Donna McKevitt - The Garden Lyrics

You will not be banished from the garden
The garden will receive no more water
And it will die
It will die slowly.
You will not not leave,
You will stay and watch it die.
You will not be permitted to go and find another garden elsewhere,
I will take it from you
Flower by flower
Plant by plant
Petal by petal
Bird by bird
Leaf by leaf
Tree by tree.
You will stay in this garden forever and watch it fade.
You will see the sand which will begin to take over
You will watch the trees become ashen
You will see fires
You will see land
Nothing will be able to grow.
You will weep but your tears will not moisten this earth
Your eyelids will remain forever open
As your beloved garden is reduced to sand.
As the last tree offers up the last fruit before it too dies,
You will take it and eat it
And then only at this final moment
When you see a man hanging from the tree
Will you be set free from the garden.
You, you all walked out, you walked back in again
You all walked out, you walked back in again"