Lyrics to
The Garden

This version of The Garden was released by Carly Simon in 1971.

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Come into the garden, It’s magical trees
Dapple the sun as they sway with each lazy breeze;
They’ll set your mind at ease.

Pretend you’re a child, with nothing to hide,
Then we’ll join hands and let the universe swing wide;
We’ll lay our fears aside

Hold me, here we can soon be born again
Trust me, believe we can still be born again
We’ve been sleeping all our lives,
Atleast we can open our eyes.

Our gates are unguarded, I’ve stolen the key,
To where everything holy inside us is free to run free;
To smell and taste and touch and see.

Hold me, here we can soon be born again.
Trust me, believe we can still be born again.
We’ve been sleeping all our lives,
At last we can open our eyes.

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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides The Garden. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and The Garden by Carly Simon

The lyrics to The Garden are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Carly Simon used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to The Garden have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Carly Simon and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Garden by Carly Simon. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Garden" means the words set to the music of The Garden, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Garden and the lyrics to The Garden are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Garden, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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