Procol Harum Lyrics

Album: Procol Harum

She Wandered Through The Garden Fence Lyrics

(Brooker / Reid) 

She wandered through the garden fence 

and said, 'I've brought at great expense 

a potion guaranteed to bring 

relief from all your suffering.' 

And though I said, 'You don't exist,' 

she grasped me firmly by the wrist 

and threw me down upon my back 

and strapped me to her torture rack 

And, without further argument 

I found my mind was also bent 

upon a course so devious 

it only made my torment worse 

She said, 'I see you cannot speak 

is it your voice that is too weak? 

Is it your tongue that is to blame? 

Maybe you cannot speak for shame. 

Or has your brain been idle too, 

and now it will not think for you?' 

I hastened to make my reply 

but found that I could only lie 

And like a fool I believed myself 

and thought I was somebody else 

But she could see what I was then 

and left me on my own again