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This is actually an interesting topic.
The song , if considered as poetry, should mean what it means to the listener , or reader , at the time they hear or read it. That would be the ultimate goal of writing I guess, to find a Universal Truth or appeal for each person that participates. It doesn't have to mean what the author meant it to be. The broader the appeal, the more successful the song.
"Some Kind of Paradise" seemed to me to be an everyman's view of the life of Jesus.....or not. Maybe it just said that to me because of my very basic approach to spirituality, my disinterest in dogma and the naive sort of "golden rule" approach that I believe in.
It could be about my Uncle Carl Lanier Garrett. Probably not since the author did not know him, but the song fits him in so many ways that I think of him every time I hear it.
I can't speak for Kevin , but he seems to like a nice intro with the lowered bass. Perhaps it is just art for art's sake but, given the "Silent Night" intro that I have heard attached to this song so many times, it reinforces the spiritual side of it for me.
But then, I'm usually wrong when it comes to interpretations.
Anyone else have a theory before Kevin shows up and points out the errors in my thinking ?
PMG
So, after listening to the song I realized that it is pitched in D but the timbre of the notes in the intro seem to indicate that it is played out of an E chord shape? Anyway, that is how it seems to be today. Yesterday I thought it was Drop D but that is the version I lifted from John Fahey.

Could be.....I would have sworn he has used Silent Night before as well. But then, I have very old and abused ears.
PMG

just got home pulled out my stash of live recordings....the most recent ones have the Christmas song. Thank goodness, for a while I thought( or maybe hoped) I was having auditory hallucinations .
P.