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Gentle Arms Of Eden

from Just as Sure by Rebecca Riots

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On a sleepy, endless ocean, when the world lay in a dream,
There was rhythm in the splash and roll, but not a voice to sing.
So the moon fell on the breakers, and the mornings warmed the waves, ‘Til a single cell did jump and hum for joy, as though to say,

“This is my home, this is my only home.
“This is the only sacred ground that I have ever known.
“And should I stray in the dark night alone,
“Rock me, Goddess, in the gentle arms of Eden.”

Then the days shone bright and rounder, ‘til the one turned into two, And the two into ten thousand, and the old things into new.
‘Til on some virgin beachhead, one lonesome critter crawled.
And he looked about and shouted out in his most astonished drawl,

Then all the sky was buzzin’, and the ground was carpet-green.
And the wary children of the woods went dancing in between.
The people sang, rejoicing when their fields were glad with grain,
This song of celebration from their cities on the plain.

Now there’s smoke across the harbor, and there’s factories on the shore.
And the world is ill with greed, and will, and enterprise, and war.
But I will lay my burdens in the cradle of your grace,
In the shining beaches of your love and the sea of your embrace.

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from Just as Sure, released May 1, 2004
Song © 2000 Dave Carter/Dave Carter Music (BMI), administered by Tracy Grammer Music (BMI)

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Rebecca Riots Berkeley, California

Rebecca Riots was a female “radical folk” trio founded in 1993 by its members, Andrea Prichett, Lisa Zeiler, and Eve Decker.

"A band with a conscience that heals minds with its social and political commentary"
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“The trio is far and away one of the Bay Area's most impressive bands. Rebecca Riots should be a household name.”
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