Tommy Talton

Lyrics

                           SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF EDEN

                                                                   f.t.talton/corrina jo music/ascap

 

suddenly yesterday seems far away

it’s getting hard to remember that place

now there’s a dissonant tone to your voice

and a different look to your face

  the hands on the clock seem to knock at your door

with a message you’ve fallen from grace

you say that you’re trying

but, no one is buying and even you know

that’s just not the case

You’ve said Goodbye to all that you thought you could trust

You are wounded and can’t stop the bleeding

Everything that you were has turned into dust

Now you find yourself wasted and broken

you are weak and your eyes will not open

Somewhere south of Eden

If I could I would send you a road map

Your directions are changing so fast

There’s a play and a stage that you stand on

But, you can’t say that you’re part of the cast

The pain of the moment is stronger than knowing

That none of these feelings can last

But you seem to have chosen a world that is frozen

Where the future looks just like the past

 

You’ve said Goodbye to all that you thought you could trust

You don’t even know what you are needing

Everything that you were has turned into dust

So you walk through the fog in the night somewhere south of Eden

And there’s nothing familiar in sight anywhere south of Eden

you were warm in the heat of the spotlight

You were safe in the rhythm and sound

All the people who paid to come hear you

Were excited you came to their town

  But the pull of the planets were writing in granite

  And your future was turned upside down

The apple is bitten, your story is written

and the keys to the gate can’t be found

You’ve said Goodbye to all that you thought you could trust

And all of your words are misleading

Everything that you were has turned into dust

Now you walk down the unknown streets somewhere south of Eden

There is no safe place to sleep when you live south of Eden