[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