The Byrds - Mind Gardens

Once upon a time...
There was a garden
On a high hill
Green and blossomin' round

Against the sea
And there the sun came
And the rain pourin' down
Garden grew

And flourished
And splattered bits of color on the ground
And it took shape
And symmetry

And all of life around
But there came winds
Driven and howling
There came snow

And I feared for the garden
So I built a wall
And I built another
And roofed it over

Thick and strong
And kept it from the slings and arrows
Of outrageous fortune
The killing cold could not get in

But when the sun came
And the gentle rain of spring
They could not reach the garden
Behind those walls

It would have died,
Safely, securely, died...
But as I longed
And as I learned
I tore the walls all down
The garden still lives...