Just Like Eve
By Conni Leigh James c2020
No capo, 125 BPM
INTRO: G C D C
You came of age today
Another fairy tale gone astray
A treasure from youth, some unshakeable truth
Shattered and swept away
You lost a friend this time
Another hero was left behind
A terrible cost, that refuge you’ve lost
The garden from nursery rhyme
Just like Eve, I used to believe in a rose-colored paradise
In vine-covered walls, there was never a call to bargain or sacrifice
Outside the gate, dragons wait and the world is on fire
The centuries burn with hunger and yearning and hope and desire
Today, one more fortress fell
Somewhere between here and hell
This garden a stage for the war that you waged
For the soul you refused to sell
You took that first bite again
Invited the demons in
I watch while you stand and stare down the damned
A new chapter and verse begin
Just like Eve, I started to need something more than that sheltered place
To cry and to bleed, to die in the weeds, an unbearable leap from grace
To dance on the edge of that razor thin ledge that was keeping the floods at bay
That original sin comes cascading in … the knowledge I couldn’t stay
You once were the Morningstar
A firefly in a mason jar
Angels deceived you but banishment freed you
Now truth is your battle scar
Just like me, sometimes you still grieve for that arrogant vanity
The stories that bound us, there’s something profound in the power of certainty
The voice in my head while I’m lying in bed, a whispered prayer from the child within
But I wake up alone, my fate is my own, we can never go back again
I wake up alone, my fate is my own, I would never go back again