====== Near a Garden ======

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[G]Near a little garden [Am]flowers wild grasses
A [C]body's in the casket,[Am] milk is in the carton
[G]Coffee's on the brew and [Am]cars quietly pass
as [C]people hear from last re[Am]spects, collective view.
The [G]face of the deceased all [Am]emptied of emotion
[C]waiting for distortions [Am]of it's perfect features.
[G]In a little clearing [Am]where they'll put the coffin
and the[C]n shuffle off and [Am]afternoon is nearing

>[G]You were once a[Am]live, b[C]ody then you d[G]ied.
>I'll sing your name with my ins[Am]trument
>but [C]one day it will leave my ha[G]nd.

[G] [Am] [D] [C]

?I'm [G]skipping like a stone just a [Am]couple skips then gone
?to the [C]bottom of a pond where [Am]sun can never go and
?[G]resting at the bottom [Am]who knows what I'll find there
?[C]no one can divine where [Am]friends go when we've lost them
?[G]movie on the plane home said "[Am]life is for the living"
?as [C]I sat slowly living, [Am]paralysed with boredom
?[G]flying through the thin air [Am]skimming over cities
?and [C]isn't it a pity [Am]why we can't grow old there.

?>[G]Doesn't it feel [Am]strange [C]to wait on this [G]change?
?>Well the pilot tips his [Am]instruments knowing
?>[C]one day they will rust upon [G]land

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