Paradise Mercifully Departed

I had all that life could possible give
A life of ease, a life nice to live
But in the end I was defeated, outsmarted
And instead of death, paradise mercifully departed
Barren is the land that I now wander
I have been drawn asunder
A life not for the fainthearted
Paradise mercifully departed

I am now like a ghost
My paradise lost
Cold is the sun like winters frost
My paradise lost

My eyes, bloodshot and thе world, blurry
No help is my inner rage and fury
I am lost to a dеstiny in chaos entwined
A crimson knot that cannot unwind

I had all that life could possible give
A life of ease, a life nice to live
But in the end I was defeated, outsmarted
And instead of death, paradise mercifully departed
Barren is the land that I now wander
I have been drawn asunder
A life not for the fainthearted
Paradise mercifully departed

My name was Rufus but now it doesn’t matter at all
Never again, it seems, will I stand tall
This is the beginning of my downfall
My tears flow like a waterfall

Between myself and everything else, an invisible wall
The last I remember was a day in fall
I think I was possibly, maybe, in a shopping mall
But what matters it now, nothing at all

I had all that life could possible give
A life of ease, a life nice to live
But in the end I was defeated, outsmarted
And instead of death, paradise mercifully departed
Barren is the land that I now wander
I have been drawn asunder
A life not for the fainthearted
Paradise mercifully departed