Mara - Jack Garratt

I came to be here in the garden

I came to walk alone

To hear the quiet conversation

Between my footsteps and the stone

I came to find some self-acceptance

I came searching for my truth

But something’s telling me to go where

It’s far too dark to look

Oh, I can see you Mara

I see you standing there

You’re with me in the dark

I hear you questions in the air

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

You have come here in the silence, uh

In the breath between the ring

The storm distorts the garden’s beauty

And leaves me wondering again

Distracting you is not the answer

If the question you relay

Is not how to design something

But why build it anyway?

Oh, I can see you Mara

I see you standing there

You’re with me in the dark

Your questions working through air

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Have you come here weak and hungry

To feed upon the scraps?

Do you sit patient in the bushes

Waiting to attack?

But I won’t stop my feet in anger, no

Or beat upon my chest

Instead I ask that you allow me

To talk with you instead

Oh, I can see you Mara

I see you standing there

You’re with me in the dark

Your questions working through air

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?

Oh, Mara, why do you stand there?