> So I just wistfully clicked on my link to Jim's blog,
> shocked to see that his last posting was a ghastly 9
> months ago, and I wound up re-reading his lyrics to "The
> Devil's Playground," and was surprised to find them much
> more striking and poignant than I remembered them being
> the first go-round.
There's some really good stuff...
'In the blink of an eye, the Devil’s Playground is born again! The Devil’s Playground is alive again!'
'Thousand of tombstones, just waiting for the names'
The whole 'Paradise Lost' section.
...but the whole thing seems disjointed, with no structure (that I can recognise).
To be fair to Jim, he did say the lyrics were 'not even first draft', and I would suggest that if he continued to work on it, the lyrics will have changed a lot?
Also, if we ever hear it with music, it would make a lot more sense?
> Can any of you Neverland historians shed some light on
> potential motivation for Hook here?
The only thing that makes sense (to me) is that 'Paradise' in the song is 'Obsidian', and Hook's dreams of a huge 'antiseptic bubble' have been shattered?
BTW - Probably because Jim had refined these 'Paradise Lost' lyrics previously, they are the most cohesive in the whole 'Devil's Playground' song, but they don't seem to fit with what has been said beforehand?
"No matter
How heavy the cost
To this very day
I can stand tall and say:
I fought for Paradise
But Paradise lost
I fought for Paradise
And Paradise lost.
It wasn’t your fault or mine
Wasn’t this it wasn’t that
But Paradise lost
In the final at bat
Paradise lost
In the last at bat."
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