The Rhyme of the Elder - Memory Garden

Leave me alone

Between my walls of stone

I would travel away from me

Trapped in a jar — can’t get free

Goodbye and don’t you ever follow

Another day goes by, a mist in grey so shallow

So safe in the youth

Grow older and get the bitter taste in your mouth

Life, oh life, where did you fly?

Were my dreams all set to high?

Life, oh life, where did you fly?

Were my dreams all set to high?

Light of the so treasured life

The curtain of youth will fall

And now enter this sleeping old hall

Where time is a carving sharp knife

For so long I’ve been awake

Hopefully death won’t forsake

And lay my wining body to sleep

A quire will cradle me deep

Life, oh life, where did you fly?

Were my dreams all set to high?

Life, oh life, where did you fly?

Were my dreams all set to high?

All set to high, all set to high?