.... C - G - C
G C
1. I caught sight of my
reflection
G
C
I caught it in the window, I saw the darkness in my heart.
G C
I saw the signs of my undoing,
G
C
they had been there
from the start.
G C
And the darkness still has work to do,
G C
the
knotted chord's untying,
G
C
the
heated and the holy, oh, they're sitting there on high,
G C
so
secure with everything they're buying.
F - C
G Am
In the blood of Eden lie
the woman and the man,
F C G Am
with the man in the woman, and the
woman in the man.
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man,
F - C
G F Dm
we wanted the union, oh, the union of the woman,
G C
the woman and the man.
+ G - C
G C
2. My grip is surely
slipping,
G C
I think I've lost my hold, yes,
I think I've lost my hold.
G
C
I cannot get insurance any
more,
G
C
they don't
take credit, only gold.
G C
Is that a dagger or a crucifix
I see,
G C
you
hold so tightly in your hand ?
G C
And all the while the distance grows between
you and me,
G
C
I do not understand.
F - C G Am
In the mud of Eden lie the
woman and the man,
F C G Am
with the man in the woman, and the
woman in the man.
F - C G Am
In the mud of Eden lie the
woman and the man,
F - C
G F Dm
we wanted the union, oh, the union of the woman,
G Am
the woman and the man.
F
At my request you take me in,
Am G F
Am
in
that tenderness, I am floating away.
G F Am
No certainty, nothing to rely
on,
G F D
holding still for a
moment, what a moment this is,
F C
D7
oh,
for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss.
C - G - C
Oh !
G C
3. I can hear the distant thunder
G C
of a
million unheard souls, of a million unheard souls.
G C
Watch each one reach for
creature comfort,
G C
for
the filling of their holes.
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden lie
the woman and the man,
F C G Am
with the man in the woman, and the
woman in the man.
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden lie the
woman and the man,
F - C
G Am
we wanted the union, oh, the woman and the man.
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden lie the
woman and the man,
F C G Am
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
F C G Am
I feel the man in the woman and the woman in the man
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden we
have done everything we can,
F - C G Am
In the blood of Eden, so we
end as we began.
F C G Am
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man,
F - C
G F Dm
it was all for the union, oh, the union of the woman,
G C
the woman and the man.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Peter Gabriel with Sinead O’Connor)