Roddy Frame - English Garden lyrics

I was on the corner, on borrowed time Waiting for the ghost inside me to be exorcised With the day it died and all the ways we tried and cast aside Came down for some air, I figured I'd find out what's inside Up in town she's looking in the mirror, seeing her best side Oh city lights, let tears she cried be done and dried See the swans on the Test Sailing by like life's a breeze You were the best Hurts to know it and it hurts to doubt it And there's nothing I can do about it Guess we're gonna have to live without it Used to be mine, I played while she sang Said someday we'd drive to Daymer Bay and walk along the sand Now in every room a different sorrow hangs And the past is like another place, it's a foreign land And still the river flows And the day will still begin And the flowers bloom in rows The way it's always been