[ti:Gates Of Eden] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Complete Album Collection Vol.1] [by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:04.040] Of war and peace the truth just twists [00:08.070] Its curfew gull just glides [00:14.200] Upon four-legged forest clouds [00:18.010] The cowboy angel rides [00:23.940] With his candle lit into the sun [00:27.940] Though its glow is waxed in black [00:34.020] All except when 'neath the trees of Eden [00:44.270] The lamppost stands with folded arms [00:48.220] Its iron claws attached [00:54.030] To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail [00:58.120] Though it shadows metal badge [01:02.980] All and all can only fall [01:05.960] With a crashing but meaningless blow [01:12.080] No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden [01:22.180] The savage soldier sticks his head in sand [01:27.140] And then complains [01:31.820] Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf [01:36.650] But still remains [01:40.250] Upon the beach where hound dogs bay [01:43.660] At ships with tattooed sails [01:49.430] Heading for the Gates of Eden [01:59.550] With a time-rusted compass blade [02:03.320] Aladdin and his lamp [02:09.590] Sits with Utopian hermit monks [02:13.410] Side saddle on the Golden Calf [02:17.120] And on their promises of paradise [02:20.510] You will not hear a laugh [02:26.750] All except inside the Gates of Eden [02:36.570] Relationships of ownership [02:40.000] They whisper in the wings [02:45.930] To those condemned to act accordingly [02:49.260] And wait for succeeding kings [02:53.710] And I try to harmonize with songs [02:56.960] The lonesome sparrow sings [03:02.570] There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden [03:13.580] The motorcycle black madonna [03:17.260] Two-wheeled gypsy queen [03:22.630] And her silver-studded phantom cause [03:26.420] The gray flannel dwarf to scream [03:30.260] As he weeps to wicked birds of prey [03:34.230] Who pick up on his bread crumb sins [03:39.410] And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden [03:49.030] The kingdoms of Experience [03:53.340] In the precious wind they rot [03:59.120] While paupers change possessions [04:02.140] Each one wishing for what the other has got [04:06.900] And the princess and the prince [04:09.280] Discuss what's real and what is not [04:15.730] It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden [04:26.110] The foreign sun, it squints upon [04:29.340] A bed that is never mine [04:35.500] As friends and other strangers [04:38.590] From their fates try to resign [04:43.150] Leaving men wholly, totally free [04:46.480] To do anything they wish to do but die [04:52.800] And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden [05:03.390] At dawn my lover comes to me [05:06.960] And tells me of her dreams [05:12.610] With no attempts to shovel the glimpse [05:16.210] Into the ditch of what each one means [05:20.270] At times I think there are no words [05:23.600] But these to tell what's true [05:29.300] And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden