"Paradise" lyrics

All I wanted was true love
There was a mountain of pain
We came around it, together
Then we did it again
We found that love was a hot rod
Warm and sticky and wet
Blazing the trail of forgiveness
For those who can forget

Riding into paradise

Our eyes were lighted with wonder
Our flesh was kindled with flame
All values and reason went under it
The wind blew away all the names
It was all touch [?] naked
Baring our souls to the light
Everything shimmering and shaking
Universes were born in our sight

Riding into paradise

The landscape was littered with bodies
All bound by the blindness of death
Cocooned in a kind of confusion
Waiting the grace of new breath
And many an old companion
Saw to shut out the light of our eyes
But we said, "There's no understanding
The ways of the true and the wise"

So we shone our radiance upon them
And a coldness reached out for our minds, but
We called out from deep in the silence
"We are free, we are one of a kind"
Then a chasm opened before us
That swallowed the dark and the light
And both she and I will bare witness
That we both disappeared from sight

Riding into paradise

We couldn't stand our aloneness
With no shoulder to cry upon
In a world that was losing its conscience
We were each other's religion
And dissatisfied with information
Looking through the eyes of the heart
We we still searching for true love
While our lives were falling apart
She said, "We are here in this moment
Where our hearts are always broken anew"
I said "Standing apart is the torment"
And we rose as the wind and we blew
We were one with the grass and the [?]
And the creatures of death and of birth
And we stood with these friends and delivered
The sermon that creates the earth

Riding into paradise