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Of war and peace the truth just twists
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It's curfew gull it glides
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Upon four-legged forest clouds
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The cowboy angel rides
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With his candle cradled into the sun
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Though its glow is waxed in black
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All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
 
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The lamppost stands with folded arms
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It's iron claws attached
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To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
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Though it shadows metal badge
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All and all can only fall
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With a crashing but meaningless blow
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And no sound at all comes from the Gates of Eden
 
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The savage soldier sticks his head
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In sand and then complains
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Unto the shoeless hunter who's
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Gone deaf but still remains
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Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
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At ships with tattooed sails
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Heading for the Gates of Eden
 
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With a time-rusted compass blade
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Aladdin and his lamp
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Sits with Utopian hermit monks
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Side saddle on the Golden Calf
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And on their promises of paradise
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You will not hear a laugh
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All except inside the Gates of Eden
 
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Relationships of ownership
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They whisper in the wings
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To those condemned to act accordingly
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And wait for succeeding kings
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And I try to harmonize with songs
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The lonesome sparrow sings
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There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
 
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The motorcycle black Madonna
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Two-wheeled gypsy queen
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And her silver-studded phantom cause
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The gray flannel dwarf to scream
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As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
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Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
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And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
 
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The kingdoms of experience
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In the precious winds they rot
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While paupers change possessions
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Each one wishing for what the other has got
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And the princess and the prince
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Discuss what's real and what is not
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It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden
 
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The foreign sun, it squints upon
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A bed that is never mine
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As friends and other strangers
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From their fates try to resign
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Leaving men wholly totally free
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To do anything they wish to do but die
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And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden
 
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At dawn my lover comes to me
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And tells me of her dreams
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With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
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Into the ditch of what each one means
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At times I think there are no words
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But these to tell what's true
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And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden