“The Garden”
It’s a very special song for us.
It’s a spiritual love song.
A love song written in heaven, played on earth.
This song has every aspect of mankind/God relationship.
Destiny, hope, sin, rebellion, life, death, love, repentance, forgiveness, and eternity.
Even though it does not necessarily sound like a typical Christian song (or a typical love song), we believe it’s a song about salvation.
It’s a song about falling in love, falling from heaven, and salvation by grace.
When we made the video for this song, we wondered how we could portrait this complicated love story sung on it.
We could use some actor and actress, but we chose to do it with our own band members, to show you the story of this song with personal messages.
You can understand the story in various ways. Why did he have to shoot the gun? What does it mean? Who is this lady in white dress?
Yes we did these things because they were cool and we tried to make things dramatic. But when all things were done, we realized that it was a story about salvation. This lady in white (Marie) is playing a sort of Joan Of Arc role. It symbolizes the salvation by Christ and faith in God. As a result, the band members who were walking like a funeral in the opening part, now they are smiling in the ending part and walking in the light.
Video Direction: Tak Nakamine
Video Shooting and Editing: Shinichi Ohara (photoshin.com)
The Lyrics
Remember the day I met you
The day I broke the law
The day I broke in to the garden
You were there
Little did we know our destiny
Was everything planned by the one high above
Everything stopped
Moon hid in the cloud
Just two of us
With no words to say
Ohh I will be a rebel
Wild wolves in the woods
I will fight the giants for you
I will kill the gods for you
Oh fallen angel, will you choose to grow with me
Will you live a life with me
Will you choose to grow old, wither (weather) and die
And when everything’s done can we meet up again in the garden
In the garden
All the promises that I made
You knew they would all be true, didn’t you
I won’t regret
I won’t regret no matter what happens to us
So can you sing the song again
Oh fallen angel, will you choose to grow with me
Will you live a life with me
Will you choose to grow old, wither and die
And when everything’s done can we meet up again in the garden
In the garden
We are going to the garden, the place we used to know
Everyone is there, everything we loved about it
They are waiting for us
Where the Light reigns and Love spreads
Almost made me cry! Beautiful video and music. I’m blown away. And after reading the lyrics… now I’m really blown away.