Blood Of Eden

Peter Gabriel

   
1. I caught sight of my reflection
   I caught it in the window
   I saw the darkness in my heart
   I saw the signs of my undoing
   They had been there from the start
   And the darkness still has work to do
   The knotted chord's untying
   They're heated and they're holy
   Oh they're sitting there on high
   So secure with everything they're buying

   
R1: In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    With the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man
    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    We wanted the union
    Oh the union of the woman
    The woman and the man


2. My grip is surely slipping
   I think I've lost my hold
   Yes, I think I've lost my hold
   I cannot get insurance anymore
   They don't take credit, only gold
   Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
   You hold so tightly in your hand                                                 
   And all the while the distance 
   grows between you and me
   I do not understand

R1: In the blood of Eden...
   
*: At my request, you take me in
   In that tenderness, I am floating away
   No certainty, nothing to rely on
   Holding still
   For a moment
   What a moment this is
   Oh for a moment of forgetting
   A moment of bliss
   Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


3. I can hear the distant thunder
   Of a million unheard souls
   Of a million unheard souls
   Watch each one reach for creature comfort
   For the filling of their holes

R1: In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    With the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man
    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    We wanted the union
    Of the woman and the man

R2: In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    I feel man in the woman
    And the woman in the man  (2x)

R1: In the blood of Eden
    We've done everything we can
    In the blood of Eden
    Saw the end as we began
    With the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man
    It was all for the union 
    Oh, the union of the woman,          
    the woman and the man.