Name: Once Paradise
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Channel: Scott Gordon
Description: "Once Paradise" is a song by PANARCHY. Progressive rock song with a pop structure - verses with a light feel but a strong recurring theme all with noticeable Kansas and The Who influences.

Once Paradise

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Progressive rock song with a pop structure - verses with a light feel but a strong recurring theme all with noticeable Kansas and The Who influences.

PANARCHY

PANARCHY is the vehicle for performing the more progressive rock songs written by Scott Gordon. The band was started by Scott Gordon (keyboards/vocals/guitars)

Welcome to PANARCHY - proof positive that the craft of songwriting - intelligent, poignant lyrics, and innovative but sonorous harmony of voices and instruments - is not dead. PANARCHY is for me what UTOPIA was for Todd Rundgren. A real band for the band, in-between my own acoustic solo performing and recording.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Progressive Rock

Charts

Peak #1,000

Peak in subgenre #112

Author

Scott Gordon

Rights

1985 - Scott Gordon

Uploaded

July 31, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 1.4 MB • 56 kbps • 3:34

Story behind the song

I wrote this song about the shame of losing a paradise - influenced perhaps by my early contact with Native American people and literature.  One of my first and still packs enough punch to appear in my live performances.  Somewhere between Kansas "Point of Know Return" and The Who's "Punk Meets the Godfather"

Lyrics

ONCE PARADISE                                 				
1985 - Dallas TX

Once there was the sound
of life all around - it used to make me high
Where the gardens grow
And the clear winds blow - under a clear blue sky
Where the birds sang out 
And the mountains shout - across a lightning sky
There lived the Indian man 
Who grew to love this land - before he watched it die
	-then the men came
	-who felt no shame - as they stole this land
	-who were so unwise
	-turning paradise - into desert sand

In the trees around - there's a lonely sound 
No longer is there sacred ground
And the people hear just what they want to hear
Living in their world of fear
	-and the grass grows, the sun glows
	-how can they miss what they don't know?
	-now the light covers up the night
	-and the helpless creatures live in fright

Once Paradise - 1985 - Scott Gordon

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