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Paradise

(--- speculated lyrics ---)

I've just set myself on fire
"What a thing to do!" you say
Dressed all in silk and mother of pearl
Wrapped around this whole wide world
I blew apart all the things we've known, watch them slowly burn
Watch of our hearts broken in turn
You'd think by now that we would learn
You asked me once why I can't see
I looked you straight in the eye
I felt I looked beyond your shore to a place on high

"Why a fire?" you may ask
"Why smoke comes out your ear?"
Coz if you could've felt the warmth of my touch you'd been my river of tears
Now that this heart of mine's been burnt, I think of all we've seen
Our worlds so close, drawn blue by love
Ablaze, now me, your queen


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Necessary Evil [album] (2007)

written by: Roy Nathanson - YoungGabe Publishing (BMI) & Bill Ware - Ware R U Publishing (BMI)
produced by: Bill Ware
engineered by: Hugo Dwyer

all instruments by: Bill Ware
saxophone: Roy Nathanson

remixes:

[no official remixes available]


comments

quoted from a 'northjersey.com' article - June 18, 2007

"And what about its many different styles? The songs on the new album have everything from a dance-floor beat to sock rock feel to a slick rock sound. (A few are posted at myspace.com/debbieharry.) There's even a song called "Paradise," written from the perspective of a female suicide bomber."

quoted from the VH1.com article 'Deborah Harry: Track by Track':

"It's very timely because it's about suicide, and suicide bombers. I felt that it's such a serious issue and it's also just the weirdest idea about what love is, how a person could actually consider blowing up other human beings because they think they love their God. I realize that the whole album has all these different questions and answers about love, and situations that deal with love. It's not really such a hot topic today in an analytical sense, but every pop song, every rock song, it's about love. I felt like let's make this a banner headline, that this is what we're dealing with."

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