Garden

Just pretend you live upstairs
you have your own life
and just pretend you live next door
you have your own life too

and just pretend we could see each other
just when it worked
just when we went
to the garden

its different now
were all grown up
you live in london
you got a lovely man and baby
and #2 on the way
and you clare
live in melbourne
not married but settled with him
and you both talk of coming
back to the home country some day

and i imagine how that could be
we could love and help each other
share clothes and chores and other things
remember mother together

and our brother he would come and stay
and papa he could come too
on a still day walks by the ocean
where grandpa
and the italians
used to go fishing

and i could look after the babes
when you needed time out
we could massage each other
grow our own vegies
the plot here is huge wild abundant

and i imagine how that could be
to love and help each other
share clothes and chores and other things
remember mother together

just pretend you live upstairs
you live next door
just pretend we could see each other
whenever we went to the garden..