Newdrivehome Blog #7
(Joe Salazar – “Paradise Ends”)
It was only amount of time before I brought one of my own songs into this blog. I think this song was my favorite writing and recording. I recorded this song at the beginning of 2011, a year after my divorce and I asked my friend Kill Paradise for help with production. I was a fan of KP and the Denver music scene that was explosive around that time when I first moved out there early 2006 and I befriended, made music, and spent a lot of time with a lot of those I looked up to.
I don’t think any of those friends I met around that time ever knew, although distant, how much their friendship meant to me. Nick of Kill Paradise produced my first two singles in 2007 and also did “Paradise Ends”. I was never living in Denver long amounts of time…because my journey went other ways but I still talk to most to this day. Obviously life gets busy but it feels good knowing I’m still able to get in touch with those that helped build who I became to this day.
I wrote “Paradise Ends” about a girl I met after my divorce…when I was a mess. She was easily the most unique and intelligent person Ive ever met and although I wished it could become more than it was at that point (a fling, a few dates, several nights of enjoying time together) I always knew we were both growing and it would eventually end.
There was a night when we were finishing our second bottle of wine and had just finished microwaving a DVD copy of a terrible movie called “The Lake House”, laying in bed at her place unable to sleep, as she slept…I realized how temporary this felt and I didn’t want the night to end…because in the morning, I knew this paradise would end. And it did. I remember the start of the writing of this song, hearing her sleep and hoping she dreamed of this working…
It started there and it took a drive to the studio months later to record the feeling. It added to the heartbreak I was feeling but I’ll never regret the time spent. It was like the Un-condensed part of a com-rom that is still yet to end. I’ve never told anyone this publicly, but this song will always hold a special place in my heart.
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