Utopia regained in some way or other. One way might be a quest for an "earthly paradise"—a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by James Hilton in his utopian novel "Lost Horizon" (1933). Christopher Columbus followed directly in this tradition in his belief that he had found the Garden of Eden when, towards the end of the 15th century, he first encountered the New World and its indigenous inhabitants. Utopia A utopia ( ) is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is
Lost in Paradise (song) he requested the band record the song for "Evanescence". Lee credits Raskulinecz for the idea of the full band joining in mid-way through the song. Lee went to Toronto's Liberty Studios on August 22, 2011, to preview five mastered songs from "Evanescence" to a selected crowd of thirty people, including "Lost in Paradise". During an interview with Fuse in May 2012, the band revealed that it would be released as the album's third overall single. Wind-Up Records released the digital single on May 25, 2012. "Lost in Paradise" is a symphonic rock, piano and power ballad, inspired by Lee's love