Blood of Eden

This article is about the Peter Gabriel single. For the young adult series by Julie Kagawa, see Blood of Eden (series).
"Blood of Eden"
Single by Peter Gabriel
from the album Us
B-side"Mercy Street"
Released15 March 1993[1]
Length
  • 6:35 (album version)
  • 4:57 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)Peter Gabriel
Producer(s)
Peter Gabriel singles chronology
"Steam"
(1992) 		"Blood of Eden"
(1993) 		"Kiss That Frog"
(1993)
Music video
"Peter Gabriel - Blood Of Eden" on YouTube

"Blood of Eden" is the third single from English rock musician Peter Gabriel's sixth album, Us (1992), featuring backing vocals by Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor. It was written by Gabriel and produced by him with Daniel Lanois. The single was released in March 1993 by Geffen, Real World and Virgin, and narrowly failed to enter the UK top 40, peaking at number 43.

The single has two B-side tracks: A remix of "Mercy Street" (originally from Gabriel's previous studio album So, released in 1986) by William Orbit and an earlier version of the a-side. This version had originally appeared in the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World (1991) but was not included on the official soundtrack.[2]

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 25.
  2. ^ Scarfe, Graeme (2021). Peter Gabriel: Every Album, Every Song. United Kingdom: SonicBond. pp. 64–65, 99–100, 115–117. ISBN 978-1-78952-138-2.