WELCOME TO PARADOX with Pablo Molina // Share this video now.

Shot in Bahia, Brazil.
Edited by AFTR Productions, Melbourne.

Lyrics:

WELCOME TO PARADOX

Roll up, roll up
welcome to the circus
enter through the gates
prepare to leave the surface
the first presentation’s well beyond the earth
the planets will play trapeze
the stars are getting nervous

Shine for a minute
as the people arrive
get the crowd in position
align all the spotlights
this bearded lady’s got permission to speak
this strong man’s ready to master the ceremony

Roll up, roll up
hold on to your hats it’s
time to see the planets turn upon their axis
time to see the actors
revel in the action
the puppets try and change the whole planet with their factions

Roll up

let me put on my mask

just to reveal to the people all I hide in my heart.

I’m making diamonds from coal

redefining my craft

to give you something to hold

give you some kind of love.

I’ll give you all that I am
as I’m holding my pen
I put my stress and my strength beneath this circus tent

I have practiced every placement
put chalk upon the pavement
the rabbits in their hats
and left my sweat up on these stages

I’ve juggled all the haters
set fire to their phrases
now I know it’s time to let my lions out their cages

But I won’t jump through your hoops
I balance along the lines to redefine the truth
use all my nine lives till my time is due
the who’s who of Houdinis shooting right through the roof

I’m pursuing my purpose
persecuting my burdens
the curvature of the earth
is turning into a circus

They say it’s us versus them

I’m just focusing on my verses

They try to get us trapped in that box
it’s not welcome to paradise
it’s welcome to paradox

// WELCOME TO PARADOX //

So everything is paradoxical
optimal health isn’t found in your hospital
making money normal
ethics becoming optional
and horrible people are being following like they’re oracles

Those with monopolies
suffer moral poverty
those with the power
only preaching their hypocrisies

Those that have less
have more to share
those that have more
have more to protect

But I know
they try and lie and fight the truth
the pied piper’s alive trying to hide the proof
my mind’s eye says it’s high time we fight for the youth
align with the youth
redesign with the youth

There’s companies taking over democracies
and the most powerless?
well, they keep them under lock and key

They try to keep them trapped in that box
it’s not welcome to paradise
it’s welcome to paradox

//

Shot by Eric in Chiapada Diamantina, Brazil.
Edited by AFTR Productions.
All instruments played / looped live by Pablo Molina
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