Paradise City

Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
(Take me) 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) Oh, won't you please take me home?

Just an urchin livin' under the street
I'm a hard case that's hard to beat
I'm your charity case, so buy me somethin' to eat
I'll pay you at another time
Freakin' 'til the end of the line

Rags to riches or so they say
Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame
Ya know it's, it's all a gamble when it's just a game
You treat it like a capital crime
Everybody's doin' the 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? Yeah-yeah
Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home

Trapped in the jail 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, yeah-yeah
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? Yeah

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

Jack to the mirror, he's been torn apart
Now he's a cold jester with a frozen heart
He said, "Show 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, yeah-yeah
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, yeah-yeah
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 how good it can be
Oh, won't you please take me home? (Take me home)
Take me down to the Paradise City
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

Take me home (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? (Home)
Take me down (Oh, won't you take me home?)
To the Paradise (Oh, yeah)
Oh, won't you please take me home? (Home)
I wanna see how good it can be (Oh, yeah)
Oh, won't you please take me home?
I wanna see, boy, how good it can be
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? (Oh, won't you take me home?)
I wanna know (Oh, yeah), I wanna know (Oh, yeah)
Oh, won't you please take me home?
Yeah, baby
Yeah