Gates Of Eden (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Gates of Eden


Artist = Bob Dylan
from Album = Bringing It All Back Home
A-side = "Like a Rolling Stone"
Released = July 20 1965
Format = 7" single
Recorded = June 15 1965
Composed by = Bob Dylan
Genre = Rock
Length = 5:40
Label = Columbia
Producer = Tom Wilson
Artist = Bob Dylan
Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Bringing It All Back Home
Type = studio
prev_track = "Mr. Tambourine Man"
prev_no = 8
this_track = "Gates of Eden"
track_no = 9
next_track = "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
next_no = 10

Gates of Eden is a song by Bob Dylan, and appears on his fifth studio album Bringing It All Back Home, released on 22 March, 1965 by Columbia Records. It was also released as a single as the B-side to "Like a Rolling Stone". It is considered to be one of Dylans most surrealist songs, alongside It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) and Mr. Tambourine Man (both of which appear on Bringing It All Back Home). Many believe it to be a continuation from Mr. Tambourine Man and his earlier song, Chimes Of Freedom.
Dylan described the song as a "sacrilegious lullaby in D minor" and a "love song." Clinton Heylin said, "it was a song of vivid experience, constructed in the form of a dream, that came to [Dylan] in 'a house that is not mine." 1991 covered Luci van Org as Eena the Song for the Movie Go Trabi Go.

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External links

* [http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gates.html Lyrics]

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References

Trager, Oliver. Keys to the Rain: The Ultimate Bob Dylan Encyclopedia ISBN 0-8230-7974-0