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 the world, blurry No help is my inner rage and fury I am lost to a destiny 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