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Paradise Lost Lyrics
[verse 1]
So watch my chest heave as this last breath leaves me I am trying to be what you're dying to see Feel like fuck, man Can't take this anymore This heartbreak This life that's so fateless How could he just forsake us? Breaks us, he makes us, hate us, he gave us Nothing but no trust, and I am so fucked up So let this gun bond us, let's side by this lust And once we are just us, he'll know that he loves us [chorus] Let it all burn I will burn first God, I tried, am I lost in your eyes? Just let me burn It's what I deserve God, I've lied, am I lost in your eyes? [verse 2] So take me and make me Weaken and save me This hate you gave me Keeps saying the same thing To sing when you hurt, and to sing when you cry To sing when you live, and to sing when you die And here at the end, at the end of the hurt All the pain ain't the same when it's your turn We're the heart for the heartless The thoughts for the thoughtless The lies for the liars We're the gods of the godless [chorus] Let it all burn I will burn first God, I tried, am I lost in your eyes? Just let me burn It's what I deserve God, I've lied, am I lost in your eyes? [verse 3] So cry three tears for me When it's all gone, sing me this song So cry three tears for me When it's all gone, when it's all gone I can not stand who I am, I'm this man With this blood on my hands, in this blood I am damned So watch my wings burn as they burn in the fire Don't scatter the ashes, no need for the choir [chorus] Let it all burn I will burn first God, I tried, am I lost in your eyes? Just let me burn It's what I deserve God, I've lied, am I lost in your eyes? |
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11-17-2009
i know that meaning is kind of obvious but im still going to write
its about a man who commited a passionate murder out of haste and knows and wants to burn in hell for
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10-29-2009
these are the lyrics. things in []'s
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[verse 1]
So watch my chest heave as this last breath leaves me
I am trying to be what you're dying to see
Feel like fuck, man
Can't take this anymore
This heartbreak [this]
This life that's so fateless
How could he just forsake us?
Breaks us, he makes us, hate us, he gave us
Nothing but no trust, and I am so fucked up
So let this gun bond us, let's side by this lust
And once we are just us, he'll know that he loves us
[chorus]
Let it all burn
I will burn first
God, I tried, am I lost in your eyes?
Just let me burn
It's what I deserve
God, I've lied, am I lost in your eyes?
[verse 2]
So take me and make me
Weaken and save me
This hate [that] you gave me
Keeps saying the same thing
To sing when you hurt, and to sing when you cry
To sing when you live, and to sing when you die
And here at the end, at the end of the hurt
All the pain ain't the same when it's your turn [to burn]
We're the heart for the heartless
The thoughts for the thoughtless
The lies for the [honest] (not liars)
We're the gods of the godless
[chorus]
Let it all burn
I will burn first
God, I tried, am I lost in your eyes?
Just let me burn
It's what I deserve
God, I've lied, am I lost in your eyes?
[verse 3]
So cry three tears for me
When it's all gone, sing me this song
So cry three tears for me
When it's all gone, when it's all gone
I can not stand who I am, I'm this man
With this blood on my hands, in this blood I am damned
So watch my wings burn as they burn in the fire
Don't scatter the ashes, no need for the choir
[chorus]
Let it all burn
I will burn first
God, I tried, am I lost in your eyes?
Just let me burn
It's what I deserve
God, I've lied, am I lost in your eyes?
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10-28-2009
We get a wide palette of human emotion and action displayed on Swan Songs:
Self-indulgence, inebriation, intoxication, promiscuousness all throughout: "Everywhere I Go," "No. 5," "California,"Pimpin," "Bottle and a Gun," "Bitches," "No Other Place,"
Violence, fighting, Rebellion, murder, hatred, suicidal thoughts exhibited in "Sell Your Soul," "Undead" "The Loss," "City," "The Diary," "Black Dahlia," "Dead in Ditches," "Knife Called Lust"
Sadness, alienation, regret, "Young," "Black Dahlia," "The Diary"
Death and the Afterlife "This Love, This Hate,"
By the end of the album, "Paradise Lost" makes sense when you look at everything that has been covered. As was covered earlier, this song is clearly inspired by Milton's epic poem regarding Satan's fall from Heaven. The "character" in this particular song looks at the world that they've been handed and have in turn made for themselves. They then measure this against what God expects of humans, and grapples with a question of this world and its relation to God. Interesting to note, the identification with Satan here, is more of a symbol of alienation from God- a distance through being mortal, and through being weak, and through not being in paradise.
