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tree of life & tree of knowledge
for a moment looked the same
but when I'm naked & I'm ignorant
am I really the one to blame?
but still you stand at the entrance to my garden
holding high your flaming sword
saying that you think it's best for all of us
that I don't live there anymore

(chorus 2x)
you've come here with one duty
your voice now calling to me
so terrible in your beauty
like every angel should be

now my birthright's a straightjacket
& my good deeds are as ash
the feathered wings my faith has given me
weigh so heavily on my back
I prayed so long for a token of his favor
that he'd claim me as his own
but the only sign that ever came to me
said that my sin was mine alone

(chorus 2x)

now I worship you in silence
but sometimes the secret slips
like when the sweet annunciation falls
unexpectedly from your lips
so I will search for a sign of his forgiveness
in the form of a raven or a dove
knowing that I'd sooner drown beneath the flood
that I would step outside this love

(chorus 2x)

tree of life & tree of knowledge
for a moment looked the same
but when I'm naked & I'm ignorant
am I really the one to blame?
but still you stand at the entrance to my garden
holding high your flaming sword
saying that you think it's best for all of us
that I don't live there anymore

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from All of My Heroes Are Villains, released February 29, 2008
Justin Hartley: drums
Beth Kinderman: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
Dave Stagner: electric guitar
Nikki Walker: vocals

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Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters Minneapolis, Minnesota

If you like epic song cycles based upon multi-thousand-page fantasy novels, thought-provoking lyrics, violin solos, complex vocal harmonies, huge drums, and weird guitar effects, but you also think that more musicians should write songs about surviving the zombie apocalypse and attempting to sleep with video game characters, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters are the band for you. ... more

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