Gates Of Eden Lyrics - Dylanesque - Bryan Ferry

Of war and peace, the truth just twists 

It's 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 savage soldier 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 

Alladin and his lamp 

Sits with Utopian hermit monks 

Side saddle on the golden calf 

On their promises of paradise 

You will not hear a laugh 

All except inside the gates of Eden 

Relationships of a ownership 

They whisper in the wings 

To those condemned accordingly 

To 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 

A 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 up on his bread crumb sins 

And there are no sins 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 

And there are no truths outside the gates of Eden