The singer begins as their last breath is leaving them, entering a final dialog with God expressing that they are struggling to be what He wants, but that the burdens of this world often become too great to carry and the struggle often is often debilitating, exacting a mental and physical toll. Surrounded by hatred and violence, lies, selfishness, addiction, and the myriad of other ailments which only serve to divide and to ebb happiness away, the singer struggles to maintain some sense of order, purpose and dignity. And yet still, they feel broken and incomplete, and alone.
The chorus sums up the point of this song- With everything that the singer is, with all that they have done, with all that is wrong in the world and its adverse effect on humans, are they lost? Is there no hope? Yet unlike Satan from Milton's poem, the character is clearly aware and repentant.
The character relents in the chorus, believing that they deserve whatever punishment they receive in the afterlife. Although in "This Love, This Hate," the sentiment is of a promising afterlife, it seems as thought he H.U. group is not without pause. With a defeated resolve, they ask to be allowed to burn, as it is what they have earned.
It's interesting to see such conflicting sides in a group, let alone an individual. It shows a great deal of maturity to handle both sides of an issue well. It also shows them as multi-dimensional group with no real agenda.
I'm also not sure where Johnny 3-Tears derives his name from, but based on the lyrical content of this song, it seems like a Biblical allusion to Peter's betrayal of Christ 3 times and his sorrow afterwards.
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10-15-2009
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09-30-2009
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09-30-2009
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09-19-2009
and on global scale he's pionting out all the ugly things manking does to it's own, and saying that if god really cares than why all the suffering.
then good mesure it's all wrapped up in analogies from milton's paridise lost.
all together it a supreme work of art.
09-30-2009
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09-06-2009
Not beacause our lives aren't perfect that it is god's fault.
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08-20-2009
"All the pain ain't the same when it's your turn"
Christians teach that God allows us to suffer because we deserve to for our actions.
This line is talking about how We do not deserve the pain we go through and how it would be different if God actually experienced the pain first hand.
Overall, this song covers so many different points that it doesn't really make any sense at all to have one meaning.
Verse 1 is obviously talking about how he feels God has abandoned him, and in doing so, is now suffering and wants to commit sucide and maybe that will give God a heads up that we need him.
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08-06-2009
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06-11-2009
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05-18-2009
The singer is singing out on a field, and his friends are in their house doing nothing, just thinking about life and religion. As the singer continues the song, the sky starts to cloud up and thunder. When the third verse starts, the singer's friends follow him as he walks to the top of hill. The singer screams to the sky, about how he has blood on his hands and is damned. Suddenly, as the chorus starts, lightning strikes the earth, barely missing the singer and his friends, proving that their is a higher power. The song ends with all of the band members looking up into the sky, amazed.
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03-12-2009
"he gave us nothing but no trust"
I remember the inner turmoil I felt years ago, and how I felt a mix of longing, confusion, and hurt when I thought of this all-loving god who seemed so absent. No matter how many believers argue otherwise, I consider it doing nothing when good people suffer. And all for the sake of free will? Are we always supposed to feel like we messed up and deserve this, for this huge sin that all of us have to pay for yet none of us played a part in? And so we're given no trust, from the beginning. It's a terrible feeling.
I agree with a lot of the comments on here about 'god in a nutshell' etc.
And as much as I don't want to engage in any arguments, I can't help but point out, Lil Fitch - "Why should he have to clean up what our own race did? Not like we had to destroy this world, it's not his fault, why should he have to fix it?" - yes, because we all got together to create a giant hurricane.
