Back To Paradise (Song)

1.

 

Take me back to where the flowers sing;

sea of colours in the summer wind;

blue Nirvana of the summer sky;

golden temple bell that rings on high.

 

2.

 

Take me back to where sweet bird song flows.

Songs are sermons; hearing them, I know

a guiding light glows out of each green leaf;

the breath of god is in the air I breathe.

 

Chorus:

 

Take me back to paradise.

I don’t believe the serpent lies

that I was told.

 

Back to scenes of emerald green

for now I know how much they mean;

much more than gold.

 

 

3.

 

Back to clear skies on which starlight grows;

lillies of silver in blue fields of night;

or milk that, down from mother heaven, flows

feeding my soul upon their beauty, bright.

 

4.

 

And to clear streams that, like a tinkling, shine;

making me merry like a crate of wine;

sparkling like the sweet laughter of a child

or God’s first children in their Eden wild.

 

Chorus:

 

Take me back to paradise.

I don’t believe the serpent lies

that I was told.

 

Back to scenes of emerald green

for now I know how much they mean;

much more than gold.