Lyrics
[soft piano intro]
[verse]
Now the meadows shine with all the summer's flowers
Now bees are buzzing, and birds are singing everywhere
Now the wind brushes through the high treetops
But in my garden, it's withered, dark, and cold
[verse]
Here it's scruffy and overgrown, ugly and tangled
And just as hopelessly dull and gray as in my chest
Out there, it smells of all the summer's scents
There, it is summer, but in here, it is autumn
[piano instrumental]
[verse]
I lived happily here with you and my cats
A life in sin and without concern for salvation
Reconciled with my character, for I have never
Been able to say no to anything at all
[verse]
And never denied myself this or that
And lived life until I was shattered one day
It started with you cheating on me with another
One you said was much finer than I
[emotional instrumental]
[verse]
Our quarrel lasted weeks, the cries mixed with tears
And I was thoroughly compared to your fine friend
Until you confessed that he had left you with child
Then it became deathly silent here in the garden again!
[bridge build-up]
From that moment, that man was doubly hated
He had played with you, with us, for a little while
And I, I felt as if I too was rejected
I wanted to fight, and faced the defeat of my life
[guitar instrumental]
[bridge drop]
I had the hammer ready under my jacket
When he came out in a silk scarf and said: Good day
Come in and sit for a while, so we can talk
I just stammered, now I don't remember what
[pause, fade]
[drum]
[verse]
And I was offered cognac and cigars
And couldn't bring myself to say no
And when we parted, we were best friends and buddies
And I took things you had forgotten home to you
[build-up]
[haunted verse]
I walk around in my Pompeii, among ruins
I tread around in the remnants of our life
But you shall never give me jabs about money
And never shall you be another's pastime
[outro]
No, to the old we shall bind beautiful wreaths
And take our life and my cats as they are
And despite all the lack of love and tattered edges
I will love you for life, you I hold dear!
[long fade out]
[bridge drop]
I had the hammer ready under my jacket
When he came out in a silk scarf and said: Good day
Come in and sit for a while, so we can talk
I just stammered, now I don't remember what
[pause]
[drum]
[verse]
And I was offered cognac and cigars
And couldn't bring myself to say no
And when we parted, we were best friends and buddies
And I took things you had forgotten home to you
[build-up]
[haunted verse]
I walk around in my Pompeii, among ruins
I tread around in the remnants of our life
But you shall never give me jabs about money
And never shall you be another's pastime
[outro]
No, to the old we shall bind beautiful wreaths
And take our life and my cats as they are
And despite all the lack of love and tattered edges
I will love you for life, you I hold dear!
[long fade out]
[end]
I will love you for life, you I hold dear!
[electric guitar solo]
[fade out]
[end]
