Empty Gardenby ~PianoWizzy

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Empty Garden - Elton John - from Jump Up! - 1982

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So once again listening to Elton John classics, this song came up and I had an urge to draw it out. An empty, deserted garden off to the side of a set of stairs of an apartment building in the city, with a few fading pieces of the crop that used to grow there. The red carpet on the bleached pavement resembles fame, fortune, all that eventually lead to the good man John Lennon's assassination.

He was a good man who wished for peace [although he did not know how, other than through music], and in his honor, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the very next morning from the incident, wrote this song:

What happened here
As the New York sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there

Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what's it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk
nothing grows no more

Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out to play

And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he'd have said that roots grow stronger
if only he could hear

Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out to play

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out to play
Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden
Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden
Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden
Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden

[link] - [Grooveshark]

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I don't own Elton John. Sadly. Nor Bernie Taupin's lyrics. Nor John Lennon. Yeesh, I'm in a serious lack of major celebrities here, aren't I?