Gates of Eden - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
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 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 just 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, sidesaddle 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 upon his bread crumb sins
There are no sins 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 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
But there are no truths outside the gates of Eden
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 just 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, sidesaddle 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 upon his bread crumb sins
There are no sins 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 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
But there are no truths outside the gates of Eden
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Dylan
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
- The Times They Are A-Changin' - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- Spanish Harlem Incident - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- To Ramona - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- Who Killed Davey Moore? - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- Gates of Eden - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night) - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
- Mr. Tambourine Man - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964
All Album Tracks: The Bootleg Volume 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall >
Altri album
- The Complete Budokan 1978 (Live)
- The Man in Me (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan - March 1, 1978)
- Mixing Up The Medicine / A Retrospective
- Shadow Kingdom
- Watching the River Flow (From 'Shadow Kingdom')
- Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (Deluxe Edition)
- Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17
- Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix - from The Bootleg Series Vol. 17)
- Love Sick (Version 2)
- Savage Young Years
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.