“Edenville” is the fifth track on Deca’s fourth album The Ocean. The song is about death and the allure of afterlife, which is likened to the Garden of Eden.
Like many of Deca’s songs, “Edenville” references the story of Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis. The same theme appears in “Gabriel Ratc...
[Verse 1]
New day
Everything's lovely
New highs
Visions of new beginnings and blue skies
Move west, crash cars
Burn a ball of black tar
Slow dance on glass shards
Get your mind right
Sinner man
Pusher man
Put the money in his hand
In advance
Paint a halo on top of a pentagram
Hell flames lash out like hyena tongues
Sore eyes, beating drums
Military drills, shrill war cries
Who could brave a Daedalus Maze in record time?
Death defying, I saw the light in the exit sign
A state of grace, sight and sound of the deaf and blind
And that alone would send a shiver down the devil's spine
I live on bread and wine
I'm made of flesh and blood
I'm subject to decay
Same as it ever was
I got a nice girl
With a nice smile
We grow together like Frida Kahlo's eyebrows
[Chorus]
One day, one became two
I sat beneath an apple tree with you
(uh)
One day, I welcome change when I see Him
Leave it all behind and take a train back to Eden
[Verse 2]
Help me turn inward
In-purge the impure
I could paint a picture
Based on what I've inferred
Broad strokes with an Indian brush
With words
With ease
Misdeeds weighing on my soul like bricks
Please forgive me
I've loved, I've lost, I've found
I've picked myself up off the ground
All I ever do is drop pot
Making fun of tongue cheek
Taco truck lunch meat
Dung heaps on drum beats
Comfy in the front seat
Of a space craft with the bass up
I'm going places
I don't want to wake up
Paranoia fear groupthink superstition
You don't understand
You create what you envision
Young lady opens eyes sees true worth
Blind man with a Raven's head seeks new birth
It's all too much
It's all beautiful
All terrifying
All the projections of human souls
[Outro]
One day, one became two
I sat beneath an apple tree with you
(uh)
One day, I welcome change when I see Him
Leave it all behind and take a train back to Eden