THIS SONG IS ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ! I'm amazed by how it seems like 90% of the audience missed the song's topic. I only use Christian metaphors because I (wrongly) assumed they were common knowledge; not to advance a religious position.
"Chasing Eden" is a metaphor for the failed pursuit of salvation in the most commonly accepted historical location for a "Garden of Eden," the Fertile Crescent tied to the Tigris and Euphretes rivers in IRAQ.
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This song was inspired by a poem I once heard by Jason Bayani:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2030372429
LYRICS:
They say Eden was a great place
But that serpent had a sweet face
When people gained the knowledge
Eden died
But they saw Eden rising
In that fertile crescent lining
And off we marched to
make the story right
[Chorus]
'Round the Tigris and Euphrates
Headlines fly and we're still waiting
For the good news that salvation rises here
'Round the Tigris and Euphrates
I just wonder, is there really
That old Eden dreamed before my knowlege came
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Seeing that Eden would I lose it?
Would my actions take me to it?
Would I chase it past the sunset
through the night?
Would it pull on how I feel
'til that Eden seemed so real?
Would I fill my home with
hope that it came true?
Would the angels rising there
need a flag to pay the fare
to reach the heaven for
the ones I love?
Would the money and the power
take the feeling of the hour,
sing drive-by prayers pretending
sweet support?
[Chorus]
'Round the Tigris and Euphrates
Anthems part the lips of babies
Singing sins the parents can't conceive
'Round the Tigris and Euphrates
Hardware acts as judge and jury
Making law the factory never sees
'Round the Tigris and Euphrates
Symbols fill the crooks and cranies
That mark turf from Chicago to Coeur d'Alene
'Round the Tigris and Euphrates
We all love our heroes' faces
But who believes that Eden they'll retrieve?
will that ancient garden sprout?
Or is starlight somewhere else?
I saw it 'round those stripes
the other day.
Chasing Eden
But it ran away
PAINTING/IMAGE CREDITS (In Order Of Apperance):
MICHELANGELO Buonarroti, Expusion From The Garden of Eden, 1509-1510
CAMASSEI, Andrea, The Massacre Of The Niobids 1638-39
ALTDORFER, Albrecht, The Battle of Alexander 1529
Image From NASA VISIBLE EARTH
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov
BOSCH, Hieronymus, Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights (left wing) c. 1500
BOSCH, Hieronymus, Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights (center panel) c. 1500
BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder, Garden of Eden, 1612
Mignard, Pierre, The Heavenly Glory, 1663
BASSEN, Bartholomeus van, Renaissance Interior with Banqueters, 1618-20
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