In The Garden

Album: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (1986)
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  • The fields are always wet with rain
    After a summer shower
    When I saw you standin'
    Standin' in the garden
    Standin' in the garden, misty
    Misty wet with rain
    Wet with rain

    He wiped the, He wiped the teardrops
    Out your eyes in sorrow
    Yes, we watched the petals fall
    Down to the ground
    And then I sat beside you, I felt this great sadness
    In the garden

    And then
    And then, and then, and then, and then, and then
    And then, and then, and then, one day
    You came back home
    You seem to be in rapture
    You had the key to your soul
    And you did open that day
    When you came back to the garden

    The summer, summer breeze was blowin'
    Against your face
    The light was shinin' on your countenance divine
    You were a violet colour
    As you sat beside your father and your mother
    In the garden

    And within the silence
    Within the silence, I
    Treasured your summery words
    Shiver from my neck down to my spine
    Ignited me in daylight
    In daylight and nature, in the garden
    (Yeah)

    And I turned to you and I said this
    "No guru, no method, no teacher"
    You and I, and nature
    And the Father, and the Son
    And the Holy Ghost
    Sat down in the garden, in the garden
    Wet with rain (wet with rain)
    (Say it again, one more time)
    Goes like this

    No guru, no method, no teacher
    You and I, and nature
    And the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost
    In-in-in the garden
    That's wet with rain (wet with rain)
    And it's in the midnight hour
    In the midnight hour

    No guru, no method, no teacher
    Don't be afraid
    No guru, no method, no teacher (to the Holy guardian angel)
    (I will pray)
    No guru, no method, no teacher (to the Holy guardian angel in the midnight hour)

    Help me, angel
    Help me, pray
    Holy guardian angel (to your Holy guardian angel)
    I will pray
    Holy guardian angel (to your Holy guardian angel)
    At the end of the day
    (To your Holy guardian angel) Holy guardian angel
    Yeah, a midnight hour (midnight hour)
    (What we say?)

    No guru, no method, no teacher
    No guru, no method, no teacher
    No guru, no method, no teacher
    In the garden
    Yeah, the midnight

    Big claps for the band
    Big claps for the band

    No guru, no method, no teacher (Van Morrison)
    No guru, no method, no teacher
    No guru, no method, no teacher
    In the midnight hour
    Thank God for the band, thank you Writer/s: Van Morrison
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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Comments: 3

  • Earls Court 94 from Londonlondon...as with everything Morrison if you have to ask then you have never felt it....and unfortunately probably now never will...
    .but at least you asked and that's half way home.
    First time I heard VM, was on a beach with R&R Americans taking a break from war, they knew it was all about that moment in time as is this man's music..
    Tauro 72.
    K.
  • Bill from Pensacola, Fl"In gardens all wet with rain" see (and listen to) Sweet Thing" 1968. (Van Morrison...
  • Malachi from Dublin, Ireland'No Guru, No Method, No Teacher. Just you and I and nature, and the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.' This particular song where these lyrics appear, amazingly parallel the 'celbration' segment in William P. Young's novel,"The Shack!" The song was recorded long before the book ever came out--to my knowledge-- but I can't help but see the similiarities between the two.
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