#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: ez003151@chip.ucdavis.edu (Chris Tapio) Blood Of Eden (Peter Gabriel) ----------------------------- (Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b. Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to djb@uk.ac.bath.maths ;^) Intro: ------ Bb, Eb Verse: ------ I caught sight of my reflection Bb Eb I caught it in the window Bb I saw the darkness in my heart Eb I saw the signs of my undoing Bb They had been there from the start Eb And the darkness still has work to do Bb The knotted chord's untying Eb The heated and the holy Bb Oh they're sitting there on high Eb So secure with everything they're buying Bb Eb Chorus: ------- In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man Ab Eb Bb Cm With the man in the woman and the woman in the man Ab Eb Bb Cm In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man Ab Eb Bb Cm We wanted the the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man Ab Eb Bb Ab/Bb Bb Fm/Bb Eb ........... Bb Eb [verse] My grip is surely slipping I think I've lost my hold Yes I think I've lost my hold I cannot get insurance any more 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] 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 the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man Ab Eb Bb Ab/Bb Bb Fm/Bb Cm Bridge: ------- At my request you take me in Cm Cm/Ab Bb Bb/G Cm/Ab In that tenderness I am floating away Cm Cm/Ab Bb Bb/G Cm/Ab Cm No certainty, nothing to rely on Cm/Ab Bb Bb/G Cm/Ab Holding still for a moment Cm Cm/Ab Bb Bb/G Cm/Ab What a moment this is F Oh for a moment of forgetting Cm/Ab A moment of bliss F Oh.... Eb Bb, Eb [verse] 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] 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 Ab Eb Bb Cm 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 Ab Eb Bb Ab/Bb Bb Fm/Bb Cm -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // What makes mass society so difficult to bear // // is not the number of people involved...but // // the fact that the world between them has lost // // its power to gather them together, to relate // // and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 // //-----------------------------------------------// // Chris Tapio gctapio@ucdavis.edu // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////