Backyard Garden

Hot water on cold skin I caught you looking for their silhouettes
Hold me down now and button my coat
It's cold outside and I've got nothing to show but
Into the night now I can hear the lights
Buzzing like soft rain that falls on the rooftops
Where I sit with all that I am
To watch the birds come home

Morning time I held you up to the light and
The light it shown through then you ran up the trellis and
Back to your room where you hid in the stacks now of papers and booze I'm watching them bloom
The flowers in the garden they bear your name
I talk to them sometimes but they ain't sane
I'm watching the rain clouds tumble and fold
Out of the distance and into my hold and now

Look where I stand
And now whispers and I ran

When you looked into the trees did you see something that I couldn't see
With its roots running
Down to the ground may they hold you all swallowed in earth now and keep you
So out to the garden so follow me darling
Let me show you these flowers they're out in the garden
So walk down your trellis and out to the garden
Let me show you these flowers they're out in the garden

But love me darling like you did in the winter
I swear to you now that I ain't the sinner
Love me now that bones are thinner
And I'll speak with the tongue when your eyes are bitter
Look at me now do these eyes look dimmer
It must be all the lights and all the liquor
This waters sheen won't shimmer

Backyard garden love
Will you tell me when is gone too far
Backyard garden love
Will you say when we've lost the start

Backyard garden love
I can see it in your bitter eyes
Backyard garden love
Will you tell me when we've gone too far

Backyard garden love
You see it in those bitter eyes
Backyard garden love
Will you tell me when we've gone too far

Backyard garden love
I see it in those bitter eyes
Backyard garden love
Will you tell me when I've gone too far