Clever - An Orchard they Outgrew (Official Lyric Video)

Описание: Official Lyric Video for
“An Orchard They Outgrew”

An Orchard They Outgrew


I kept a little orchard on the edge of where I live,
Planting seeds through every season with the little I could give.
And the ones who never watered, never showed up in the rain,
Came around when branches blossomed looking for something to gain.

They didn’t see the nights I waited
hoping roots would somehow hold,
Didn’t see the storms that broke me
til my hands were twice as old.
But they pointed at the apples
like the tree belonged to them—
Never mind the years it took me
just to teach the dirt to bend.

‘Cause everybody wants the harvest
from a field they never knew,
And they say they would’ve helped me—
but they never saw it through.
Only showing up for sweetness
when the hardest work was due…
You can’t feed a hungry stranger
from an orchard they outgrew.

I had people bring me stories
’bout the shade they never found,
Sayin’ “If I stood where you’re standing
I’d lift you from the ground.”
But they never kept a garden,
never stayed when nights got cold—
Never learned that growth takes patience,
It’s not a secret - so I’m told.

And I offered them a shovel,
but they always walked away—
Wanting me to plant their future
while they rested in the shade.
And they blamed me for the distance
that their footsteps never drew…
And then they take the day off just because the sky is blue.


I’m not bitter, I’m not selfish—
I just learned what seasons teach:
Nothing grows inside the soil
of a hand that doesn’t reach.
If you want to build a garden,
it takes more than one or two
It takes years of quiet labor
for a moment’s worth of fruit.


But everybody wants the harvest
from a field they never knew,
And they say they would’ve helped me—
but they never saw it through.
Only showing up for sweetness
when the hardest work was due…
You can’t feed a hungry stranger
from an orchard they outgrew.