Paradise Gone
Album: 12 Songs
By: Buckman Page
By: Buckman Page
Duration
4:01
Genres
Description
Notes^ML Some songs are written over long periods of time. BP songs like "Don't Forget About Me," "Turpentine Dreams," and "Skies" took a few months or years of revising and rewriting to finally make sense. Others, like "Stark Naked," "More Careful," and this song, "Paradise Gone," are written quickly, sometimes frantically, out of desperation, in whole. The summit of innocence is dreamy and gold A chapter of tears, as the long story's told
Lyrics
I was a careless kind of wind No direction, no sin Home was any place That my suitcase could lay In the evening I'd spend all my day's work with friends In the belly of a whale we'd called independence A careful compassion From a reckless young heart My eyes hadn't known Senseless pain from the start All the riddles of death I'd laid down to rest Came swelling and staggering as broken nonsense Livin' the high, treacherous lie Sidestepping pain and shading my eyes I stumbled along, no thought to my home 'Till my number was called And paradise was gone From the garden of eden Where I'd figured it out Went from pleasure to pain Ego to doubt Spat upon the banks in the desert in a storm Where I talked to myself through the long journey home Beware of yourself As you float in the wind A hard heart ain't right It's no place to begin The summit of innocence is dreamy and gold A chapter of tears as the long story's told credits released 11 May 2012 Paradise Gone Written by Marcus Lohrmann Performed by Buckman Page Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Stark Naked Records Artwork/Design by John Williamson
