Won't you meet me at the gates to the garden?

Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel

Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral

Through the churchyard I wandered

Sat for a spell there and I pondered

My back to the gates of the garden

My back to the gates of the garden

My back to the gates of the garden

Fugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers

Runaways and suicidal lovers

Assorted boxes of ordinary bones

Of aborted plans and sudden shattered hopes

In unlucky rows, up to the gates of the garden

In unhappy rows, up to the gates of the garden

In unlucky rows, up to the gates of the garden

Won't you meet me at the gates?

Won't you meet me at the gates?

Won't you meet me at the gates to the garden?

Beneath the creeping shadow of the tower

The bell from St.Edmunds informs me of the hour

I turn to find you waiting there for me

In sunlight and I see the way that you breathe

Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden

Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden

Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden

Leave these ancient places to the angels

Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals

And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold

For God is in this hand that I hold

As we open up the gates of the garden

Won't you meet me at the gates?

Won't you meet me at the gates?

Won't you meet me at the gates to the garden?

(Lyrics off 'No More Shall We Part', Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2001)

The official business..

Having previous experience with reading friends' blogs, but never being a "blogger" myself, I found it quite straightforward creating this blog account; the hardest part, as 'Quantum of useless' mentioned, was deciding on the name or a visual theme for my blog.

Once I settled on this, I've had fun playing with embedding gadgets, hyperlinking and trying out different graphic layouts. I look forward to finding out more about some of the other web tools that I'm less savvy with!