Gardening at Night

Album: Eponymous (1982)
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  • I see your money on the floor I felt the pocket change
    Though all the feelings that broke through that door
    Just didn't seem to be too real
    The yard is nothing but a fence the sun just hurts my eyes
    Somewhere it must be time for penitence
    Gardening at night, it's never worth

    Gardening at night
    Gardening at night
    Gardening at night

    The neighbors go to bed at ten
    Call the prayer line for a change
    The charge is changing every month
    They said it couldn't be arranged

    We ankled up the garbage sound, but they were busy in the rows
    We fell up, not to see the sun, gardening at night just didn't grow
    I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change
    Though all the feelings that broke through that door
    Just didn't seem to be too real

    Gardening at night
    Gardening at night
    Gardening at night

    Your sister said that you're too young
    They should know they've been there twice
    The call was two and fifty one
    They said it couldn't be arranged

    I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change
    Though all the feelings that broke through that door
    Just didn't seem to be too real
    We echoed up the garbage sound, but they were busy in the rows
    We fell up not to see the sun, gardening at night just didn't grow

    Gardening at night
    Gardening at night
    Gardening at night Writer/s: Bill Berry, Michael Mills, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Stephen Edward from St. PetersburgIf it weren’t for Michael and Morrissey, as a confused religiously raised, often moving, as a family, confused young man going to hair school while they built a new freeway, they saved my life. God bless you for keeping this, now old man, reminiscing over the lyrics that made me feel relevant
  • Bill from Austin, TxAt an after show party in 1983, Mike Mills told me that gardening at night was an euphemism for taking a roadside piss, so I can confirm Berry's origin story for the song.
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