Letra de Garden Of Lavender
Was on a flight home from—well, it doesn't matter Eleven hours, a million thoughts were gathered And my mind kept racing to my garden of lavender I wanted to get to them so they wouldn't die When I got home, they were dry as weed While the vines wrapped around them B-horror film green I'm not sure what my lavender symbolized But inside my heart cried And my heart is drawn to the small [?] within That I can't help but to give my focus and attention and care Cause they shut off and [?] hijack my brain Help to tune out what [?] can cause me pain And I care for the animals that gather 'round my yard And my sister's children and I care for my garden I'm swarmed upon by bumblebees And yellow jackets and wasps and hornets that dart out and stingI see the big orange tabby cat Getting warm on the [?] He turns over on his back Looking for a belly rub I see the deer trap And the snow on the end of the path That leads into my backyard I hear the sound of my girlfriend's car Coming up the driveway and it fills my heart With joy Though I know it'll all end someday And someone else will be sleeping in my mountain house Wondering who lived here before Just like I sometimes do Though I've never really cared to explore I see the chocolate and peanut butter cat I look at him and he looks back I snap my fingers and blow him a kiss He rubs his head against my hand and we reminisce I walk downtown and see the Christmas lights Along the highway and how they shine And I'm reminded of when I was a child How happy I felt when I opened the box and saw a guitar insideWas on a flight to somewhere that I can't remember I feel like I lived so many lives, I can't put it all together Dordrecht, Holland, yeah that was it I had a nice dinner with a concert promoter and his Korean wife, Soo-Young Kim He dropped me off at an old spooky hotel I felt like an old man in a castle looking over at the canal Then I went and I played for a crowd but my heart wasn't there I came back to my room and I slouched in my bed Still stewing about my dried up lavender Then I fell asleep in the dark dead night And I dreamed of a blue jay digging up a seed And pass it to another's beak Watched him soar to another branch Then a possum [?] trash can Then I woke up one rainy morning in Dordrecht, Holland And I got on my flight for London, EnglandThen I took a cab from Heathrow right to Westfield Mall in Shepherd's Bush Where I bought a raincoat, then checked into the K West Hotel And ate at a Polish restaurant down the street I played the next night at Shepherd's Bush Empire Neil Halstead and his band were opening, their soundcheck sounded great As I watched, I remembered playing with Mojave 3 in the mid-'90s One of the shows being at CMJ in New York And I remembered seeing them open for Gomez in Madrid in 1998 I was with my girlfriend Marina but I somehow managed to sneak in an unforgettable kiss with Rachel backstage One of those kisses that you'll take to your grave Gomez knew I was there, and they played "Grace Cathedral Park" that night and I got pretty choked up listening to them So anyhow, I played my show at Shepherd's Bush that night and a fan heckled me asking if I really hated Nels Cline I explained that I didn't, that his name just rhymed with one word or the other After the show, I left with my agent, Ned, and his wife, and Alicia, and we talked for a bit And I walked back to the K West with my guitar and got into my bed, called my girlfriend and fell asleep