Garden City

I woke up feeling like a failure
 Like there's nothing worth redeeming in my bones
 Yesterday was everything I love to do
 And still, I woke up feeling like a failure, alone
 And my window looks over a garden
 But these days all the weeds are overgrown
 Yesterday I saw them laying flowers in the dirt
 They'll be dead before the winter comes along
 And I try to take my time
 But it's not easy when you're living in a lie
 That the measure of a child
 Is just how much he has to give to his father
 And I don't wanna waste my life
 But for every single second that goes by
 It seems like everyone but me
 Is doing better, making more, and going further
 And last night I woke up from a nightmare
 I was living in a city full of thieves
 And we stole the things we wanted
 'Til we thought we had enough
 But then we always wanted one last thing
 See, no one ever tried to plant a garden
 In the middle of a city full of weeds
 'Cause it would never see the light
 Would hardly live before it died
 And you'd be burying the fruit before the seed
 And I try to take my time
 But it's not easy when you're living in a lie
 That the measure of a child
 Is just how far he's living now from where he started
 And I don't wanna waste my life
 But for every single second that goes by
 It seems like everyone but me
 Is doing better, making more, and going farther
 And I think I'll try and plant a garden
 But I don't have the measure or the means
 To ever know the end from where I started
 To tell apart the flower from the seed
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 Someday I'll move into a city
 Where the streets aren't made of gold, they're growing green
 And the king will know my name
 And we'll remember all the days
 I felt that garden city grow inside of me