Come To My Garden

Minnie Riperton Come To My Garden Lyrics
1.Les Fleur

(c. stepney - r. rudolph)

Will somebody wear me to the fair?
Will a lady pin me in her hair?
Will a child find me by a stream?
Kiss my petals and weave me through a dream.

For all of these simple things and much more a flower was born
It blooms to spread love and joy faith and hope to people
forlorn

Inside every man lives the seed of a flower
If he looks within he finds beauty and power

Ring all the bells sing and tell the people that be everywhere
that the flower has come
Light up the sky with your prayers of gladness and rejoice for
the darkness is gone
Throw off your fears let your heart beat freely at the sign that
a new time is born


2.Completeness

(c. stepney - j. johnson)

You are my completeness beloved
Every breath of you is my life
Rill me with your own lover's magic
Make me know that i am alive

I need you, my love
Complete me, my love
Be tender, my love
I need you, my love

Live in rapture, loving, needing, teasing, pleasing, sharing,
caring
Waken me, my love; cherish me, my love
I belong to you

Tender moments with you enchant me
Kiss me, make my world fade away
Love me as i want you to love me
Make the night melt into day


3.Come To My Garden

(r. rudolph)

Come to my garden let the stars fill your eyes
Come to my garden and walk with me
Come to my garden no more dreams filled with cries
Come to my garden please

I'll take your hand and lead you from these bad times
I'll take your breath and give you mine
I'll take your hand and lead you where the truth lies
I'll take you with me now

You know you've lived here all your nights; all your days
You know you've lived here inside my mind
You know you'll stay here for this you've lived all your life
You know you'll stay right here


4.Memory Band

(c. stepney)

Sail out of the dawn glide past the day
Drift into the mist float far away
Lift up the latch
Squeaks of the past, dull lighted patch
Sail sideways to morning backwards till noon

Climb into your head, look where you dare
Sit on every snowflake kissing air
Roam deep in the canyons beyond time
Reach through every curtain clouding mind

Greet each blinking dot before your eyes
Weep with tender rose petals sighs
Slip under the crack beneath your door
Stepl over the line where sky meets shore


5.Rainy Day In Centerville

(c. stepney - r. rudolph)

Sitting all alone i hear the tapping of the rain
Dance ballerina dance
Talking with the rain in some small city i feel the pain,
She's dancing all alone
Thinking how we'd wait together
Sitting by the fire in weather just like this
Playing lovers' games; hoping the rain would never end
And i thought about the night we met
How the gentle rain fell down, kissed the ground
Then i knew no one ever could take your place

Nothing seems the same but the falling rain
You've gone away
Walking by the sea; sitting beneath a tree;
You are not here..


6.Close Your Eyes And Remember

(c. stepney - r. rudolph)

Blowing softly through a meadow
Laughing like a baby, breeze tapping
Lightly at the treetops, whispering among the leaves

You hear the magic song, that ancient poets sing
It's sweet as morning dew and sounds a lot like springtime
When you close your eyes
You feel your heat go there
So close your eyes and you may find that
Fireflies were as bright as stars;
Close your eyes and remember
Summertime lingered on and on
Close your eyes and remember
Your first love made the world stand still
Close your eyes and remember
Close your eyes and remembers when
The moon was made of cheese

Racing swiftly through the mountains
Bubbling along the stream
Sighing sweetly through the hollow
Gentle as an infant's dream


7.Oh, By The Way

(c. stepney - r. rudolph)

Only in the time it takes to tell you
For not to tell, but to know is wrong
Only in the time it takes to want you
I've known it all by myself to long
Only in the time it takes to tease you
Don't be dismayed by my subtle ways
Only in the time it takes to kiss you
I've wasted so may precious days
I've known too long
This can't go on

Now that i have found a way it's up to me
Oh, by the way
Oh, by the way
Oh, by the way


8.Expecting

(c. stepney - j. stocklin)

She is thinking of the year, sixteen,
Sixteen
She is taking down her thoughts, reflecting,
Expecting
She is musing on her autumn, her dreams,
Her dreams
She is making up her mind, expecting,
Expecting
She is certain that she likes his schemes,
His schemes
She is waiting in the woods, expecting
Expecting


9.Only When I'm Dreaming

(c. stepney - s. barnes)

Birds sing out of tune, songs with no refrain
Nested in purple trees, nothing seems to rhyme

Only when i'm dreaming
Is there harmony and meaning
Only when i'm dreaming of you

Empty hour glass; running out of time
Yesterday is here
Now will never pass

Only when i'm dreaming
Is there harmony and meaning
I am only dreaming when i'm deeper in the arms
The arms of love
The arms of love

Birds are now in tune
Since i'm with you
Songs have sweet refrain
Since i'm with you


10.Whenever, Wherever

(c. stepney - r. johnson)

I'm flying high about the clouds
Wherever we choose to be
A barren land becomes a paradise,
Your touch is all that i need
Whenever we are, wherever we are

Never, ever say you don't love me truly
Whenever, however, wherever
For as long as you live be faithful to me
Forever, whenever, wherever
Whenever, however, wherever

How my days are passing differently
When i'm with you the universe has no mystery
The reasons clear, for you are here
Your love colors my days
Whenever we are, wherever we are