Gates Of Eden chords by Arlo Guthrie

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Verse 1
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Of war and peace the truth just twists,
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its curfew gull it glides
Upon four legged forest clouds
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the cowboy angel rides
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With his candle lit into the sun
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though it's glow is waxed in black
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All except beneath the trees of Eden

Verse 2
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The lamp post stands with folded
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arms its iron claws attached
To curbs 'neath holes
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where babies wail
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Through its shadow's metal badge
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All in all can only fall with a crashing
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but meaningless blow
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No sound ever comes from

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Verse 3
the Gates of Eden
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The savage soldier sticks his head
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in the 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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Verse 4
The time rusted compass blade,
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Aladdin and his lamp
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
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of Eden
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Verse 5
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 the
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lonesome sparrow sings
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There are no kings inside
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the Gates of Eden

Verse 6
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The motorcycle 'Black Madonna', two-
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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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pick up  on his bread crumb sins
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And there are no sins inside

Verse 7
the Gates of Eden
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The kingdoms of experience in
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the precious winds they rot
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While paupers change possessions
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Each one wishing for what
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the other has got
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And the princess and the prince discuss
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what's real and what's not
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It doesn't matter inside

Verse 8
the Gates of Eden
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The foreign sun it squints upon
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a bed that is never mine
As friends and others,
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strangers from their fates try to resign
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Leaving men holy and totally free to do
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anything they wish to do but die
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And there are no trials

Verse 9
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