Intro 
Gm Dm Gm Dm 

verse 1 

Gm                                 Dm 
I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane 
               Cm                                  G 
And though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet again 
     Gm                                Dm 
The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirror 
   Cm                                       G 
I read his name and it was plainly written Nathan La Franeer 
   Gm 
I asked him would he hurry 
         D 
But we crawled the canyons slowly 
             Dm 
Through the buyers and the sellers 
              C                             G    C 
Through the burglar bells and the wishing wells 
      Gm               Bb    D7 
With gangs and girly shows 
             Gm 
The ghostly garden grows 

verse 2 

     Gm                                Dm 
The cars and buses bustled thru the bedlam of the day 
                  Cm                                   G 
I looked through window-glass at streets and Nathan grumbled at the grey 
   Gm                             Dm 
I saw an aging cripple selling Superman balloons 
          Cm 
The city grated through chrome-plate 
                   G 
The clock struck slowly half-past-noon 
             Gm 
Through the tunnel tiled and turning 
      D                             Dm 
Into daylight once again I am escaping 

Once again goodbye 
        C                  G C 
To symphonies and dirty trees 
      Gm                  Bb D7 
With parks and plastic clothes 
             Gm 
The ghostly garden grows 

verse 3 

     Gm 
He asked me for a dollar more 
     Dm 
He cursed me to my face 
             Cm 
He hated everyone who paid to ride 
       G 
And share his common space 
   Gm 
I picked my bags up from the curb 
      Dm 
And stumbled to the door 
        Cm 
Another man reached out his hand 
         G 
Another hand reached out for more 
       Gm 
And I filled it full of silver 
        D 
And I left the fingers counting 
         Dm 
And the sky goes on forever 
          C                      G C 
Without meter maids and peace parades 

       Gm              Bb D7 
You feed it all your woes 
             Gm 
The ghostly garden grows 
      Gm              Bb D7 
You feed it all your woes 
             Gm 
The ghostly garden grows