Eden’s Gate
I haven’t listened to this song in several years until it randomly popped up on my iPod a few weeks ago. It’s Pat Green in, what I would call, his Hayday… vintage Pat with lyrics that will pierce your heart. This is a love song that would have never made it on radio play… it just doesn’t have the beat for it… but it may be one of the best ones I’ve ever heard. This go around it reminds me of why I got married in the first place… sweet, innocent, beautiful love.
One of my favorites lines is when he is singing about the world outside and says “It keeps on raging like some crazy storm… but not in here”. That’s the love I want. Safe. Secure. Solid.
“Eden’s Gate” by Pat Green
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She holds the key to Eden’s Gate
Somewhere deep inside
When she gives to me her patience
And a hundred smiles none the same
Her eyes are the ocean
i am drowning constantly
i am lucky just to linger
in the corners of her scene
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don’t you ever set me free
i am lost inside the walls of Eden
I’ll never go back, no i’ll never go back again
Outside the world’s a bastard
The son whose father never cared
It keeps on raging like some crazy storm
but not in here
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don’t you ever set me free
i am lost inside the walls of Eden
I’ll never go back, no i’ll never go back again
All it cost me was my whole life
all it gives me is everything
a love like fire, the taste of skin
the feeling of falling again and again
it’s a long drink from a deep cool well
it’s everything, baby,
it’s everything, baby,
it’s everything
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don’t you ever set me free
They’ve been playing that song out here in Phoenix for a few weeks now, calling it a new release from this “up and coming” Texas star. Made me laugh!
I remember when I first heard that song, seems like such a long time ago. Wow, how time does fly.
it has always been one of my very favorites. I love “I am lucky just to linger, in the corners of her scene”…. WOW is some of Pat’s best songwriting, even if most don’t give it a chance
@mauren
I agree completely. I love the writing on that album.