MIND GARDENS
As recorded by The Byrds
(From the 1967 Album YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY) hit once and let ring



[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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 Once upon a time there was a garden   on a high hill
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Green and bluffin' 'round against the sea
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And there the sun came
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And the rain pourin' down
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Garden grew and flourished
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And splattered bits of color on the ground
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And it took shape and symmetry and all of life around


[Verse 2]
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But there came winds, driven and howling
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There came snow and I feared for the garden
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So I built a wall and I built another
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And roofed it over thick and strong
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And kept it from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
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The killing cold could not get in


[Verse 3]
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But when the sun came
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And the gentle rain of spring
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They could not reach the garden behind those walls
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It would have died
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Safely, securely, died
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But as I longed and as I learned
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I tore the walls all down
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The garden still lives
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The garden lives