Blood of Eden Lyrics

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Here they are, as quoted from the CD booklet from Peter Gabriel's US album:


***BLOOD OF EDEN***

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
The heated and the holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

**
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man
**

My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance any more
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between
you and me
I do not understand

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At my request you take me in
In that tenderness I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting,
a moment of bliss

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls, of a million
unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

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In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden
We have done everything we can
In the blood of Eden
So we end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh the union of the woman, the woman and
the man

***copyright 1992, lyrics written by Peter Gabriel***

I retyped the lyrics exactly as they appear in the booklet.  The section
enclosed by two *'s above and below is the chorus (although I hate that term
and thus deliberately avoided it--or refrain, which is just as bad), and
should appear where you see this:

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So there ya go, you're welcome!

Drewcifer
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