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Arlo Guthrie - Gates Of Eden Lyrics

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  • by Bob Dylan
  • Of war and peace the truth just twists
  • Its curfew gull it glides
  • Upon four-legged forest clouds
  • The cowboy angel rides
  • With his candle lit into the sun
  • Though it's glow is waxed in black
  • All except beneath the trees of Eden
  • The lamp post stands with folded arms
  • It's iron claws attached
  • To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
  • Through its shadow's metal badge
  • All in 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 the 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
  • The 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 hush
  • 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 kingdoms of experience
  • In the precious winds 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's 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 others, strangers
  • From their fates try to resign
  • Leaving men holy and 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 me what's true
  • There are no truths outside The Gates of Eden

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