Gates Of Eden

[00:01.07]Gates Of Eden - Bob Dylan

[00:04.20]Of war and peace the truth just twists

[00:08.26]Its curfew gull just glides

[00:14.07]Upon four-legged forest clouds

[00:18.14]The cowboy angel rides

[00:23.94]With his candle lit into the sun

[00:28.20]Though its glow is waxed in black

[00:34.46]All except when neath the trees of eden

[00:44.15]The lamppost stands with folded arms

[00:48.27]Its iron claws attached

[00:54.15]To curbs neath holes where babies wail

[00:58.09]Though it shadows metal badge

[01:02.52]All and all can only fall

[01:06.34]With a crashing but meaningless blow

[01:12.21]No sound ever comes from the gates of eden

[01:21.96]The savage soldier sticks his head in sand

[01:27.15]And then complains

[01:31.73]Unto the shoeless hunter whos gone deaf

[01:36.85]But still remains

[01:39.92]Upon the beach where hound dogs bay

[01:43.98]At ships with tattooed sails

[01:49.98]Heading for the gates of eden

[01:59.35]With a time-rusted compass blade

[02:03.48]Aladdin and his lamp

[02:09.60]Sits with utopian hermit monks

[02:13.29]Side saddle on the golden calf

[02:17.04]And on their promises of paradise

[02:20.79]You will not hear a laugh

[02:26.79]All except inside the gates of eden

[02:36.41]Relationships of ownership

[02:40.10]They whisper in the wings

[02:45.91]To those condemned to act accordingly

[02:49.66]And wait for succeeding kings

[02:53.47]And I try to harmonize with songs

[02:57.54]The lonesome sparrow sings

[03:02.85]There are no kings inside the gates of eden

[03:13.47]The motorcycle black madonna

[03:17.29]Two-wheeled gypsy queen

[03:22.47]And her silver-studded phantom cause

[03:26.47]The gray flannel dwarf to scream

[03:30.04]As he weeps to wicked birds of prey

[03:34.04]Who pick up on his bread crumb sins

[03:39.12]And there are no sins inside the gates of eden

[03:49.62]The kingdoms of experience

[03:53.31]In the precious wind they rot

[03:58.93]While paupers change possessions

[04:02.19]Each one wishing for what the other has got

[04:06.43]And the princess and the prince

[04:09.06]Discuss whats real and what is not

[04:15.62]It doesnt matter inside the gates of eden

[04:25.89]The foreign sun it squints upon

[04:29.70]A bed that is never mine

[04:35.33]As friends and other strangers

[04:38.39]From their fates try to resign

[04:42.76]Leaving men wholly totally free

[04:46.33]To do anything they wish to do but die

[04:52.64]And there are no trials inside the gates of eden

[05:03.14]At dawn my lover comes to me

[05:06.70]And tells me of her dreams

[05:12.58]With no attempts to shovel the glimpse

[05:16.01]Into the ditch of what each one means

[05:19.95]At times I think there are no words

[05:23.45]But these to tell whats true

[05:29.14]And there are no truths outside the gates of eden