A ballad combining eerie and haunting images with powerful dramatic phrasing.

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We all create a kind of "garden" for ourselves - a secure and safe existence. But when we find that someone we thought we knew well turns out to be a stranger, then our perfect "garden" takes on new, sinister elements of insecurity and doubt.

STRANGER IN MY GARDEN

Verse 1
I see all the faces now
Reflected in the dewy flowers,
Grinning from their palace full of mirrors.
It's easier to walk away
And live to fight another day
Than sit beside the jokers and the sinners.

Chorus
There's a stranger in my garden
Turning morning into night,
If I'd only known the shadows could tell me
As much as the light...
Oh Stranger in my garden.

Verse 2
Whispering through twisted trees
A rumour on a restless breeze,
Footsteps on the path of least resistance.
Entwined beneath the ground I tread,
Entanglements and broken threads
Are lying there and question my existence.

Rpt chorus

Bridge
Now I know it's time to say goodbye
You're a stranger, you're a stranger
Gonna walk away.

Rpt chorus.

© Rodrica Rudge 2006