JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, Bob Dylan, mempopulerkan lagu berjudul “Gates of Eden”.
Diproduseri oleh Tom Wilson, lagu ini merupakan bagian dari album studio kelimanya yang diberi nama Bringing It All Back Home.
Album yang dirilis pada tahun 1965 itu sukses mencapai peringkat ke-6 tangga lagu Billboard Pop Albums Chart.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Gates of Eden” dari Bob Dylan.
[Intro]
G C/G G C/G G C/G
G C/G G C/G G C/G
G C/G G
[Verse 1]
G Dm
Of war and peace the truth just twists
F C G C/G G C/G F G
It's curfew gull it glides
G Dm
Upon four-legged forest clouds
F C G C/G G
The cowboy angel rides
G Bm Am G
With his candle cradled into the sun
Am C D
Though its glow is waxed in black
G Bb Am G C/G G C/G F G
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
[Verse 2]
G Dm
The lamppost stands with folded arms
F C G C/G G
It's iron claws attached
G Dm
To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
F C G C/G G
Though it shadows metal badge
G Bm Am G
All and all can only fall
Am C D
With a crashing but meaningless blow
G Bb C G C/G G C/G G
And no sound at all comes from the Gates of Eden
[Verse 3]
G Dm
The savage soldier sticks his head
F C G
In sand and then complains
G Dm
Unto the shoeless hunter who's
F C G
Gone deaf but still remains
G Bm Am G
Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
Am C D
At ships with tattooed sails
G Bb C G C/G G C/G F G
Heading for the Gates of Eden
[Verse 4]
G Dm
With a time-rusted compass blade
F C G
Aladdin and his lamp
G Dm
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
F C G
Side saddle on the Golden Calf
G Bm Am G
And on their promises of paradise
Am C D
You will not hear a laugh
G Bb C G C/G G C/G F G
All except inside the Gates of Eden
[Verse 5]
G Dm
Relationships of ownership
F C G C/G G
They whisper in the wings
G Dm
To those condemned to act accordingly
F C G
And wait for succeeding kings
G Bm Am G
And I try to harmonize with songs
Am C D
The lonesome sparrow sings
G Bb C G C/G G C/G F G
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
[Verse 6]
G Dm
The motorcycle black Madonna
F C G C/G G
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
G Dm
And her silver-studded phantom cause
F C G
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
G Bm Am G
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
Am C D
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
G Bb C G C/G G C/G F G
And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
[Verse 7]
G Dm
The kingdoms of experience
F C G C/G G
In the precious winds they rot
G Dm
While paupers change possessions
F C G
Each one wishing for what the other has got
G Bm Am G
And the princess and the prince
Am C D
Discuss what's real and what is not
G Bb C G C/G G C/G F G
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden
[Verse 8]
G Dm
The foreign sun, it squints upon
F C G C/G G
A bed that is never mine
G Dm
As friends and other strangers
F C G
From their fates try to resign
G Bm Am G
Leaving men wholly totally free
Am C D
To do anything they wish to do but die
G Bb C G C/G G C/G F G
And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden
[Verse 9]
G Dm
At dawn my lover comes to me
F C G C/G G
And tells me of her dreams
G Dm
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
F C G
Into the ditch of what each one means
G Bm Am G
At times I think there are no words
Am C D
But these to tell what's true
G Bb C G C/G G C/G G
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden