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Daniel Caesar

Paradise

Release date: 14th October 2015

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About This Track

Daniel Caesar builds 'Paradise' around a tension between material ambition and spiritual doubt. The track opens with a spoken intro that sets the stakes: survival, money, the refusal to be paralysed by stress. Caesar's own verses trace a lineage of conflict, from his father's disappointment to his own wrestling with faith and forgiveness. He doesn't resolve the contradiction; instead he inhabits it, cycling through the chorus refrain that frames this life as something chosen, something earned through labour. Sean Leon's verse sharpens the moral arithmetic. He sketches a figure caught between competing versions of devotion: the woman left at the altar, the God worshipped like the self, the hundred verses written in place of Sunday service. The production, credited to Jordan Evans and Matthew Burnett alongside Caesar, sits in a space between restraint and pressure, letting the voices breathe whilst the rhythmic pulse tightens around them. What emerges is not a sermon but a conversation, one that refuses easy answers about what it means to build something for yourself.

"Paradise" is a track by Daniel Caesar, from the album Pilgrim’s Paradise, released 14th October 2015. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Paradise

[Intro: Keavan Yazdani]

Lil' nigga you gotta light a fire

This is far, far from the East my G

You far far away

A real man, be really getting his fuckin' money, my nigga

Why you stressed?

Life is not that sad baby bro

Get up and get off of your ass and get this fuckin' money

[Chorus: Daniel Caesar]

I gotta make something for myself, myself

Don't forget you chose this life

Welcome to your paradise

Lay in your bed, reap what you sow

Welcome to your paradise

[Verse 1: Daniel Caesar]

I used to stand on the rocks, I used to stand on the rock

On the Rock of Gibraltar

Father told me I faltered

Picking fights with my pops

He asked forgiveness a lot

But I don't need God's forgiveness

Can I get me a witness

[Pre-Chorus: Daniel Caesar]

I could cry, but I gotta pick my battles tonight, tonight

I could cry, I'll be fighting for the rest of my life, my life

[Chorus: Daniel Caesar]

Don't forget you chose this life

Welcome to your paradise

Lay in your bed, reap what you sow

Welcome to your paradise

[Verse 2: Sean Leon]

Do you wanna be your father? Or do you wanna take it farther

Leave the woman that you'd break your heart for at the altar

'Cause you were offered a life that you would trade your heart for

Ain't gotta die to see heaven, I got your heaven nigga

Would rather rev on an engine than ever reverend, nigga

Black sheeps packing weapons in 911's, nigga

How could worship be worth it?

You love your God like yourself

So you deserve to be perfect

You deserve for your car to skrrt and your girl to be skirtless

Fuck on a Saturday nigga, miss Sunday service

You made you a hundred verses, a hundred verses

That's why you need you a hundred virgins, a hundred virgins

Yeah, you wear your crown with a frown sometimes

You can't help but feel down at times

You were raised in the basement

You used to pray on your spaceship

[Outro: Daniel Caesar]

I gotta make something for myself, myself

If you want to get this money, come and join me

If you want to get this money, come and join me

If you want to get this money, come and join me

If you want to get this money, come and join me

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Daniel Caesar, Sean Leon
    Composer
    BADBADNOTGOOD, Jordan Evans, Matthew Burnett
    Producer
    BADBADNOTGOOD, Jordan Evans, Matthew Burnett
    Engineer
    Matthew Tavares
    Bass
    Chester Hansen
    Drums
    Alex Sowinski
    Keyboards
    Matthew Tavares
    Mixing Engineer
    Riley Bell
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