Album: Have One On Me (2010)
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  • I found a little plot of land
    In the Garden of Eden
    It was dirt and dirt is all the same
    I tilled it with my two hands
    And I called it my very own
    There was no-one to dispute my claim

    Well, you'd be shocked
    At the state of things
    The whole place
    Had just cleared right out
    It was hotter'n hell
    So I laid me by a spring, for a spell
    As naked as a trout

    The wandering eye that I have caught
    Is as hot as a wandering sun
    But I will want for nothing more
    In my garden
    Start again
    In my hardening to every heart but one

    Meet me in the garden of Eden
    Bring a friend
    We are going to have ourselves a time
    We are gonna have a garden party
    It's on me
    No, sirree, it's my dime
    We broke our hearts
    In the war between
    St. George and the dragon
    But both, in equal parts
    Are welcome to come along
    I'm inviting everyone

    Farewell to loves that I have known
    Even muddiest waters run
    Tell me, what is meant by sin, or none
    In a garden
    Seceded from the union
    In the year of A.D. 1?

    The unending amends you've made
    Are enough for one life
    Be done
    I believe in innocence, little darling
    Start again
    I believe in everyone
    I believe, regardless
    I believe in everyone Writer/s: Joanna Newsom
    Publisher: Rough Trade Publishing
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