Love is a Gamble

I may have come of age (that is to say, I graduated from high school) in the early '90s, but the soundtrack of my era was the '80s.  The radio stations that now play " '80s, '90s, and today" back then played music from the 1970s and 1980s.  Now when I listen to the '80s station on satellite radio, I realize how much of the music really infiltrated my younger years. 
I had to explain to my children the concept of 1980's power ballads after they observed me laughing through "Lost in the Woods" in the movie Frozen 2.  They couldn't understand just what was so funny.
One power ballad I recall listening to had one of those confused lyrics that a ten-year-old me pondered.  At the time I liked songs, not bands, per se; however, I liked Starship's three #1 songs: "We Built This City"; "Sara"; and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".  The song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" often made me realize that lyrics aren't always what they sound like.
This song that was featured in the movie Mannequin (a rather strange movie that actually has a sequel!) begins with the line "Looking in your eyes I see a paradise". The way the singer pronounces the word "paradise" always made me think he was saying "pair a dice".  I knew there was no way he could look into a person's eyes and see dice (although it does give a hilarious meaning to "snake eyes". . .Voldemort, perhaps?  "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now" the Death Eater version? Harry Potter and the Starship--Ahem, I digress. . .); therefore, the word had to be "paradise".
Little did I realize my mistaken lyrics would resurface.  Recently I have been reading books by author Francine Rivers, and her book Redeeming Love has a Gold Rush town in 1850s California named--you guessed it--"Pair-a-Dice"!  With the name of the town, it is a clear pun with so many men taking a gamble on finding paradise in gold, and finding a wilderness of lawlessness.  There is an actual city of Paradise, California, in the Gold Rush area.  The town was supposedly named after a saloon called "Pair o Dice", but there is little evidence for that.
I still listen to the " '80s, '90s, and today" radio stations, and I do like the music from the turn of the century as well as from my childhood. This gives me more opportunities to find more confusing lyrics.