Secret Gardens-Judy Collins

[ti:Secret Gardens] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Voices] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Secret Gardens - Judy Collins [02:46.05]My grandmother's house is still there [02:49.16] [02:50.46]But it isn't the same [02:51.74] [02:53.84]A plain wooden cottage [02:55.30] [02:56.43]A patch of brown lawn [02:58.05] [02:59.05]And a fence that hangs standing [03:01.54]And sighing in the Seattle rain [03:05.20] [03:07.57]I drive by with strangers [03:09.07] [03:10.21]And wish they could see what I see [03:13.14] [03:15.44]A tangle of summer birds [03:17.72]Flying in sunlight [03:18.99] [03:20.23]A forest of lillies [03:21.94]An orchard of apricot trees [03:24.54] [03:26.04]Secret Gardens of the heart [03:29.97] [03:32.53]Where the flowers bloom forever [03:35.09] [03:36.41]I see you shining through the night [03:40.22] [03:42.03]In the ice and snow of winter [03:46.87] [03:59.38]Great grandfather's farm is still there [04:02.71] [04:04.01]But it isn't the same [04:05.45] [04:07.37]The barn is torn down [04:09.33]And the fences are gone [04:11.39] [04:12.71]The Idaho wind blows [04:15.23]The topsoil away every spring [04:17.96] [04:20.16]I still see the ghosts [04:21.53] [04:22.35]Of the people I knew long ago [04:25.56] [04:27.50]Inside the old kitchen [04:29.40] [04:30.45]They bend and they sigh [04:32.04] [04:33.43]My life passed them up [04:35.22] [04:35.98]And the world in this way passed them by [04:39.32] [04:40.84]Secret Gardens of the heart [04:44.59] [04:46.82]Where the old stay young forever [04:49.58] [04:50.89]I see you shining through the night [04:54.94] [04:56.45]In the ice and snow of winter [05:02.13] [05:16.18]But most of all [05:17.23] [05:18.92]It is me that has changed [05:20.50] [05:21.84]And yet still I'm the same [05:24.52] [05:26.87]That's me at the weddings [05:28.49] [05:29.19]That's me at the graves [05:31.45] [05:33.46]Dressed like the people [05:34.87]Who once looked so grown up and brave [05:38.55] [05:40.92]I look in the mirror [05:42.69]Throught the eyes of the child that was me [05:46.65] [05:48.57]I see willows bending [05:50.06] [05:50.60]The season is spring [05:52.28] [05:53.72]And the silver blue sailing birds [05:56.02]Fly with the sun on their wings [05:58.95] [06:00.21]Secret Gardens of the heart [06:04.33] [06:06.88]Where dreams live on forever [06:09.65] [06:10.97]I see you shining through the night [06:14.88] [06:16.47]In the ice and snow of winter