"Chasing Eden" Original Song by Tay Zonday

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=2030...

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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[99dodgerboy]

tay zonday shouldo the national anthem for a baseball game or something

[footballjunkie52]

i pray for those who give there lives for our freedom godbless us all

[gamesconsle]

2:14 - 3:09

He looks so confused...

[jessyjessy4]

very interesting video thanks

[jaymiles81]

Love this song Tay!!!!!!!

[mikeymoughtin]

@footballjunkie52 your current soldiers don't give their lives for your freedom. they die trying to take away that freedom from others.

[guppo26]

@footballjunkie52 I pray for those risking their lives for the goals of a group of guys sitting safe behind their desk......

[Frogcrunch]

You may have misunderstood me, I meant this was a great song and i never noticed  it !

[Frogcrunch]

I never noticed how this song was good.

[CherryBear161]

I luv your suit in this video, Tay XOXOXO

[Birdboy029]

Tay, do you still have the original footage elements of this video? It would be cool if you or a collaborator could produce and upload a high quality version of the same video.

Maybe it was youtube originally that dampened the picture quality a bit. anyway, HQ would especially be good for the featured paintings.