Will Cookson - The Garden lyrics

Falling asleep under an apple tree My thoughts fly away over the southern seas As the shadow of the church tower dims To the murmur of the evening hymns In another land the princess in her castle dreams Of all the other things that once upon a time she could have been She sends a prayer to the distant stars Puts her forehead on the window bars And a sliver of the moon lies sleeping on the dew As winter waits for the summer nights to darken And the ancient fountain fills from silver-threaded rills As the owl cries echo in the garden Shadows on the lawn dancing as the night wind blows Now the revellers have gone leaving us to waltz alone Through the hallways of elusive dream Until the morning takes you from me But now the sun is in the air and there's humming everywhere In the meadow gra** that soon the frost will harden And though the world's left you behind I've kept you in my mind As I lie here with the statues in your garden And the dawn is only a few hours away And when I'm gone the memory will fade away When I'm gone far away When I'm gone