| Eyedea & Abilities – Paradise Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think this song tells a story from three peoples perspectives. at first he speaks using words like he and her refering to other people than himself, then describes that she is slave to their relationship "He’s a - puppet to nature, one year later now So deeply and sickly in love, it makes him hate her The average romanticized, American relationship Sinks, capsized, when either side becomes a slave to it " still speaking of 'him' Eyedea tells you where he comes in to play when this line comes "He needs that feeling that he can’t create all on his own He despises the fact she has a life outside of ‘them’" i think that what he's saying is that the guy he refers to as him and the girl were no longer together and that eyedea was "the life outside of them". but then "He can’t imagine life without someone like that." so he guilt trips her into staying with him in this line "Give her the guilt trip, and maybe she’ll quit livin’ To stay behind his prison walls and loose all individualism" so she falls behind his prison walls and becomes trapped and at that point committed to him then she grows apart from him but fears him leaving her "Suffering from post-honeymoon disease, leeched to his whole existence She’ll die if he decides to leave Addicted to the way she feels when they spend time together Detouring the now, in a childish attempt to find forever Despite the fact they hold each other heart-to-heart You can’t be that close to somebody, without being so far apart" i think the chorus then tells both sides 'paradise' or the situation they were put in "We’ve rediscovered the long lost art of dyin’ Only the lonely resent angels for flyin’ Twisted, living off each other’s sickness, like parasites this is paradise" This is her path living off of eachothers s sicknesses We’ve rediscovered the long lost art of dyin’ Only the lonely resent angels for flyin’ Addicted, afraid to take control of my own life This is paradise This is Eyedea's 'paradise' or situation where he cant take control of his life because he cant let her go in both it has the line "only the lonely resent angels from flying" i think this means that both men feel lonely and thats why neither can give her up but then the last verse seems like a final word to her saying that he cant get over her but reminding her not to cling to false obsession but rather to fly free and that he will try to do the same "Silence is the most obscure sound I’ve ever heard Those lonely, giant spaces in-between your every word And maybe I’m totally crazy for holdin’ on But, just cause I’m insane don’t mean that I’m wrong Now that you’re gone I can’t sleep at night, I barely even function right My memory’s on overdrive, to hungry and too cold to cry Miss the companionship I once took for granted The way you helped me manage, the partnership that vanished But I don’t expect you to stay chained by the ankle There’s so much world to see, so, fly free ~ my angel I’m dying without you, but it’s teaching me to live Heaven ain’t something someone else can give – it’s all inside of me " |
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