Goodbye Kiss (To Paradise)

[Teratogen]

Goodbye Kiss (To Paradise)

Descending upon Paradise came the angel Michael
With his visions of the future he unfurled for me
My fall from grace began with this vicious cycle
And continued on its self-fulfilling prophecy
He told me the world, oh, the world will end in flood
But he never told me life would be fair
There’s a kind of satisfaction in the failure of love
A kind of comfort in solitude and despair

Oh, but the signs that were sent were so precise
Giving doubt to reason was my only vice

Ooh, Michael, I am but a fool for this
Ooh, Michael, grant me just one more goodbye kiss
To Paradise

The beasts and lovers climb aboard the ark of hope
And sail the tides of doom in pairs and sevens
Confusion dams the passage in their struggle to cope
With the fate of all of their hells and all their heavens
But here, oh, right here there resides a deeper sign
One that I can’t seem to comprehend
My heart becomes hardened to the garden’s holy shrine
And the lonely world outside will be so hard to defend

Oh, but the world before us now will just have to suffice
To claim a stake in love we must pay the price

Ooh, Michael, I am but a fool for this
Ooh, Michael, grant me just one more goodbye kiss
To Paradise

Though it’s hard to understand
A man is just a man
I’ve given all I can

And in with Michael’s plan
We both walked hand in hand
And stopped at the gates of Eden
To look behind
Before our exodus
Towards the Promised Land

Nine hundred thirty years and nothing to make sense
Of this, our transgression we must now begin
Chained to the labors of first disobedience
From the impossibility of a paradise within
And now, oh baby, now from one world we build another
From beneath the soil to the clouds above
And without providence you know we still have each other
For when I threw it all away I did it all for love

You gave me your innocence, your broken heart of ice
I gave you my ignorance, my golden sacrifice

And, ooh, Michael, I am but a fool for this
Ooh, Michael, grant me just one more goodbye kiss
To Paradise

Ooh, Michael, they promised us eternal bliss
Ooh, Michael, but they gave us the dark abyss

Ooh, Michael, I am but a fool for this
Ooh, Michael, grant me just one more goodbye kiss
To Paradise

[Lion of Lions]

Thank you for writing this song about me.

[j6ppc]

Teratogen - Thank you.

[Teratogen]

You are welcome, though if this song hits close to home I'd like to hear about it.

[Teratogen]

Bump.