[ti:the garden] [ar:lovers] [al:the gutter & the garden] [00:03.92]The Garden [00:04.71] [00:21.37]I slept next to your broken wrist and dreamt [00:28.02]I was a vine [00:32.12]That grew out of a lover's kiss and wrapped around your spine. [00:43.07]Will you stay in my life? [00:48.39]I wish we were tied together sometimes. [00:53.52]Entwined by a family wine. [00:58.51]I wish I was your sister sometimes like tonight. [01:05.18]I'd dry your eyes, [01:07.64]You'd cough and then smile [01:10.20]And say you'd be all right. [01:12.80]Will you be all right? [01:15.12]I’d trace the tattoo on the back of your neck, [01:19.79]There's a picturedrawn there of the place you left, [01:24.86]Where you cannot see it but you can forget. [01:29.84]It’s there permanently like a badge of regret. [01:36.64] [01:44.45]There’s a row of ocean shells where there should be a garden. [01:54.13]One for each whispered word you could tell me, [01:59.32]One for each secret. [02:03.76]So on shell stars in a dirt sky, [02:08.78]I wish you’d trade your secrets for mine. [02:13.69]I’d plant them and in time [02:18.09]Flowers would bloom and burst through the room where we’d lie, [02:25.11]They’d cover our eyes, [02:27.32]I’d be that vine, [02:29.76]The sun would shine in an endless springtime. [02:34.70]But for now the flower pots only hold [02:42.39]cigarette-butts. [02:43.91]There’s a headstone above the nights we talked. [02:48.58]There’s a different name whispered in your yard [02:53.33]But it sounds the same as the one you want, [03.00.50]The one you want. [03:04.70] [03:05.62]And now I feel do overwhelmed, [03:10.12]I had to sit out by myself [03:15.20]On the curb beside your house, [03:17.20]With my collar in my mouth. [03:19.93]And the feeling that I felt, [03:22.22]I had to lay them all out [03:24.68]In chalk-writing on the ground, [03:26.96]For you to step around. [03:29.40]And the rain that ends the drought [03:31.80]And would’ve let our seeds sprout [03:34.40]will just wash my words out. [03:38.95]Just wash my words out. [03:42.49]