Fast Asleep Inside the Garden

I arrived in town a week ago with a stone around my neck

And the girls lay roses down, pretty girls lay roses down

I arrived in town a week ago with a beast upon my tracks

And he wore an iron crown, and he wore an iron crown

All my friends are fast asleep, dead to dreams as they promised not to be

Don’t tell me how it ends, I think I know, they’re out for blood and here I am alone

Fast asleep inside the garden, all my hope has taken wing

As I sing the song I don’t want to sing

As I sing the song I don’t want to sing

All my friends, they seem so weak, teeth stained red from the wine they had to drink

Don’t tell me how it ends it’s plain to see, for anyone who’s read their history

How I’d love to leave the garden but my heart is on a string

As I sing the song I don’t want to sing

And the roses that they threw upon my feet are withering

As I sing the song

As i sing the song

As I sing the song

As I sing the song

I don’t want to sing

Would you learn it, learn it for me