Paradise
I must have been a pirate in a past life. A lot of my songs use ships and sailors and the sea as metaphors. This song is about a man who's lost the love of his life and is searching his own life for meaning, yet is tortured by her memory. So he wants to go back to his paradise. It was inspired by that scene in "The Green Mile" where the death row inmate is talking about his "best time," with his young wife in a cabin overlooking the mountainside.
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If you could grant any wish you wanted
Go any place you left behind
Would you care if it was haunted
And lo those years still plague the mind
If I had a ship out on the ocean
And didn't sink to the depths below
I'd sail those stars to motion
To the only place I wanna go
(Chorus)
Bring me home to paradise
The memories of my youth
Her hair was golden as the sun
And her lips were sweet as fruit
My ideal felicity
Under the moon, she'd walk with me
Bring me home to paradise
Or let me drown alone asea
At times it stands clear in the distance
Remind myself, it isn't real
A mirage, my mind's persistence
Then spates my cheeks, remorseful tears
That time was everything I lived for
Now longs to taunt me through the night
To know I only had to give more
I'll return, if it costs my life
(Chorus)
I touch your hand on sun-drenched mornings
Pretend your skin's what makes it warm
And watch you lovingly, adoring
The flush red rising on my palm
Washed away clean by a storm cloud
When only nothingness is revealed
I shriek, fight back and call aloud
Wring my hands and plea for deals
(Chorus)
© Brian Hendrix 2020
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