Paradise Lyrics - Eyedea

What a beautiful world, so fragile and fertile 

Pain filled the void when boy met girl 

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 

Conditioned, dependent, afraid to be alone 

He needs that feeling that he can't create all on his own 

He despises the fact she has a life outside of him 

It drives him crazy to think she's not insanely consumed with him 

Give her the guilt-trip and maybe she'll quit living, 

To stay behind his prison walls and lose all individualism 

Well this is happiness, masochistic torture 

Played by the decadent, craved of affection 

The needle digs deep to push contentment through his bloodstream 

And drown out hollow, the pothole of a junkie 

If he could only hear her sing, he wouldn't want to break her wings 

But emptiness has such a warm, subtle sting 

She makes up for what he lacks, trapped, 

He can't imagine life without someone like that 

Chorus: 

We've rediscovered the long-lost art of dying 

Only to lonely resent angels for flying 

Twisted, living off of each other's sickness like parasites 

This is paradise 

We've rediscovered the long-lost art of dying 

Only to lonely resent angels for flying 

Addicted, afraid to take control of my own life 

This is paradise 

Verse 2: 

What a beautiful world, emotionally destroyed 

her became plural when girl met boy 

Between several breakups and plenty relapses 

Routine bred-comfort led to serious attachment 

Now every once in a while she forgets to breathe 

Terrified of losing him, paradise is misery 

Too much faith in the life-saving knight in shining armour 

Now her knight's noticing the scars she can't hide any longer 

But they were her story way before he was 

It was gross hope to think he could heal such deep cuts 

At first it felt so right but after one too many fights, 

He turned out that hallway light and all the wonder turned to spite 

So they sleep in the same bed with guns to each others' heads 

Dead to romance, boiling the blood that painted roses red 

Suffering from post-honeymoon disease, bleached through 

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 

Chorus 

Silence, the most obscure sound I've ever heard 

Those lonely, giant spaces in between your every word 

And maybe, I'm totally crazy for holding on but 

Just cus 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 

Too 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 

Chorus 

There's so much world to see 

What's stopping me from flying free? 

There's so much world to see 

What's stopping you from flying free? 

(Repeat to Fade)