[ti:Gates Of Eden(Live Album Version)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Bootleg Volume 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gates of Eden (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964) - Bob Dylan [00:19.13]Of war and peace the truth and twists [00:22.38]Its curfew gull just glides [00:25.90] [00:29.63]Upon four-legged forest clouds [00:33.13] [00:34.03]The cowboy angel rides [00:36.10] [00:39.96]With his candle lit into the sun [00:42.80] [00:44.36]Though its glow is waxed in black [00:47.11] [00:51.34]All except when 'neath the trees of Eden [00:55.31] [01:01.54]The lamppost stands with folded arms [01:05.10] [01:06.04]Its iron claws attached [01:07.77] [01:12.42]To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail [01:15.37] [01:16.36]Though it shadows metal badge [01:18.51] [01:20.98]All and all can only fall [01:23.88] [01:25.22]With a crashing but meaningless blow [01:27.39] [01:31.89]No sound ever comes [01:33.63] [01:34.32]From the Gates of Eden [01:36.01] [01:42.55]The savage soldier sticks his head [01:45.98] [01:46.60]In sand [01:47.20] [01:47.83]And then complains [01:48.69] [01:53.05]Unto the shoeless hunter [01:54.66] [01:55.34]Who's gone deaf [01:57.06] [01:57.90]But still remains [01:58.87] [02:01.44]Upon the beach [02:02.31] [02:03.10]Where hound dogs bay [02:04.62] [02:05.55]At ships with tattooed sails [02:07.19] [02:12.46]Heading for the Gates of Eden [02:14.46] [02:25.12]With a time-rusted compass blade [02:28.08] [02:29.32]Aladdin and his lamp [02:31.35] [02:35.90]Sits with Utopian hermit monks [02:39.27] [02:39.92]Sidesaddle on the Golden Calf [02:42.29] [02:44.18]And on their promises of paradise [02:46.42] [02:48.23]You will not hear a laugh [02:50.06] [02:56.72]All except inside the Gates of Eden [03:00.95] [03:10.88]Relationships of ownership [03:13.14] [03:14.75]They whisper in the wings [03:16.81] [03:25.20]To those condemned to act accordingly [03:27.99] [03:29.56]And wait for succeeding kings [03:32.10] [03:36.31]And I try to harmonize with songs [03:39.31] [03:41.10]The lonesome sparrow sings [03:42.72] [03:48.27]There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden [03:52.01] [03:58.41]The motorcycle black madonna [04:01.28] [04:02.44]Two-wheeled gypsy queen [04:04.25] [04:08.27]And her silver-studded phantom cause [04:11.12] [04:12.43]The gray flannel dwarf to scream [04:14.52] [04:18.33]As he weeps to wicked birds of prey [04:21.61] [04:22.75]Who pick up on his bread crumb sins [04:25.60] [04:31.12]And there are no sins [04:32.66] [04:33.18]Inside the Gates of Eden [04:35.37] [04:47.63]The kingdoms of Experience [04:49.45] [04:51.58]In the precious wind they rot [04:54.60] [05:02.14]As paupers change possessions [05:04.10] [05:05.66]Each one wishing for [05:07.33] [05:07.90]What the other has got [05:09.14] [05:18.50]And the princess and the prince [05:20.77] [05:21.59]Discuss what's real and what is not [05:24.90] [05:29.08]It doesn't matter [05:30.81]Inside the Gates of Eden [05:33.00] [05:43.81]The foreign sun it squints upon [05:46.32] [05:47.29]A bed that is never mine [05:49.24] [05:57.67]As friends and other strangers [05:59.93] [06:00.97]From their fates try to resign [06:04.11] [06:08.11]Leaving men wholly totally free [06:11.22] [06:12.69]To do anything they wish to do but die [06:15.47] [06:21.11]And there are no trials [06:22.37] [06:23.14]Inside the Gates of Eden [06:25.10] [06:35.71]At dawn my lover comes to me [06:38.88] [06:39.88]And tells me of her dreams [06:42.19] [06:47.49]With no attempts to shovel the glimpse [06:50.80] [06:51.68]Into the ditch of what each one means [06:54.49] [06:59.22]At times I think there are no words [07:01.56] [07:02.58]But these to tell what's true [07:05.61] [07:10.95]For there are no truths [07:12.46] [07:13.21]Outside the Gates of Eden