[Verse 1]
I had a vision in the chapel:
Flame flickered on your forehead like an apple
When the morning came
I was enthralled by your movement

[Pre-Chorus]
But I was scared, I wrote a letter
To articulate my thoughts a little better
When the time came for speaking my mind
It was gone

[Chorus]
The garden's overgrown!
Is the fact of the matter
And now it's just a field behind the house
Where the creepers kinda swallow the light

Where you wait for a talking snake
For a calendar date—
Something you can rely on
You can steady the scale with my heart in a pail if I'm wrong

[Verse 2]
When I was young and not a cynic
I felt a gravity beyond the city limits
Out in the violent heart
I couldn't start to explain it

[Pre-Chorus]
But all my lovers turn to friends
And I'm in London singing 'If It Be Your Will' again
When the time came for speaking my mind
It was gone

[Chorus]
The garden's overgrown!
Is the fact of the matter
And now it's just a field behind the house
Where the creepers kinda swallow the light

Where you wait for a talking snake
For a calendar date—
Something you can rely on
You can steady the scale with my heart in a pail if I'm wrong

[Bridge]
I miss my childhood house where my heart slowed down
I could take control of myself there
Since our childhood homes are apartments, though
I've been finding I don't feel it the same way, now

[Chorus]
The garden's overgrown!
Is the fact of the matter
And now it's just a field behind the house
Where the creepers kinda swallow the light

Where you wait for a talking snake
For a calendar date—
Something you can rely on
You can steady the scale with my heart in a pail if I'm wrong