Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Skeletal Garden, artist - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows. Album song La Chambre D'echo, in the genre
Date of issue: 06.11.2008
Record label: Apocalyptic Vision
Song language: English
The Skeletal Garden |
Obsessed with the fear of losing his mind, |
he soon couldn’t take care of himself anymore. |
He had no friends or relatives to look after him, |
only once a week some male nurse dropped in. |
He was found in this bed, dehydrated…- |
unconscious, as he was, they brought him to a different place. |
«We have never heard of him since…» |
He lived alone in his house for most of his life, |
and I wouldn’t be surprised, |
if he had died the same day they put him in a room |
with people he’d never seen before. |
He had a wild garden behind his house…- |
so beautiful and dark. |
Woodpeckers and squirrels lived there, |
and hedgehogs, mice and martens. |
Hazelnut-trees and wild strawberries grew, |
and cherries, apples and pears, and currents of red and black…- |
all hidden in this private place. |
In the safety of the shadows the fragile fern slept, |
along the winding paths the wild-flowers wept, |
snowdrops nodded their little heads in spring, |
forget-me-nots, and all kind of things, |
of which I do not know the names… |
And, of course, there was ivy everywhere. |
It happened the same week they took him away |
workers hacked down all the trees in the garden…- |
hired by the envious people outside… who had always been terrified |
by the beauty that enchanted this place, |
and the darkness it was breathing. |
Yet, none of them could keep the dead birds from singing… |