Track 14 on the album
Ancient Land by Celtic Woman is entitled
Garden of Eden, and it was written and performed by Éabha McMahon. She
wrote a little about her experience writing songs on Instragram. It makes me a little happy to think I get to be the first person to transcribe the lyrics and put them online. Here you go:
Oh you run through the Garden of Eden and what did you see?
Was it thrilling, fulfilling, and all it was cracked up to be?
Oh you left her alone after placing a ring on her hand.
Oh you run through the Garden of Eden, you're borne from this land.
Now that woman you vowed, did she chased you out with her drum?
And did love turn to anguish when all of her crying was done?
And the ground broke beneath you, you lost every thing that you know.
Oh you run through the Garden of Eden, where no one should go.
If I could hold you for one more hour, would you lie with me among the flowers?
I wrote you a letter every day but the Garden of Eden took my love away.And you begged for forgiveness, you cried until no tears were left.
But that woman of wisdom had wished for you only the best.
Now your beard overgrown and disheveled, you're barely a man.
Oh you run through the Garden of Eden, as fast as you can.
If I could hold you for one more hour, would you lie with me among the flowers?
I wrote you a letter every day but the Garden of Eden took my love away.There's no pain in this garden, the sky knows nothing but blue.
But perfection is nothing, when all she can think of is you.
And you broke her to pieces, set fire to a wall that she built.
Now you're left in the garden alone, with nothing but guilt.
If I could hold you for one more hour, would you lie with me among the flowers?
I wrote you a letter every day but the Garden of Eden took my love away.If I could hold you for one more hour, would you lie with me among the flowers?
I wrote you a letter every day but the Garden of Eden took my love away.But the Garden of Eden took my love away.