05-14-2009
Natsky617, all your points are awesome and its cool that you unlike other ppl that flame others, you took the time to explain yourself. But, you said "Are we always supposed to feel like we messed up and deserve this, for this huge sin that all of us have to pay for yet none of us played a part in? And so we're given no trust, from the beginning. It's a terrible feeling." God doesnt want us to hate ourselves and feel bad about ourselves. He, like any parent, just wants to be appreciated and acknowleged. Its like if somone helps a man in a wheelchair across the road, the helper doesnt want the man in the wheelchair to feel useless and weak, the helper is just being nice and wants to be thanked and acknowleged that he helped. another thing is that What you have to realize is that we all play a part in this sin, everyday....i mean one little sin that u or I play a part in represents why the world is how it is. And you said that we are not given trust from the beginning....we are given trust. Say if you had a kid that was so bad, and u just put him up for adoption cuz u didnt want to have to deal with him anymore because you didnt have to. God could destroy this world and start over if he wanted.....but he trusts that no matter what anyone does, that they will change. he puts ALL his trust in us.
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03-07-2009
about a poem based on the bible.
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03-02-2009
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02-24-2009
I thought they were another stupid dime a dozen rap rock band.
Also I hate scene kids, so that doesn't help.
But they actually have some talent as song writers.
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02-23-2009
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01-25-2009
Throughout the verses it's about the different sorts of pain we get (from breaking, hating, etc) just to get what we 'need' (life to continue suffering) or want (peace over dreams away).
:/ I'm probably wrong but I'm thinking: Paradise = Heaven ; Lost = No longer allowed to
The whole burning thing reminds me of going to hell for not being a complete angel yourself and asking all the 'why's in life instead of 'what's.
Usually last songs on albums suck and are left ignored, but this one stands out and just has to be heard. :)
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01-18-2009
but thats just my .02
great song anyway
10-12-2009
We are born into this world of evil, and we are raised to be the way we are, how can we be blamed and punished for the world we never created?
07-02-2009
i also think its kinda like that... i think its about all the messed up things hes done in his life such as drugs and everything said in there other songs.... if god will still accept him
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11-16-2008
christianity, or any other religion for that matter, are for idealistic and naive people, who want to believe theres someone watching over.
atheism - realistic.
theres no over all "force" that can look over us all. a single force couldnt have created a universe spanning infinitely.
03-12-2009
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02-23-2009
Great song, and I agree with with Beast84. Definitely revised poetry.
01-25-2009
god exists thats wat some people think so get the fuck over it will ya?
the song if u ask me is them saying how can u dam us for being wat u made us? imperfect
01-24-2009
Is God willing to prevent evil? But not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is He able? But not willing? Then He is malevolent.
Is He both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is He neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Read Epicurus, he knows where it's at.
01-11-2009
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12-09-2008
Or this earth was created "by science" perfectly, for us "the human race" to live on and create all we have created. And for that matter why isnt any other creature as smart or smarter that the human? Please, tell me how "science" or "No God" created all that?
Anyway,
So this song was about Satans views on hell?
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11-12-2008
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11-12-2008
p.s. Lol I think it's funny when people don't believe in God just because their life isn't perfect.
mattehMONSTER, free will is the reason God doesn't step in. Why should he have to clean up what our own race did? Not like we had to destroy this world, it's not his fault, why should he have to fix it?
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10-12-2008
Racist he makes us, hate us, he gave us Nothing but no trust, and I am so fucked up"
"god" in a nutshell.
if hes so big and clever.
why the balls doesnt he do ANYTHING.
free will and all = BULLSHIT.
god = BULLSHIT.
sorry :)
had to be said.
10-12-2009
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09-30-2008
Only one thing to object about in the lyrics, where it says
"The lies for the liars" is it not:
"The lies for the honest"? I think it makes more sense.
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09-28-2008
fix plz thx.
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