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The Garden
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Once I dreamed of a garden
Whose fountains brimmed with wine
Whose emerald hills and pastures rolled
With fruit on every vine
Whose swans were white as ivory
Whose harvests ripe and sweet
For all around these beauteous grounds
Exquisite things to eat
With the wine came inspiration
And the food enriched my soul
A great future stretched before me
And I ran and reached each goal
And my soul was high on dreaming
And my heart knew only love
A great future stretched before me
And the sky was bright above
But now the soil is poisoned
The fountains swim with blood
And the swans necks lay all broken
Among the rotting food
And the sky is thick with darkness
And the plants know only night
And have wilted in the winter
At the dying of the light
For my soul is cold and wretched
And my heart knows only hate
It has hardened to a boulder
Of a tremendous weight
Now the poison’s my addiction
I have frightened all my friends
My soul was once a garden
But all summers have to end
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Hollow Moon
05:00
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I gaze upon a hollow moon
And doubt all I held dear
A dark cloud is descending
And this world is filled with fear
We’re set adrift upon a sea
Of everybody else
And who of us knows how to play
The cards that we’ve been dealt
So could it be this is the flood
These are the final days
We dredge the remnants from the mud
Of what hope may remain
The failings of the fathers
Soon will suffocate our sons
Oh let the deluge wash and cleanse
The earth of all we’ve done
What have we done
The hate and fears of all the years
Spread like a blood disease
Hate to divide and conquer
Fear to bring us to our knees
No end to this creeping terror
People fighting fear with fear
No finest hour, just gravest error
All hope slowly disappears
As we manifest this misery
And make all hell break loose
Oh lead me to the hanging tree
And fasten round the noose
We manifest this misery
Oh take me to the hanging tree
I gaze upon a hollow moon
I gaze upon a hollow moon
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Oli Spleen Brighton, UK
A solo artist since 2012, Oli Spleen started making music way back in 2003 with his first band The Flesh Happening.
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