Name: The Garden
Duration: P00H03M41S
Description: The first single from the album "Still Life" out early 2022.

The Garden

from The Garden ~ Hollow Moon by Oli Spleen

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The first single from the album "Still Life" out early 2022.

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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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from The Garden ~ Hollow Moon, released June 1, 2021
By Oli Spleen and Mishkin Fitzgerald

Lyrics and vocals by Oli Spleen

Recorded and mixed by Mishkin and Garry at The Nest Studios Brighton

Musical arrangement by Birdeatsbaby -

Mishkin Fitzgerald
Garry Mitchell
Hana Maria
Anna Mylee

Mastered by Robert Macciochi at Subvert Central Mastering
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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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