Heavenly Father, don’t let me down.

Paradise is a prayer — a song that asks Heavenly Father for guidance, and wonders whether the world we make is a hell or a paradise.

It opens as a prayer: “Heavenly Father, don’t let me down. Tell me what I’m needing, what’s going on?” A heavenly mother, “looking like an angel, forgiving grace.” It’s a song about looking for direction when you’re not sure what’s happening — and about the people, here and above, who carry you through it.

The chorus is the search itself: “Will, will I find some peace, roaming through these streets of golden towns? Will, will I find my home, somewhere I can know I belong?” The heavenly father helps find “my sea of secrets, and my dreams at night.” The heavenly mother “gave me life.”

And the heart of it is a choice: “So the world’s what we make it, a hell or paradise.” In the second verse, “Heavenly brother, I won’t stand alone. Prayers are my power, they give me hope.” Franklin McKay and Greg Fitzgerald wrote it — Easy Rock, 120 BPM, © 2019.