Gates Of Eden-Bob Dylan/The Band

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:29.37]Of war and peace the truth just twists [00:32.58]Its curfew gull just glides [00:36.03]Upon four legged forest clouds [00:38.28]The cowboy angel rides [00:40.98]With his candle lit into the sun [00:43.83]Though its glow is waxed in black [00:47.04]All except when 'neath the trees of Eden [00:57.54]The lamppost stands with folded arms [01:00.27]Its iron claws attached [01:02.64]To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail [01:05.09]Though it shadows metal badge [01:07.41]All and all can only fall [01:10.05]With a crashing but meaningless blow [01:13.50]No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden [01:24.66]The savage soldier sticks his head in sand [01:27.39]And then complains [01:29.58]Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf [01:32.25]But still remains [01:34.11]Upon the beach where hound dogs bay [01:36.81]At ships with tattooed sails [01:39.81]Heading for the Gates of Eden [01:49.59]With a time rusted compass blade [01:52.05]Aladdin and his lamp [01:54.90]Sits with Utopian hermit monks [01:56.85]Side saddle on the Golden Calf [01:59.70]And on their promises of paradise [02:02.43]You will not hear a laugh [02:05.07]All except inside the Gates of Eden [02:15.24]Relationships of ownership [02:17.16]They whisper in the wings [02:19.77]To those condemned to act accordingly [02:21.99]And wait for succeeding kings [02:25.14]And I try to harmonize with songs [02:27.93]The lonesome sparrow sings [02:30.78]There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden [02:44.19]The motorcycle black madonna [02:46.20]Two wheeled gypsy queen [02:48.63]And her silver studded phantom cause [02:50.94]The gray flannel dwarf to scream [02:53.55]As he weeps to wicked birds of prey [02:56.31]Who pick up on his bread crumb sins [02:58.32]And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden [03:10.86]The kingdoms of Experience [03:13.23]In the precious wind they rot [03:15.72]While paupers change possessions [03:17.82]Each one wishing for what the other has got [03:21.18]And the princess and the prince [03:22.95]Discuss what's real and what is not [03:26.85]It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden [03:42.96]The foreign sun it squints upon [03:45.27]A bed that is never mine [03:47.61]As friends and other strangers [03:49.41]From their fates try to resign [03:52.23]Leaving men wholly totally free [03:55.32]To do anything they wish to do but die [03:57.66]And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden [04:10.29]At dawn my lover comes to me [04:13.50]And tells me of her dreams [04:16.95]With no attempts to shovel the glimpse [04:19.98]Into the ditch of what each one means [04:23.67]At times I think there are no words [04:27.12]But these to tell what's true [04:30.60]And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden