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Lyrics for Gates of Eden by Bob Dylan:
| | | Artist: | Bob Dylan |
| | Album: | Bringing It All Back Home | | Track: | Gates of Eden | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 154 | | | | Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just
glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into
the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when 'neath the trees of
Eden
The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs
'neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge
All and all can only
fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of
Eden
The savage soldier sticks his head in sand
And then complains
Unto the
shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
But still remains
Upon the beach where hound dogs
bay
At ships with tattooed sails
Heading for the Gates of Eden
With a
time-rusted compass blade
Aladdin and his lamp
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
Side
saddle on the Golden Calf
And on their promises of paradise
You will not hear a
laugh
All except inside the Gates of Eden
Relationships of ownership
They
whisper in the wings
To those condemned to act accordingly
And wait for succeeding
kings
And I try to harmonize with songs
The lonesome sparrow sings
There are no kings
inside the Gates of Eden
The motorcycle black madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy
queen
And her silver-studded phantom cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
As he
weeps to wicked birds of prey
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
And there are no sins
inside the Gates of Eden
The kingdoms of Experience
In the precious wind they
rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And
the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside
the Gates of Eden
The foreign sun, it squints upon
A bed that is never mine
As
friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly, totally
free
To do anything they wish to do but die
And there are no trials inside the Gates of
Eden
At dawn my lover comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts
to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no
words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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