Apples and silver bear the trees of paradise Visions of heaven to unfold

before our eyes Where cherry orchards bloom eternal summer's night Upon

a sarcen stone we dreamed Our sweet old lies



And into the dreams bewitched We'd hear the haunting song That beckoned

us to taste Of the dark of unripe dawn



If pride doth go before the fall The summer never was Promises gilded

and hollow No longer do bind us All knowing and all wise



We'll exit Eden By the sunrise



As pestilence falls down as rain upon our heads Still paved with gold

become the roads that we now tread Covered with sores and drunk with plain

mortality We have no thing so dear we couldn't Part with and leave



And if plague and hail they say May purge a righteous man Tears wept in

anger Shall be wiped away By the Devil's hand



If pride doth go before the fall The summer never was Promises gilded

and hollow No longer do bind us All knowing and all wise



We'll exit Eden By the sunrise



(All sacred secrets and serpents Grow old and tangled in shadows coiled

Under bridges over Alpheus stream Carrying their dust on to the sea)