Ah, the heavy teenage girl dramas of the Shangri-Las. So much pain and heartache. If only some boy would come along, on a motorcycle, take her to the beach, away from her awful home life, but what if she doesn't like him, and she breaks his heart, and then she breaks her mother's heart, and it all just sucks so much!!
Paradise was first recorded by the Ronettes. It is a daydream fantasy about how perfect life will be once a boy falls for her. She imagines flowers, rainbows, castles, and mountains. Until the boy comes along, however, I guess she'll just continue to read teen magazines and cry into her pillow.
album: Myrmidons of Melodrama
