Garden Rag
Blue skies, flowers, take away the pain
Sunshine, flowers, flying in the rain
Colors, dreamtime, have no rest
Feels good, feels right, staring at the wall
Hands closed, fists tight, watch the pebbles crawl
Colors, dreamtime, have no rest
I will eat the sky
I have made it cry
I will never know
Why the seeds inside this garden didn't grow
Springtime, starlight, nebulas appear
Oceans, alright, wash away the year
Colors, dreamtime, have no rest
I will eat the sky
I have made it cry
I will never know
Why the seeds inside this garden didn't grow
Blue skies, flowers, take away the pain
Sunshine, flowers, flying in the rain
Colors, dreamtime, have no rest
I will eat the sky
I have made it cry
I will never know
Why the seeds inside this garden didn't grow
Songfacts: Garden Rag is a part of the set of songs: "Turnbull and Screwt," "Syd," "Turnbull is Lost," this one, and "Garden Gnome." They tell the story of two garden gnomes and the witch named Syd. This song is the witch's lament that her garden didn't grow, and she's flying over the country in a sorry state.
"Rag" is a play on Indian raga, and the backing melody was one I wrote in the style of a raga using a guitar where each string is tuned to the note of D. Lou Reed called this ostrich tuning and used it for some of his early songs. There is also a tanpura drone playing in D.
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