Paradise Lost | ||
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Length: | 3:11 | |
Released: | September 2, 2008 | |
Writers: | Deuce, Don Gilmore, Johnny 3 Tears | |
Producer: | Don Gilmore | |
Key: | D minor | |
Tempo: | 129 BPM | |
Album: | Hollywood Undead Swan Songs |
Paradise Lost is a song from Hollywood Undead's debut album, Swan Songs. It was created in 2007 under the title of Paradise Lost (His Dark Material), and was intended for release on Hollywood Undead.
Background[]
Johnny 3 Tears explained this song to Artist Direct: "Deuce and I worked on that song together. It's my thoughts on Christianity and the Western World. It's a little more serious than most Hollywood Undead stuff is, but we wanted to make a song of that magnitude. That's pretty much it. The Midwest and the Red States have this blind belief in everything. Everyone else is struggling to fix the world, while they're just trying to hold it in place where it shouldn't be. They're just martyrs for whatever they believe. I have strong disagreements with the whole thing. Not with Christianity, but what people do as a product of that. We wanted to make a song that impacted people to look in a different direction around them instead of upwards."
Official Lyrics[]
Johnny 3 Tears: 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
It's this life that's so thankless, how could He just forsake us?
It 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 die by this lust
And once we are just dust, He'll know that he loved us!
Deuce: Let it all burn, I will burn first
God, I've 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?
Johnny 3 Tears: So take me and make me weak and then 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, we're the gods of the godless
Deuce: Let it all burn, I will burn first
God, I've 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?
So cry three tears for me
Deuce and Johnny 3 Tears: When it's all gone, sing me this song
Deuce: So cry three tears for me
Deuce and Johnny 3 Tears: When it's all gone, when it's all gone!
Johnny 3 Tears: I cannot 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
Deuce: Let it all burn, I will burn first
God, I've 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?
Deuce and Johnny 3 Tears: This hate that you gave me keeps saying!
Just let me burn, just let me burn
This hate that you gave me keeps saying!
Just let me burn, just let me burn
Burn!
Deuce: (Now!)
Deuce and Johnny 3 Tears: Burn!
Deuce: Just let me burn
(Now!)
Deuce and Johnny 3 Tears: Burn!
Burn!
Background vocals[]
- Charlie Scene harmonizes behind Johnny 3 Tears on the bridge.
Personnel[]
- Hollywood Undead
- Charlie Scene - background vocals, guitar
- Deuce - piano, vocals
- Johnny 3 Tears - vocals
- Additional
- Don Gilmore - production
- Ben Grosse - mixing
- Mark Kiczula - engineering
- Fox Phelps - additional programming
- Danny Lohner - additional engineering, additional guitars, additional programming
- B.C. Smith - programming
- John Tempesta - drums
Trivia[]
- This song was made by Johnny 3 Tears as dedication to his favorite book, Paradise Lost.
- A live version of this song is featured as a track on Desperate Measures.
- This song was intended for release on Hollywood Undead under the title Paradise Lost (His Dark Material).
- This is one of the few songs to feature only two vocalists, with the others being Cashed Out, Circles, Ghost, I'll Be There, Kill Everyone, Lion, Outside, Party By Myself, Pour Me, Pray (Put 'Em in the Dirt), S.C.A.V.A., Take Me Home, and The Diary.
- Shady Jeff cited "Paradise Lost" as one of his influences on his MySpace page.
- During live performances, Da Kurlzz usually performed a drum solo before the bridge.
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