[Verse 1] I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane And though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet again The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirror I read his name and it was plainly written Nathan La Franeer [Pre-Chorus 1] I asked him would he hurry But we crawled the canyons slowly Through the buyers and the sellers Through the burglar bells and the wishing wells [Chorus 1] With gangs and girly shows The ghostly garden grows [Verse 2] The cars and buses bustled through the bedlam of the day I looked through window glass at streets and Nathan grumbled at the grey I saw an aging cripple selling Superman balloons The city grated through chrome-plate, the clock struck slowly half-past-noon [Pre-Chorus 2] Through the tunnel tiled and turning Into daylight once again I am escaping Once again goodbye To symphonies and dirty trees [Chorus 2] With parks and plastic clothes The ghostly garden grows [Verse 3] He asked me for a dollar more, he cursed me to my face He hated everyone who paid to ride and share his common space I picked my bags up from the curb and stumbled to the door Another man reached out his hand, another hand reached out for more [Pre-Chorus 3] And I filled it full of silver And I left the fingers counting And the sky goes on forever Without meter maids and peace parades [Chorus 3] You feed it all your woes The ghostly garden grows You feed it all your woes The ghostly garden grows