Paradise City (Live in Tokyo / 1992)

Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro] [?] [Chorus] Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? Look out [Instrumental Break] [Verse 1] Just a 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 Beat it [Verse 2] Rags to richеs, or so they say, you gotta Keep pushin' for the fortune and famе You know it's all a gamble when it's just a game Treat it like a capital crime Everybody's doin' the time [Chorus] Take me down, Paradise City Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Won't you take me home? Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green (And the) girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? [Verse 3] Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber Why I'm here, I can't quite remember Surgeon General says it's hazardous to breathe Have another cigarette, but I can't see Tell me who you're gonna believe [Chorus] Take me down (To the) Paradise City Where the grass is green (And the) girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? Take me down (To the) Paradise City Where the grass is green (And the) girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? [Instrumental Break] [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] So far away So far away So far away So far away [Verse 4] Captain America's been torn apart He's a court jester with a broken heart "Turn me around and take me back to the start" Must be losin' my mind, "Are you blind?" I seen it all a million times [Chorus] Take me down (To the) Paradise City Where the grass is green (And the) girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green (And the) girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? Take it! (Take me down, spin me 'round) Won't ya take me home? Take me down (to the) Paradise City Where the grass is green (And the) girls are pretty Won't ya take me home? Yeah [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] I wanna go, I wanna know Won't ya take me home? I wanna see how good it can be Won't ya take me home? Oh, yeah [Outro] Baby! Please! Tokyo! Good fuckin' night! Yeah!