Paradise

(Brian Hendrix)

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)

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