Mind Gardens [alternate Version] Lyrics - Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds

Once upon a time 

There was a garden on a high hill 

Standin' green and blossomin' against the sea 

And there the sun came and the rain pourin' down 

The garden grew and splattered bits of color on the ground 

And took shape and symmetry all around 

There came winds, driven and howling 

There came snow 

And I feared for the garden, so I built a wall 

And another, roofed it over 

Thick and strong 

I kept it from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune 

But when the sun came and the gentle rain of spring 

They could not find the garden behind those walls 

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It would have died safely, securely died 

But as I watched and as I learned 

I tore the walls down, the garden still lives 

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