[ti:Gates of Eden (Live at Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK - May 1965)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Live 1962-1966 - Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gates of Eden (Live at Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK - May 1965) - Bob Dylan [00:06.08]Lyricist:Bob Dylan [00:12.17]Composer:Bob Dylan [00:18.26]Of war and peace the truth just twists [00:21.82]It's curfew gull it glides [00:33.64]Upon four-legged forest clouds [00:37.30]The cowboy angel rides [00:42.94]With his candle lit into the sun [00:46.57]Though its glow is waxed in black [00:54.90]All except when 'neath the trees of Eden [01:08.60]The lamppost stands with folded arms [01:11.79]It's iron claws attached [01:17.91]To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail [01:21.92]Though it shadows metal badge [01:28.02]All and all can only fall [01:31.18]With a crashing but meaningless blow [01:38.95]No sound at all comes from the Gates of Eden [01:51.30]The savage soldier sticks his head in sand [01:55.35]And then complains [01:58.47]Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf [02:02.68]But still remains [02:05.74]Upon the beach where hound dogs bay [02:09.31]At ships with tattooed sails [02:17.75]Heading for the Gates of Eden [02:30.07]With a time-rusted compass blade [02:33.86]Aladdin and his lamp [02:37.60]Sits with Utopian hermit monks [02:40.53]Side saddle on the Golden Calf [02:44.30]And on their promises of paradise [02:48.03]You will not hear a laugh [02:55.99]All except inside the Gates of Eden [03:09.93]Relationships of ownership [03:13.31]They whisper in the wings [03:18.98]To those condemned to act accordingly [03:22.33]And wait for succeeding kings [03:26.20]And I try to harmonize with songs [03:30.11]The lonesome sparrow sings [03:37.55]There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden [03:53.74]The motorcycle black Madonna [03:57.51]Two-wheeled gypsy queen [04:02.96]And her silver-studded phantom cause [04:06.62]The gray flannel dwarf to scream [04:10.14]As he weeps to wicked birds of prey [04:13.79]Who pick up on his bread crumb sins [04:21.87]And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden [04:36.32]The kingdoms of experience [04:39.72]In the precious winds they rot [04:46.47]While paupers change possessions [04:49.67]Each one wishing for what the other has got [04:53.71]And the princess and the prince [04:55.99]Discuss what's real and what is not [05:05.32]It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden [05:19.85]The foreign sun it squints upon [05:23.08]A bed that is never mine [05:29.35]As friends and other strangers [05:32.52]From their fates try to resign [05:36.85]Leaving men wholly totally free [05:40.46]To do anything they wish to do but die [05:48.52]And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden [06:03.12]At dawn my lover comes to me [06:06.42]And tells me of her dreams [06:12.71]With no attempts to shovel the glimpse [06:16.13]Into the ditch of what each one means [06:22.32]At times I think there are no words [06:26.30]But these to tell what's true [06:34.35]And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden