If Eden Spoke Mandarin
A song made by Adams
If Eden Spoke Mandarin
A song made by Adams
What if paradise began in the East?
I close my eyes and dream a different story
Where the garden grew beneath red lantern light
Adam and Eve spoke in ancient glory
Under cherry blossoms on that fateful night
The serpent whispered in a tongue so old
And wisdom wore a silk robe made of gold
If Eden bloomed where mountains touch the sky
If the first tears fell like monsoon rain
Would we still wonder, would we still ask why?
Would the apple taste like longing and pain?
I wished that Adam and Eve were from China
Maybe then the world would understand
That paradise was always in our hands
I imagine them beneath the Great Wall's shadow
Walking through bamboo in morning mist
The forbidden fruit hanging from willows
A different Eden that we somehow missed
Would history change if the beginning changed?
Or are we all still beautifully estranged?
If Eden bloomed where mountains touch the sky
If the first tears fell like monsoon rain
Would we still wonder, would we still ask why?
Would the apple taste like longing and pain?
I wished that Adam and Eve were from China
Maybe then the world would understand
That paradise was always in our hands
What if paradise began in the East?
Maybe it did, and we just forgot
