Secret Gardens Lyrics - Judy Collins

My grandmother's house is still there 

But it isn't the same 

A plain wooden cottage 

A patch of brown lawn 

And a fence that hangs standing 

And sighing in the Seattle rain 

I drive by with strangers 

And wish they could see what I see 

A tangle of summer birds 

Flying in sunlight 

A forest of lillies 

An orchard of apricot trees 

Secret Gardens of the heart 

Where the flowers bloom forever 

I see you shining through the night 

In the ice and snow of winter 

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Great grandfather's farm is still there 

But it isn't the same 

The barn is torn down 

And the fences are gone 

The Idaho wind blows 

The topsoil away every Spring 

I still see the ghosts 

Of the people I knew long ago 

Inside the old kitchen 

They bend and sigh 

My life passed them up 

And the world passed them by 

Secret Gardens of the heart 

Where the old stay young forever 

I see you shining through the night 

In the ice and snow of winter 

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But most of all 

It is me that has changed 

And yet I'm still the same 

That's me at the weddings 

That's me at the graves 

Dressed like the people 

Who once looked so grown-up and brave 

I look in the mirror 

Thought the eyes of the child that was me 

I see willows bending 

The season is Spring 

And the silver blue sailing birds 

Fly with the sun on their wings 

Secret Gardens of the heart 

Where dreams live on forever 

I see you shining through the night 

In the ice and snow of winter