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This song choice reflects how the life cycle works in today's lifestyle. The Lyric the tear falling down from her cheek was like a waterfall should us a lot of how nature and human beings are very alike. The way the tree is decaying in the begin of the spring shows how life is being moved on such as the cycle of day in the lyrics.

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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by
the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast
with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees,
the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces
freshets.We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some
life pasturing freely where we never wander.

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Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night, she'll close her eyes
In the night, the stormy night, away she'd fly

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Paradise Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Refrain]
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

[Verse 1]
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep

[Chorus]
And dreamed of para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
Every time she closed her eyes

[Refrain]
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

[Verse 2]
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
And the bullets catch in her teeth

[Pre-Chorus]
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night, she'd close her eyes
In the night, the stormy night, away she'd fly

[Chorus]
And dream of para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
She'd dream of para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

[Bridge]
La, la-la, la-la-la
La, la-la, la-la-la
La, la-la, la-la-la, la-la
So lying underneath those stormy skies
She said, "Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh I know the sun must set to rise"

[Chorus]
This could be para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
This could be para-, para-, paradise
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
This could be para-, para-, paradise
Para-, para-, paradise
This could be para-, para-, paradise
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
This could be para-, para-, paradise
This could be para-, para-, paradise
This could be para-, para-, paradise
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh

[Refrain]
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

The third track and second single off Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay makes a true masterpiece of the song "Paradise". With its jittery synths, orchestral hooks, thunderous drumming, and falsetto vocals by frontman Chris Martin, this is a win-win for everyone; critics and fans alike.

The song is about how the real world can be escaped through dreams and paradise. In context of the album's concept, it shows how the rebel leader Fly is just some shuteye away. The song describes her obstacles in life, and how she first noticed that the government system in Silencia is corrupted, due to Major Minus.

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What have the artists said about the song?

According to Songfacts, Martin said to MTV News:

It's supposed to be about two people who grow up separately in a very big oppressive city, and they each are a bit lost in their lives. "Paradise" is about a girl really, the female half of the album, just about being a bit lost in the world and escaping through fantasy.

Tim Crompton , Hidefumi Ohbuchi , Nobuyuki Murakami , Deepu Panjwani , Andrew Denny , Ian Shea , Noah Goldstein , Ian Sylvester , David Emery , Pierre Eiras , Matt Green , Ryan Gilligan , Olga Fitzroy , Christian Green , Matt Miller , Matt McGinn , Andy Rugg , Marcos Tovar , Robin Baynton , Rik Simpson , Daniel Green & Markus Dravs

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Tim Crompton , Hidefumi Ohbuchi , Nobuyuki Murakami , Deepu Panjwani , Andrew Denny , Ian Shea , Noah Goldstein , Ian Sylvester , David Emery , Pierre Eiras , Matt Green , Ryan Gilligan , Olga Fitzroy , Christian Green , Matt Miller , Matt McGinn & Andy Rugg

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Romanticism consists primarily of nature. It is believed that one can find peace when in solitude where there are no outside forces trying to distract. Since romanticism relies heavily on the natural world there is a strong clash between science and nature. They believe in the supernatural and tend to listen to their heart over their mind. Unlike romanticism, transcendentalism rely on oneself to achieve enlightenment. They reject any religious structure as they believe that humans have the power to find answers by themselves not by a higher being.

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Thoreau is trying to explain that people will find their truest form in solitude. They are not distracted by all the trivial things of life such as money and other materialistic possessions. When people are alone they have a clearer mindset which allows them to explore and think deeply. Thoreau feels that people are narcissistic in that they think they are the only ones in the universe which in reality is far from the truth. We humans are nothing but a tiny speck in an overwhelming, gigantic black space.

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"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail"(Thoreau 208).

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear..."(Thoreau 208).

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The exaggerating point that Thoreau was giving on this page was the fact that no one was willing to risk putting out the flames even if it was the church set on fire. They were careless and didn't care who set the fire or who puts the fire out. In their society they only seemed interested in their self. Proving my  point "I might almost say, but would forsake all and follow that sound, not mainly to save property from the flames, but, if we will confess the truth, much more to see it burn, since burn it must, and we, be it known, did not set it on fire,-or to see it put out, and have a hand in it, if that is done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself." (Thoreau 209)

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The market revolution initiated the moving away from the simplicity of American life to a more set structure of producing goods for sale to others. It sparked a turn in the modern commercial industry worldwide. In the 18th century it was difficult to sell goods because transportation over land was time consuming and expensive. Innovations such as the steam boat, railroads, and telegraph made it easier for people to communicate and transport their goods in a quick fashion. This changed how people lived. Before people lived a more simple life where they had the freedom to rise and go to work any time they want. Everything changed as more people  started working in factories and had a superior controlling their lives. This sparked the transcendentalism movement as some people thought that this change in society steered humans from finding peace in the simplicity of life through nature and solitude.