Hanging Gardens

歌詞

In the gardens perched on the sky The ones where snakes sing lullabies I met a man who spoke to me A dead man hanging from a tree He craned his neck and whispered this "Perfection is the great abyss Leave now lest you share my fate A ghost dangling at heaven's gate" Why should I fear paradise? I lived free of mortal vice So I trudged on past the sycamores And stood before the pearly doors Through the bars I saw the fields The stars mere cogs in ox cart wheels The earth a pebble in a stream But not one human to be seen Undeterred I gripped the latch I pulled but it came unattached Despite my rage, the gates stood firm Then grew so hot I smelled flesh burn I ran back injurted to the groves And washed my wounds in waterfalls As I bathed I heard the groans Of voices wrapped in funeral pall Count leaves dangling from a branch Thus numbered bodies overhead Specters moaning for another chance To escape the orchard of the dead An empty noose caressed my neck The way my first love had A soothing feeling on my neck To forget the good and bad To forget the ones who hurt you To forget the ones you hurt To forget the hate all men accrue When their feet still touch the dirt