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The meaning of the lyrics of the song "Paradise" by the artist "Wild Nothing"

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Wild Nothing's "Paradise" explores the yearning for love and seeking solace in it, even if it means embracing deception. The lyrical protagonist is captivated by a "dancer in the night", potentially symbolizing illusion or fleeting infatuation. He pleads with her to lie, to convince him that "love is paradise."

The ensuing enumeration of love's forms across different tenses evokes a sense of all-encompassing and timeless emotion. However, the text starting with "Everything was love" presents a stark contrast. It resembles a passage from Iris Murdoch's novel "The Word Child," describing a transcendental experience, a mystical epiphany.

The "huge eye" transforming into a "big, amazing animal" symbolizes the fluidity of perception and reality itself. The "place of reconciliation" represents a state of forgiveness and acceptance, attainable through forgiving oneself and others.

The final lines circle back to the initial motif, illustrating the cyclical nature of desiring and seeking love, even if it's built on illusions. "Paradise" in the song becomes less of a place and more of a state, achieved through forgiveness and acceptance, as portrayed in the novel excerpt.

Dancer in the night

Playing with my eyes.

Velvet tongue so sweet

Say anything you like.

Crush me with the lies

And tell me once or twice

That love is paradise,

That love is paradise

Amo

Amas

Amat

Amamus

Amatis

Amant

Amavi

Amavisti

Amavit

Amavimus

Amavistis

Amaverunt

Amavero

Amaveris

Amaverit

Everything was love

Everything will be love

Everything has been love

Everything would be love

Everything would have been love

Ahh...that was it. The truth at last

Everything would have been love

The huge eye which would have become an immense fear was gently breathing only without an eye, nor a sphere

But our great wonderful animal, covered in little waving legs like hairs

Waving, oh so gently as if they were underwater

All should be went and all should be well said that ocean

So the place of reconciliation existed after all

Not like a little, not wholly uncovered, but flowing everywhere and being everything

I had only to will it and I would be

For spirit is omnipotent, only I never knew it

And being able to walk on the Earth

I could forgive. I could be forgiven

I could forgive. Perhaps that was the whole of it after all

Perhaps being forgiven is just forgiving and no one had ever told me

There was nothing else needful

Just to forgive

Forgiving equals being forgiven

The secret of the universe

Do not whatever you do forget it

The past was folded out and in the twinkle of an eye and everything had been changed

And made beautiful and good

Dancer in the night

Playing with my eyes.

Velvet tongue so sweet

Say anything you like.

Crush me with the lies

And tell me once or twice

That love is paradise,

That love is paradise.

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