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Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Eden

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Americana

Eden was released on June 9, 2017 by Organic Records as a part of the album Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Song Details

AlbumAmanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Release DateJune 9, 2017

LabelOrganic Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM95

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COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Composer, Lyrics

Lyrics

Twenty-Four acres of Indiana farmland

Airstream trailer - livin' in the heartland

A little ways west

Of where the day is born

I put 200,000 miles on this Japanese car

Mechanic says "it's dying now don't take it very far"

But I love to go out drivin'

Watch the sun melt on the corn

We're living in the heartland

Somewhere between the mountains and the shore

At school the kids are learnin' about Christopher Columbus

The names of all his ships

And how to use a compass

And I wish that it could stop there

I wish there was a way to keep 'em young

'Cause when I think about him now

He must have been all shaky-handed

Delusions of grandeur and lines in the sand

And a look in his eye of a man who has been at sea too long

Trying to find his legs and afraid to admit he might be wrong

It's what I don't know that makes this living easy

The more I learn the more it brings me to my knees

And I say "Please

Let me back inside the garden

I won't eat anything that's fallen from that goddamn tree"

Twenty-Four acres of Indiana farmland

Used to be 100, but Grandpa lost a card game

We moved back here from Boston

Cause I lost my job and this is where I'm from

And the kids seem pretty happy

They don't miss their dad too much

I can't answer all their questions but they never lack for love

And that's what I tell my mother when she calls

I say "Don't you worry about us"

'Cause we're living in the heartland

And we're learning how to let that be enough

It's what I don't know that makes this living easy

The more I learn the more it brings me to my knees

And I say "Please

Let me back inside the garden

I won't eat anything that's fallen from that goddamn tree"

We don't keep a TV

'Cause the news is always bad

And it teaches us to want all the things we'll never have

And there's always someone getting hurt

Someone else was feeling too let down

One of these nights I'm gonna go out to the crossroads

I'll see who's buying

And I'll tell him just to go on home

I'll look him in the eye and say

"You don't scare me now"

Since the bottle took my baby

And the banker took my house

We're livin’ in the heartland

Surely somewhere here is where the heart is found

It's what I don't know that makes this living easy

The more I learn the more it brings me to my knees

And I say "Please

Let me back inside the garden

I won't eat anything that's fallen

I won’t touch anything that’s fallen

From that goddamn tree"

Written by: Amanda Anne Platt

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