Back Story:

"This song was directly inspired by the cemetery at the back of St Stephen's Anglican Church in Newtown, NSW, Australia which brought back vivid feelings and memories of exploring the famous Highgate Cemetery in London, England where Karl Marx, Douglas Adams and more recently George Michael have been laid to rest. Both are very old cemeteries and are overgrown and full of history and are very emotionally evocative being the exact look and feel a Hollywood movie would portray an eerie graveyard. My challenge was to write a song similar to The Beatles' Strawberry Fields where I would make an abstract interpretation of a landmark. The reference of "Spirits Having Flown" was inspired by the Bee Gees album of the same name and the "eucalyptus leaves" reference was inspired by a friend who jokes he looks like a koala."
- Joel Dobbins

Lyrics:

The look of stone and watery eyes
Sometimes I wonder if we're still alive
Let's dance and sing under the sky
Someday it will be our turn to die

Leaves of eucalyptus trees
Places where I've always somehow known
Someday you'll see we'll fly away
To the place we will call our home

A place we'll never be alone
All the spirits having flown
Right in town but now overgrown
Amongst the gardens of stone

Rest is rust we'll build our dues
Till the evening faded hues
April Fools fools no one new
Reality could strike you too

Life is such a bout of chance
When no one seems to give a chance
Of everything we can behold
Before the day when we grow old

A place we'll never be alone
All the spirits having flown
Right in town but now overgrown
Amongst the gardens of stone

Labelled so we'll always be known
Amongst the gardens of stone
This skin of mine will fade to bone
Amongst the gardens of stone

A place we'll never be alone
All the spirits having flown
Right in town but now overgrown
Amongst the gardens of stone

Amongst the gardens of stone
Amongst the gardens of stone

Equipment:

Instruments:

Yamaha EG 112 Electric Guitar