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The Garden Rules Lyrics
There's the river there's your house and there's the church
And there's us years ago
Deep in your garden where the nettle met the rose
Is where we'd hide ourselves
Yes we were just kids
But you couldn't tell us that
These are the garden rules
That's what you always said
Oh you'll never know how much I love you so
Oh you will never know how much I love you
You would call the garden rules out like commands
And we would all obey
But you'd stifle giddy laughter as you spoke
And puncture the pretend
Then we would chase our tails
Until the sun forgot to shine
And our parents called our names
'Til just you and I were left
Oh you'll never know how much I love you so
Oh you will never know how much I love you
From your house we walk the river
To the church by the silent fields
Amongst the lavender and headstones
And the larks in our Sunday clothes
Your father calls to you
As he's looking at his watch
You leave me with a kiss
On my quickly heating cheek
Oh you'll never know how much I love you so
Oh you will never know how much I love you
And there's us years ago
Deep in your garden where the nettle met the rose
Is where we'd hide ourselves
Yes we were just kids
But you couldn't tell us that
These are the garden rules
That's what you always said
Oh you will never know how much I love you
And we would all obey
But you'd stifle giddy laughter as you spoke
And puncture the pretend
Then we would chase our tails
Until the sun forgot to shine
And our parents called our names
'Til just you and I were left
Oh you will never know how much I love you
To the church by the silent fields
Amongst the lavender and headstones
And the larks in our Sunday clothes
Your father calls to you
As he's looking at his watch
You leave me with a kiss
On my quickly heating cheek
Oh you will never know how much I love you
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"Deep in your garden where the nettle met the rose"
That is obviously a metaphor for sex.
No. (Nor is it suicide or drugs). The song is about an innocent first love of youth.
No. (Nor is it suicide or drugs). The song is about an innocent first love of youth.
Obviously it literally means at the end of the garden (yard), just beyond the cultivated area in the bushes. If there's a metaphoric sense to it, the narrator is a nettle to the girl's rose.
Obviously it literally means at the end of the garden (yard), just beyond the cultivated area in the bushes. If there's a metaphoric sense to it, the narrator is a nettle to the girl's rose.