Ralph McTell – Michael In The Garden (Guitar)

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Out In The Garden, amongst the bushes, Michael is crying.

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Caught in a spider's web, its broken wings beating, a butterfly dying.

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Oh la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

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And they in their wisdom say

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"Michael's got something wrong, wrong, wrong with his mind".

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Well they must be blind, if they can't see what Michael sees.

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Michael is silent, talking to no one of things that he sees.

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But out in the garden, he talks in soft whispers, like the wind in the leaves.

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Oh la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

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And they in their wisdom say

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"Michael's got something wrong, wrong, wrong with his mind".

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They've seen the signs, but they can't see what Michael sees.

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And inside the building someone is calling his name through the halls.

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But he doesn't answer, though he easily hears each leaf as it falls.

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Oh la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

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And they in their wisdom say

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"Michael's got something wrong, wrong, wrong with his mind".

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Well they must be blind, for they can't see what Michael sees.

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Michael where are you ? Michael where are we,

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We who see that there's something wrong with your mind?

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And inside the garden Michael is smiling, at peace in his world.

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At one with the insects, the flowers, and the trees, and the wind and the birds.

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Oh la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

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Oh Michael sees all Behind the high walls

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Surrounding his kingdom, Whilst we in our wisdom

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Still trapped in the spider's web. Far from the flow and ebb

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Of life in the garden   But Michael has pardoned

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Us for he sees   That really he's free

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And there's nothing to mend   For his wings are not broken

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And they in their wisdom say

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"Michael's got something wrong, wrong, wrong with his mind".

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They've seen the signs, but Michael feels fine inside the garden.