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Sorry for the setback
I know I let it down
Turn back the clocks and step back
And spring might come out
My little miss forgotten
You're quite a stubborn bud
If we cant make you open
We will take it out in blood
We'll make a man out of you yet
We will plant brambles in your bed
Just close your eyes and count to ten
This is as good as it will get
And there's our little willow weeping
A flutter to your knees
They hung two things before me
Oh the possibilities
Thank you for the warning
But I still see the sun
A little global warming
Never hurt no one
We'll make a man out of you yet
A crown of thorns around your head
Get off your knees and have a look
This is as good as it will get
At last my little flower
Is getting getting put to use
You've always been a failure
But now you're bearing strange new fruit
The insides are all useless
But the rest is fertile soil
I'll take the belt from off the hook
And watch the garden grow
We'll make a man out of you yet
You won't know what will hit you next
The gardener's coming to collect
You wanted love that's what you'll get
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
I know I let it down
Turn back the clocks and step back
And spring might come out
My little miss forgotten
You're quite a stubborn bud
If we cant make you open
We will take it out in blood
We'll make a man out of you yet
We will plant brambles in your bed
Just close your eyes and count to ten
This is as good as it will get
And there's our little willow weeping
A flutter to your knees
They hung two things before me
Oh the possibilities
Thank you for the warning
But I still see the sun
A little global warming
Never hurt no one
We'll make a man out of you yet
A crown of thorns around your head
Get off your knees and have a look
This is as good as it will get
At last my little flower
Is getting getting put to use
You've always been a failure
But now you're bearing strange new fruit
The insides are all useless
But the rest is fertile soil
I'll take the belt from off the hook
And watch the garden grow
We'll make a man out of you yet
You won't know what will hit you next
The gardener's coming to collect
You wanted love that's what you'll get
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
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Gardener = Garden
Business = Profit
i think it makes sense ^_^
I love this song
I love this whole album in fact!
Never hurt no one". The garderners coming to collect part is about him collecting (taking) her virginity.
Basically, I think The Gardener is about the loss of innocence. I don't know how much sense that makes, but that's what I got out of it.
It seems like either the doctor or the parents is speaking, saying "We'll make a man out of you yet" and meaning, we're going to decide your sex for you. This is especially evident in the lines "The insides are all useless, but the rest is fertile soil. I'll take the belt from off the hook and watch the garden grow." The insides will never work the way they're supposed to because it's possible the child has either non-functioning or female organs, but they've built a working phallus and that's "as good as it will get". By the same token, the child may have a female mentality, but it was, until recently, believed that that could be beaten out of them with very harsh therapy.
"if we can't make it open, we'll take it out in blood"
like, if he can't convince this girl to have sex with him, he'll just force it.
"we will plant brambles in your bed//just close your eyes and count to ten//this is as good as it will get."
like the guy is saying 'hey, you know, you're worthless, i'm the best you can do, so just put up with it, because this is as good as it gets for you.'
"and there's our little willow weeping//a flutter to your knees"
the girl is really, really hurt by everything that's going on, and she's just depressed all the time because of it.
"thank you for the warning//but i still see the sun"
this girl is seeing/hearing everywhere that what's happening to her isn't normal, and she shouldn't put up with it, and she appreciates the concern, but, at the same time, she still secretly thinks her guy's a good guy and wants to stay with him.
"the insides are all useless, but the rest is fertile soil"
this is how her lover sees her...her insides [thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc.] are completely pointless to him, and he just doesn't care...but she's physically attractive [or fertile soil]
so yeah...just a thought...
although, i do have to say i sort of wish this song wasn't recorded because it comes out better live.
people do bad things (trash the earth/set horrible examples), others follow (also live wastefully/neglect to develop an individuality and just follow the horrible examples being set on tv), everything is desecrated (the earth is fucked up/america is fucked up), the people doing the desecrating are ignorant and don't care/realize and they ignore the wise warnings (people ignore proof of global warming and deny it/people refuse to admit that this generation of children is turning into a bunch of stupid kids who sit around listening to rap and shopping at hollister and have no plan for the future), and then everyone is made to suffer (the polar icecaps melt and flood the earth/america fails because 90% of the population consists of usless, vapid pieces of trash)
"the insides are all useless, but the rest is fertile"
--the resources are depleted, but things look okay/ the kids' minds and hearts and souls are empty, but they look hot
"the gardener's coming to collect"
--disaster is coming; what you've asked for is here