Close to Paradise

Lyrics

[Antonio Villanueva] Well, I, I arrive here in the late '60, '69 I think it was And I found a paradise, something then I couldn't believe I mean, it was a beautiful place with fantastic weather And the payéses and the extranjeros, they were here They were, most of them were Americans, Canadians, Swedish And, um, painters, artists Fantastic people, there were no classes The houses, they were open, nobody closed the doors It was a great, great, uh, life [Armin Heinneman] I came in 1972 And, um, I came, I arrived to an island which was virgin nature And sunny, there's flowers and everything was green and Uh, it was just so overwhelming that I couldn't believe it It just, uh, it just hit me so strongly That I, uh, felt like being in paradise [Anna Maria Riccó] In Spanish, it's Anna Maria "Noche y Día" It's mean Ana Maria "Day and Night" Because I was everywhere I don't want to lose one minute of this party Or in the beach or in the discotheques Everywhere I was, I tried to be All around the island, always twenty-four hours I was sleeping nothing Just few hours sometimes when my body was going to die When I start to work in Pacha They tell me, "You can be go-go dancer" And I said, "Yes, but please with one clause At five o'clock in the morning, I want to go away" And then, the boss of the dancer in this time She say the, "Okay, you can do it, but straight up Don't say this to anyone And when it's five o'clock, you just take the door and go where you want" And so, five o'clock every night, when I finished work I ran to dance in another discotheque and I ran to Ku to make more friends here around Like this, uh, it was okay [Rossetta Montenegro] The minute I came here Just getting out of the plane, landing in Ibiza I knew this was my place forever I don't know, even the smell I adored I felt this is my home My name is Rossetta Montenegro, I was born in Venezuela But I live many part of the planet so I got to meet so many people Everyone came to see me in Ibiza during those days and now still I work in, um Pacha, I work in Ku, I work in Amnesia I work in all over the places here Imagine Ibiza in the '72, used to live with the payéses And, uh, they were really nice people, you know They didn't get impress about our outfits that were really freak You know, I mean, we were freak We used to get whatever A bottle of Coke, we'd cut it and we'd make, uh Two things for a bra, you know? It was really funny The fantasy that all the people used to have that time At least at that time, we used to have two or three pareo You can, you wear it on the head, over the, the shoulders as a child And we only carry a basket, this Incan basket With all our stuff there So we didn't have to go to our house to get things, you know No, it was easy going You know, we used to go to the disco without, barefoot In bathing suits with a pareo And sometimes, people naked Full of colors and things, you know, but, uh, flowers all over [Tanit] Going close to paradise, but we took the wrong way I don't know, maybe this is the right way, we don't know, but It didn't go the way we were expecting When I say "we," I'm talking about All these freaks then we had dreams Somebody asked me about her and then, "What do you think about that?" And I say that would've been, that's what I really believed It was a paradise, absolute paradise Somehow, it took a way then became what it is now And I'm sure people that arrive now are still thinking that that's a paradise Definitely it's not the paradise that we knew, it's another paradise But maybe now is the, I don't know, I'm not sure about anything Reality is not the same for everybody, so We use the words in a way like if it is an absolute truth, that don't exist That makes the thing more complicated