Paradise City

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

Just another scene livin' under the street
I'm a hard case that's tough to beat
I'm your charity case, the band is open to weep
I'll pay you at another time
Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches, or so they say
You 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? 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 comes from dawn to the pines
Now he's a court jester with a broken heart and spine
He said, "Show me around and send 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

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