in memory of tyler paradise

words and singing and guitar by garrett


paradise shines in nostalgia 
but nostalgia is a curse from all gods
as the years go on i tell yah
it’s a pox on every home and lawn

photographs show you something 
this and that and what you have sowed
it doesn’t get easy i tell yah
at least you know you know you know

and i wonder what motherfucker said ‘if you love something let it go’
when what you love is taken from you
how can you let it go
how could you let it go
when boundless love is all you hold

it’s true that the secret of life
is held in a tiny seed
something that you don’t think about
til it winds up stuck in your teeth

you try to pick it out with the tip of a sword
til your smile is bleedin red
but you wonder if it was there at all
are you livin in your head your head your head

‘

i just wish i knew the end was coming 
so i could have said goodbye
life is strange and cruel 
the world doesn’t pick a side
to give love and be loved
is a miracle to suffice
and in the end
there lies paradise

‘

paradise (version)

Flaming Sword

Sundance

Wooden Sword

Supreme Thunder (no Sword)

Just Say No

Whole Wide World

King Of Swords

Hiraeth

Sword Fern

Mill Pond