Deep Water Suite V: Nightmare in Paradise

They’ve televised the murders

So many times I’m bored

As I stretch into the ether

Man, I still can’t pull the cord

My golden parachute’s dropping fast

I’ve seen the dentist and I breathed his gas

Tomorrow’s looming like a heart attack

 

Like anightmare in paradise

Where our paradigms are like parasites

When you own the world, but it’s not enough

So you comb the evening pages, and you try to fill the gulf

There’s still so much I have to consume

As photos of gadgets galore fill the room

It’s like an itch I just have to scratch

I think Oxycodone has met its match

 

And this is how the surface wins

As the deep becomes an embarrassment

We sleepwalk into push and shove

Still looking for our one true love

 

It’s a nightmare in paradise

Where our paradigms are like parasites

And you own the world, but it’s not enough

So you comb the evening pages, and you try to fill the gulf

 

Nightmare in paradise

Where the silence screams its violence like the serpent’s sound advice

But there are no heights, no hidden pearls

As we stay safe in our rat race in our isolated worlds

 

I have just one hope

Like the time before when I awoke

Leave the carrot stick dangling then

When I face the fear and the opinions of men

I will be free again

I will be free again