Paradise
Eyedea & Abilities Lyrics

What a beautiful world, so fragile and fertile
The world is beautiful but also delicate and easily disrupted.

Pain feel the void, when boy met girl
The pain of loneliness is filled when two people come together in a romantic relationship.

He's a puppet to nature, one year later now
He is controlled by his natural desire for love and attachment, which has lasted for a year.

So deeply and sickly in love, it makes him hate her
His love is so deep and unhealthy that it has turned into hatred for his partner.

The average romanticized American relationship, sinks capsize
The idea of a romanticized relationship in America often leads to problems and failure.

When either side becomes a slave to it
When one person in the relationship becomes overly dependent and submissive.

Conditioned, dependent, afraid to be alone
People in these relationships have been conditioned to be dependent on their partner and are afraid to be alone.

He needs that feeling that he can't create, (alone?)his own(home?)
He needs the feeling of love that he cannot create by himself, in his own home.

He despises the fact she has a life outside of them
He hates that his partner has a life outside of their relationship and is not fully consumed by him.

It drives him crazy to think she's not insanely consumed with him
He becomes upset when he realizes that his partner is not entirely devoted to him.

Give her the guilt trip
He tries to make her feel guilty to manipulate her into staying within the relationship.

And maybe she'll quit livin' to stay behind these prison walls
He wants her to give up her individuality and life outside of their relationship to stay with him.

And lose all individualism
He wants his partner to become completely dependent on him and lose any sense of personal identity or individualism.

Well this is happiness, masochistic torture, plagued by the decadent, craved for affection
This relationship is masochistically torturous and based on craving affection.

The needle digs deep to push contentment through his blood stream, it drowned now hollow
The addiction to the relationship is like an injection of contentment that leaves him feeling empty.

The pothole of a junkie
The addiction to the relationship is like a pothole that he cannot escape from.

If he could only hear her sing he wouldn't want to break her wings
If he could appreciate her talents and strengths, he would not want to bring her down.

But emptiness has such a warm subtle sting
The emptiness he feels is comforting in a strange way.

She makes up for what he lacks - trapped
He feels trapped because he is reliant on her to fill his emotional voids.

He can't imagine life without someone like that
He cannot picture his life without someone to fill his emotional voids.

If we'd discover the long lost art dying
If we could learn how to die well and let go of attachments.

Only the lonely resent angels for flying
Only those who are lonely and dependent on others resent their partners for having freedom and independence.

Twisted, living off each other's sickness, like parasites
They are both twisted and rely on each other's emotional sickness in a toxic way, like parasites.

This is paradise
Their toxic relationship is their idea of paradise.

Addicted, afraid to take control of my own life
He is addicted to the relationship and is afraid to take control of his own life.

What a beautiful world, emotionally destroyed
The world is beautiful but has been destroyed by their emotional turmoil.

(Her?) became girl(?), when girl met boy
The girl lost her identity and sense of self when she became attached to the boy.

Between several breakups and plenty relapses
They have broken up multiple times and keep getting back together.

Routine read comfort led to serious attachment
Their routine and comfort led to a deep and serious attachment.

Now every once in a while she forgets to breathe
She is so scared of losing him that she forgets to take care of herself.

Terrified of losing 'em, paradise is misery
Her fear of losing him has turned their paradise into misery.

Too much faith in the lifesaving knight in shining armor
She has too much faith in him to save her and bring her happiness.

Now what knight's noticing - the scar she can't hide any longer
He is finally noticing the emotional scars she has been hiding.

But they were her story way before he was
Her emotional scars and struggles existed before he came into her life.

It's grows hope to think that he would feel such deep cuts
She hopes that he will understand her struggles and empathize with her pain.

At first it felt so right but after one too many fights
Their relationship felt right at first, but constant fighting has ruined it.

He turned out that hallway light and all the wonder turned to spite
He turned off the light and their once magical relationship turned into bitterness.

So they sleep in the same bed with guns to each other's heads
They sleep in the same bed but are secretly holding grudges and resenting each other.

Dead the romance, boiling the blood that painted roses red
The romance is dead and their once passionate love has turned into animosity.

Suffering from post-honeymoon's disease, leeched to his whole existence
They are suffering from post-honeymoon's syndrome, where they are overly dependent on each other's existence.

To die if he decides to live (?)
He is unsure if he can survive without her in his life.

Addicted to the way she feels when they spend time together
He is addicted to the emotional high he gets when they are together.

Detouring the now in a childish attempt to find forever
They are so focused on the future, that they are missing out on the present moment.

Despite the fact they hold each other heart to heart
Even though they are emotionally close, they are still far apart due to their toxic relationship.

You can't be that close to somebody without being so far afar
Their emotional closeness is overshadowed by their deep-seated issues and inability to be truly happy.

Sigh, this is the most obscure sound I've ever heard
He is feeling lost and unsure about their relationship.

Those lonely giant spaces in between your every word
There is a rift between them and communication has become difficult.

And maybe I'm totally crazy for holdin' on
He questions if he is crazy for staying in the relationship.

But just cause I'm insane don't mean that I'm wrong
He acknowledges that he may be crazy, but that does not necessarily mean he is wrong.

Now that shit gone I can't sleep at night, I barely even function right
Now that the relationship is over, he is struggling to function and sleep at night.

My memories on overdrive, too hungry and too cold to cry
He is overwhelmed by his memories of the relationship and is too emotionally drained and numb to even cry about it.

Miss the companionship I once took for granted
He realizes how much he misses the companionship he once took for granted in the relationship.

The way you helped me manage, the partnership that vanished
He misses the way his partner was there for him and the partnership they once had.

But I don't expect you to stay chained by the ankle
He knows he cannot force his partner to stay with him if they are not meant to be together.

There's so much world to see, so, fly free my angel
He encourages his partner to go out and see the world and live their life freely, without being chained to the relationship.

I'm dying without you but it's teaching me to live
Although he feels like he is dying without his partner, he realizes that this experience is teaching him how to truly live.

Heaven ain't something someone else can give it's all inside of me
Happiness and fulfillment cannot come from someone else, it must be found within oneself.

There's so much world to see, what's stopping me from flying free?
He questions what is holding him back from living his life freely and exploring the world on his own.

There's so much world to see, that's stopping you from flying free?
He questions what is holding his partner back from living their life freely and exploring the world on their own.