This is the song "The Garden" featured in the novel THE LAST GOOD DAY
lyrics
There’s a girl in the Garden.
Quietly she sits, watching the Earth breathe.
Gardener’s little helper. Silently taking in everything she sees.
Perhaps that’s where she learned to love another.
Perhaps that’s where she learned the golden rule.
And it all seems so simple, how she lives it.
Is it any wonder why she’d saddened by the things we don’t do?
There’s a girl who plants a flower.
All that she wants to do is share its bloom with me and you.
Though we take it all for granted, how can we be so frozen when each
Petal is an open hand?
The only reason I can thrive today
Is the garden within me remains in bloom.
All of you who journey through leave a footprint,
Plant a seed. Do not tread on me.
Nature must be nurtured, sometimes.
Beauty runs its course within my vision,
And if the well runs dry I'll know that
Once it touched my lips.
The way that we move, indeed it changes
Life in my eyes!
If I owe this to the gardener won't you thank him for me?
She grows within me.
She's so well-connected.
I can grow and I might grow and I might grow!
I have grown!
We all walk the garden, but the soil beneath us,
seems to rise to greet her footsteps.
We connect, under a gardener’s watchful eye,
and he knows,
And she knows, and we know,
That there is love-out there!
Sometimes I walk softly, and sometimes
I make noise.
Sometimes I forget that we were all once
girls and boys
And then we grew. And then we grew and
here we are.
See yourself, through someone else’s eyes tonight.
See yourself and I promise you, I promise you,
I promise you…
That this is me…
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