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Blood of Eden Lyrics
[Verse 1: Peter Gabriel]
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
The heated and the holy
Oh, they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying
[Chorus: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O'Connor]
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
[Verse 2: Peter Gabriel]
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
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
The heated and the holy
Oh, they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying
[Chorus: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O'Connor]
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
[Verse 2: Peter Gabriel]
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
[Chorus: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O'Connor]
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
[Bridge: Peter Gabriel]
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
[Verse 3: Peter Gabriel]
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
[Chorus: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O'Connor]
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
In the blood of Eden, lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden, lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden, we have done everything we can
In the blood of Eden, so we 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
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
[Bridge: Peter Gabriel]
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
[Verse 3: Peter Gabriel]
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
[Chorus: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O'Connor]
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
In the blood of Eden, lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden, lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden, we have done everything we can
In the blood of Eden, so we 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
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Genius Annotation
“Blood of Eden” was the third single from Peter’s 1992 album Us and featured featuring backing vocals by Sinéad O'Connor.
The song had originally appeared in the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World (1991) but was not included on the official soundtrack.
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Featuring
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Writer
Recording Engineer
Mixing Engineer
Additional Mixing
Additional Programming
Guitar
Violin
Background Vocals
Keyboards
Vocals
Synth Bass
Programmer
Doudouk
Twelve-string Guitar
Bass
Recorded At
Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England; Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana; Studio 2000, Dakar, Senegal
Release Date
April 3, 1993
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