Garden Of Eden Lyrics
And the east coast got the blues
It's a mass of confusion
Like the lies they sell to you
You got a glass jawed toothache
Of a mental disease
An they be runnin' round back
See 'em line up on their knees
'Cause the kiss ass sycophants
Throwin' penance at your feet
When they got nowhere to go
Watch 'em come in off the streets
While they're bangin' out front
Inside they're slammin' to the crunch
Go on an throw me to the lions
And the whole damn screamin' bunch
'Cause the pissed-off rip-offs
'R' everywhere you turn
Tell me how a generation's
ever s'posed to learn
This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll
I read it on a wall
It went straight to my head
It said "Dance to the tension
Of a world on edge"
We got racial violence
and who'll cast the first stone
And sex is used anyway it can be
Sometimes when I look out
It's so hard to see the day
It's a feelin' you can have it
It's not mine to take away
Lost in the Garden of Eden
Said we're lost in the Garden of Eden
And there's no one's gonna believe this
But we're lost in the Garden of Eden
This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll
Suck on that
Looking through this point of view
There's no way I'm gonna fit in
Don't ya tell me what my eyes see
Don't ya tell me who to believe in
I ain't superstitious
But I know when something's wrong
I've been draggin' my heels
with a bitch called hope
Let the undercurrent drag me along
Lost in the Garden of Eden
Said we're lost in the Garden of Eden
And there's no one's gonna believe this
But we're lost in the Garden of Eden
Most organized religions make
a mockery of humanity
Our goverments are dangerous
and out of control
The Garden of Eden is just another graveyard
Said if they had someone to buy it
Said I'm sure they'd sell my soul
This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll
Lost in the Garden of Eden
(An we ain't talkin' about no
poison apple or some missin' rib ya hear)
Said we're lost in the Garden of Eden
Said there's no one's gonna believe this
Said we're lost in the Garden of Eden
This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll

This song is one of my favorite of all time, mainly because of its amazing lyrics.
Garden Of Eden is all about criticism of the system as it works, manipulating people with religion and entertainment to prevent them from revolting against oppression. In this sense, I would link it with Peace Sells from Megadeth. Axl expresses that society is sick, it does not work functionally ("mental disease","world on edge" etc). Because changing what's wrong with it would cost the greedy leaders their powers, they refuse to acknowledge the truth and lie about the real situation ("syncophants", "lies their sell to you"). Because people are feeling something is wrong ("the east coast got the blues"), they try to distract them from political issues with religion, medias and drugs. The "it's not a problem you solve; it's rock n' roll" line actually reckons that rock n roll and its lifestyle (that GNR embodied at the time) by superficially relieving people from their everyday life problem encourages them to do nothing. The medias are hypocritical, when everybody feels angry about their place in society ("we've got racial violence" refers to racism and gang problems while "sex is used anyway it can be" is about rape and religious rejection of sexuality ), they ask to dance it away. The Organized Religions, working like companies motivated only by greed and power ("if they had someone to buy it they'd sure try to sell my soul") and helping the gov to control people, encourages passive behavior and imposes its outdated version of reality ("we're lost in the Garden of Eden", we can't escape the religious moral, but it doesn't convince people that much because "it's just another graveyard"). Those last lines actually sound pretty nietzschian to me, God and faith are dead and you have to replace it with something new, the christian set of rules and morality must be destroyed ("we're not talking about no golden apple or some missing rib, you hear?") and replaced by something new.

Hate this song, way to fast. Seems to put down religion tho it's hard to tell what it's about until you pick through the lyrics. For me it's Guns N Roses worst song.

Total kick ass song, videos great and i can sing along to ALMOST all of it!

I like this song the video is v. funny. But i don't know what the lyrics mean.

this is a great song....i love listening to it...it gets me pumped and the video is awesome.. GN'R kicked major ass when they were still around. (well the ORIGINAL gn'r members)

Dude velvet revolver rule. saw them on the 18th jan. Fuckin rocked!

Yeah i saw Velvet Revolver a few days ago...Fuckin awesome...Probably the best concert I have ever been to..

This may be a stupidly fast song, but it's a good stupidly fast song. Still the meaning eludes me

I do not know what it means but the song is great.

The video with dizzy being a complete fucker in the background makes me laugh! lol The words at the bottom of the screen...LOL