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Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City

Singers: Guns N' Roses
Albums: Guns N' Roses – Guns N' Roses - Hit Parader magazine in 1988, that the verses are more about being in the jungle; the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere.
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Lyrics Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City

Text:

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty

Oh, won’t you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won’t you please take me home

Just an urchin livin’ under the street
I’m a hard case that’s tough to beat
I’m your charity case
So buy me somethin’ to eat
I’ll pay you at another time
Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches or so they say
Ya gotta-keep pushin’ for the fortune and fame
You know it’s, it’s all a gamble
When it’s just a game
You treat it like a capital crime
Everybody’s doin’ their time

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won’t you please take me home
Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green

And the girls are pretty
Take me home

Strapped in the chair of the city’s gas chamber
Why I’m here I can’t quite remember
The surgeon general says it’s hazardous to breathe
I’d have another cigarette, but I can’t see
Tell me who you’re gonna believe

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home
Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won’t you please take me home

So far away
So far away
So far away
So far away

Captain America’s been torn apart
Now he’s a court jester with a broken heart
He said
Turn me around and take me back to the start
I must be losin’ my mind—»Are you blind?»
I’ve seen it all a million times

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home
Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won’t you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home
Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won’t you please take me home

Home
Home
I wanna go
I wanna go
Oh won’t you please take me home
I wanna see
Oh won’t you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home
Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won’t you please take me home

Album

Guns N' Roses – Guns N' Roses - Hit Parader magazine in 1988, that the verses are more about being in the jungle; the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere.