The Garden

By Joe DeVito

Released on June 25, 2025

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I saw rainbows

And you saw rain

We danced between them

'Til they became one in the same

I saw the garden

You saw the tree

I bit the apple, you bit me

And in those old times

How we would lay

I saw a fire

You saw the sun at breaking day

I chose the embers

You chose the stars

You got a sunburn, I got charred

Pain in looking back is just a heartbreak fever

I saw soldiers all attack

Upon love's lone unbelievers

We watched missiles in the sky

I saw a war

You saw the Fourth of July

And in every corner now, in every room

I see your ghost still

And every bud opon its bloom

I'm thinking life is but a guessing game of cards

Unmarked, and shuffled in doom

And in the whistling of every mouth

I hear a melody with spring and buds

And summertime down South

I see the forest

Oh, I see the sea inside your eyes, you just see me

And death came so swiftly upon our grace

No one could lift me from the fire of your face

I saw a family, you saw a chain

I cupped my hands and drank rain

And I sang come out all ye sinners

And all those sinners came

I saw Demeter in the distance, dancing joyous in the rain

I saw the back end of a train to California

You left home, and I remained

And now the ink is on the page

And all those moments far away

Two sailing strangers in the ocean, drifting farther fron the bay

I saw the garden

I saw the garden