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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