Augie March - The Good Gardener Lyrics
Here sits a once good gardener, pale as a shadow of a doubt,Once a happy dweller of a garden good, once a sleepy sinner,once cast outTo the sea where the crossy-eyed maids murmur low, "do you see, do you seewhere the doubts cross his shadow?"Drowned and amoral, I pollinate the coral and reek of the deepwhere I've tended the water weed -I was once your good gardener, sing to bring on Spring,I know where your good grass grows,I know what your boyfriend knows,I was your good gardener.I saw twilight car waxers, corpulent dog walkers, clean canny couples on the sunset strip,From a tower forty miles to the east of Augusta saw a plague on the Indiana'coming on a windship,You were in the garden when the wind swept up and took the foul words from your mouthNow you know what your sarcasm really really meansIt's the tearing with your teeth of the flesh from the bones of your brother -Kill the shrub to fertilise the flower,Did I hear you saying that the form doesn't matter?Well form into matter, the matter is forever, but only in a good gardenBlack rock bound in the Brighton bowl where the seas of desolation roll,Where you're borne and borne and borne in again to the pebble-feather shore of forgotten friendsThink how you can't see the science without seeing first the self,But then nobody thinks of growing somebody else,And how the sun , hungry sun, holds the withered withered world,So why shouldn't I kiss the beautiful girl?When I was her good gardener.Sing of the Summer sham,O see them grow tall, see them in their rot, see them go to seed in the cemetery plotI was your good gardenerSing to bring on SpringO ice of Winter would crackle and splinter with my love in everythingIce of Winter would crackle and splinter with my love in everythingI was your good gardener...The sea is stark and lovely, and it scares me to the point of raptureI was your good gardener, of some good statureThe sea is stark and lovely, and it scares me to the point of raptureI was your good gardener, now I - can barely - look at ya.
