Garden City

I woke up feeling like a failure
Like there's nothing worth redeeming in my bones
Yesterday was everything I love to do
And still, I woke up feeling like a failure, alone

And my window looks over a garden
But these days all the weeds are overgrown
Yesterday I saw them laying flowers in the dirt
They'll be dead before the winter comes along

And I try to take my time
But it's not easy when you're living in a lie
That the measure of a child
Is just how much he has to give to his father

And I don't wanna waste my life
But for every single second that goes by
It seems like everyone but me
Is doing better, making more, and going further

And last night I woke up from a nightmare
I was living in a city full of thieves
And we stole the things we wanted
'Til we thought we had enough
But then we always wanted one last thing

See, no one ever tried to plant a garden
In the middle of a city full of weeds
'Cause it would never see the light
Would hardly live before it died
And you'd be burying the fruit before the seed

And I try to take my time
But it's not easy when you're living in a lie
That the measure of a child
Is just how far he's living now from where he started

And I don't wanna waste my life
But for every single second that goes by
It seems like everyone but me
Is doing better, making more, and going farther

And I think I'll try and plant a garden
But I don't have the measure or the means
To ever know the end from where I started
To tell apart the flower from the seed

Someday I'll move into a city
Where the streets aren't made of gold, they're growing green
And the king will know my name
And we'll remember all the days
I felt that garden city grow inside of me