Eden

Sara Bareilles · The Blessed Unrest [2013]

Let me paint a picture for you then I'll have to teach you to see it

Illustrate the remnants of the life I used to live here in Eden

Rolled a lucky pair of dice, ended up paradise

Landed on a snake's eyes, took a bite and ended up bleeding



CHORUS:

You know if I could change anything

I think I would start with the name

The truth is all those angels started acting the same

And I know there's no going back now 'cause

Life in Eden

Life in Eden changed

No way to make the pain play fair

It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there

So when they ask why'd she go, you can say 'cause

Life in Eden

Life in Eden changed

Life in Eden changed



Walking in the garden was a serpent-shaped heart and he told me

That what is broken cannot show

And less than beautiful is worse than unholy

Idolized my innocence, stole it from me in the end

Now I'm wide awakened and still paying for the poison they sold me



CHORUS



There was a time when I was taking all bets

That this place was even better than as good as it gets

And now looking back from the outside in

I think I was choking on the air in Eden

Choking on the air in Eden



Life in Eden changed



You know if I could change anything

I think I would start with the name

The truth is all those angels started acting the same

And I know there's no going back now 'cause

Life in Eden

Life in Eden changed

No way to make the pain play fair

It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there

So when they ask why'd she go, you can say 'cause

Life in Eden

Life in Eden changed



When they ask why'd she go

'Cause life in Eden

Life in Eden changed

Life in Eden changed