While on her One Bad Night Tour, Hayley revealed that this song was about her experiences having crushes on girls while in middle school. Not ready to come out and not completely aware of what the crushes meant, she said she would come home from school and imagine a paradise where people accepted he...
[Verse 1]
False start, you sleepyhead
I'm caught up in the day with my night dreams and my mistakes
Tell your vision, “no, you're acting"
The little boys go on pretending, they're wide awake
[Pre-Chorus]
I'll settle on the dust, settle on the dust
[Chorus]
But I've got better luck in my head
We're just ghosts inside my bed
I've got better luck in my head
Playing poker with the dead
This side of paradise, this side of paradise
This side of paradise, this side of paradise
[Verse 2]
I'm not here, nor anywhere
I wanna be with you, you're unaware
I'm a paper weight
I fantasize, a secret life and place where we hide
It feels right
[Pre-Chorus]
I'll settle on the dust, settle on the dust
[Chorus]
But I've got better luck in my head
We're just ghosts inside my bed
I've got better luck in my head
Playing poker with the dead
This side of paradise, this side of paradise
This side of paradise, this side of paradise
[Bridge]
I don't want to be anywhere else
Than anywhere else but here (this is my paradise)
I don't want to be anywhere else
Than anywhere else but here (this is my paradise)
I don't want to be anywhere else
Than anywhere else but here (this is my paradise)
I don't want to be anywhere else
Than anywhere else but here (this is my paradise)
[Chorus]
Cause I've got better luck in my head
We're just ghosts inside my bed
I've got better luck in my head
Playing poker with the dead
This side of paradise, this side of paradise
This side of paradise, this side of paradise
This Side of Paradise was written by Sergei Ramos & Hayley Kiyoko.
This Side of Paradise was produced by James Flannigan.
Hayley Kiyoko released This Side of Paradise on Wed Nov 12 2014.