ELTON JOHN - Empty Garden lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album jump up<br><br>What happened here<br>As the new york sunset disappeared<br>I found an empty garden among the flagstones there<br>Who lived here<br>He must have been a gardener that cared a lot<br>Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop<br>And now it all looks strange<br>It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain<br><br>And what's it for<br>This little empty garden by the brownstone door<br>And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more<br>Who lived here<br>He must have been a gardener that cared a lot<br>Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop<br>And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed<br>A gardener like that one no one can replace<br><br>And I've been knocking but no one answers<br>And I've been knocking most all the day<br>Oh and I've been calling oh hey hey johnny<br>Can't you come out to play<br><br>And through their tears<br>Some say he farmed his best in younger years<br>But he'd have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear<br>Who lived there<br>He must have been a gardener that cared a lot<br>Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop<br>Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls<br>We hear, we hear your name<br><br>Johnny can't you come out to play in your empty garden