Secret Gardens

[Verse 1]

My grandmother's house is still there

But it isn't the same

A plain wooden cottage

A patch of brown lawn

And a fence that hangs bending and sighing

In the Seattle rain

[Verse 2]

I drive past the strangers

And wish they could see what I see

A tangle of summer birds

Flying in sunlight

A forest of lilies

An orchard of apricot trees

[Chorus]

Secret gardens of the heart

Where the flowers bloom forever

I see you shining through the night

In the ice and snow of winter

[Verse 3]

Great-grandfather's house is still there

But it isn't the same

The barn is torn down

And the fences are gone

The Idaho wind blows

The topsoil away every spring

[Verse 4]

I still see the ghosts

Of the people I knew long ago

Inside the old kitchen

They bend and they sigh

My life passed them up

And the world in its way passed them by

[Chorus]

Secret gardens of the heart

Where the old stay young forever

I see you shining through the night

In the ice and snow of winter

[Verse 5]

But most of all, it is me who has changed

But I'm still the same

That's me at the weddings

That's me at the graves

Dressed like the people

Who once looked so grown-up and brave

[Verse 6]

I look in the mirror

Through the eyes of the child that was me

And I see willows bending

The season is spring

The silver blue sailing birds

Fly with the sun on their wings

[Chorus]

Secret gardens of the heart

Where the dreams live on forever

See you shining through the night

In the ice and snow of winter

Secret gardens of the heart

Where the flowers bloom forever

I see you shining through the night

In the ice and snow of winter