The Good Gardener (On How He Fell) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A]
[D]Here sits a once

[Verse 1]
good gardener,
pale as a shadow of a doubt,
[G]Once a happy [A]dweller of a garden [G]good,
once a sleepy sin[A]ner,[G]
Once cast [Bm]out[A]
To [D]the sea where the crossy- eyed maids murmur low,
"do you see, do you see
Where the doubts cross his shadow?"
[G]Drowned and amoral,
I pollinate the coral and reek of the deep
Where I've tended the [Bm]water weed -
I was [A]once your good gardener,
[D]sin[Bm]g to bri[A]ng on Spr[D]ing,
I know where your [G]good grass [A]grows,
I know what your [G]boyfriend [Bm]knows,
I was your [A]good gardener.

[Verse 2]
[D]I[Dsus4]
[G]saw[D] twilight car
waxers, corpulent dog walkers,
Clean canny couples on
the sunset strip,
From a [G]tower forty miles to the east of Augusta
saw a plague on the Indian
A'coming on a windship,
[D]You were in the garden when
the wind swept up
And took the foul words from your mouth
Now you [G]know what your sarcasm
really really means
It's the tearing with your teeth of the
flesh from the bones of your [Bm]brother -
Kill [A]the shrub to

[Verse 3]
fertilise the [D]flower,
Did I [Bm]hear you [A]saying that the
form doesn't [D]matter?
Well [Bm]form into [A]matter, the matter is [G]forever,
but [Bm]only in [A]a good garden

[Interlude 1]
[A][Bm][A][D]

[Verse 4]
[D]Black rock bound in the Brighton bowl
where the seas of desolation roll,
Where you're [G]borne and borne
And borne in again to the pebble-
feather shore of forgotten friends
Think how you [D]can't see the science
without seeing first the self,
But then nobody thinks of
growing somebody else,
And how the sun[G], hungry sun,
holds the withered withered world,
So why shouldn't I [A]kiss
[G]the[Bm] beautiful girl?
When I was [A]her

[Verse 5]
good garden[D]er.
[Bm]Sing of the Sum[A]mer [D]sham,[G]
[Bm]O see them grow [A]tall,
see them in [D]their rot,
[Bm]See them go [A]to seed in t[D]he cemetery plot
[G]I w[A]as your good gardene[D]r

[Verse 6]
[Bm]Sing to [A]bring on [D]Spring[Dsus4]
O [G]ice of [A]Winter would crackle and [D]splinter
with [Bm]my lo[G]ve in ev[A]erything[D]
[Bm]Ice of W[A]inter would crackle and splinter
[D]with [G]my love in [A]everything[D]
[Bm]I wa[A]s your good gardener...

[Verse 7]
[Bm]The [A]sea [D]is[Dsus4] stark and[D] l[G]ovel[A]y,[D]
[Bm]and it scares me to the [A]point of [D]rapture
[Bm]I was yo[A]ur good gardener,[D]
of [Bm]some [A]good sta[D]ture
[Bm]The sea [A]is stark and [D]lovely,
[Bm]and it scares me to [A]the point of [D]rapture
[Bm]I was yo[A]ur good gardener,
[D]now I [Bm]- ca[G]n barely -[A] look at ya[D]

[Outro 1]
[D][Bm][G][Bm][G][D]