Blood Of Eden (Peter Gabriel) -----------------------------
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Verse: ------
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
Chorus: ------- 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 the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man
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[verse] 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
[chorus] 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 the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man
Bridge: ------- 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
Oh....
[verse] 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
[chorus] 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
-- /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // What makes mass society so difficult to bear // // is not the number of people involved...but // // the fact that the world between them has lost // // its power to gather them together, to relate // // and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 // //-----------------------------------------------// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
