[Verse 1] Sunlight dancing through the canopy Each leaf a prayer in emerald green The babbling brook sings lullabies While chipmunks dart through nature's dream Birds chorus from the ancient oaks Their melodies like liquid gold This sacred grove, this perfect peace A paradise that ne'er grows old [Pre-Chorus - spoken/whispered] But listen closer to the song... [Verse 2] The trout that flash in silver streams Were millions when their lives began Of every thousand eggs that fell Perhaps just two will see next span The robin's throat swells with its call While beetles writhe within its beak And somewhere in the undergrowth A hawk tears songbirds from beneath [Chorus] What if Eden is a slaughterhouse Dressed in morning's golden light? What if beauty is a blindfold Hiding suffering from sight? We're the demons in this hellscape Finding paradise in pain Moths drawn to the flame of nature While the world burns just the same [Verse 3] The salmon fight the rushing current To spawn and die where they were born Ninety-nine percent of larvae Never see another dawn Each babbling brook's a graveyard Each meadow's built on tiny bones The flowers bloom from blood and ash Nature's countless funeral homes [Bridge] We evolved to love this carnage Like flies drawn to rotting meat Ancestors who found the joy in slaughter Were the ones who could compete But now I see the puppet strings Selection made me love this hell How can I trust these feelings When they're just my genome's spell? [Final Chorus] What if Eden is a slaughterhouse Dressed in morning's golden light? What if beauty is a blindfold Hiding suffering from sight? I'm a demon in this hellscape Finding paradise in pain But I cannot stop from loving Scenes so soothing to my brain [Outro] So I walk through this deception With my heart and mind at war Knowing that my deepest instincts May be rotten to the core In this garden made of anguish Where the beautiful devours I can neither trust my feelings Nor escape their binding powers
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