GUNS N' ROSES - PARADISE CITY

PARADISE CITY

GUNS N' ROSES

SONGWRITERS: AXL ROSE; SLASH(SAUL HUDSON); & IZZY STRADLIN

WHERE: LIVE RITZ NYC 2011

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: APPETITE OF DESTRUCTION

LABEL: GEFFEN RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 1987

"Paradise City" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction(1987). It was released as a single in November 1988. It is also the only song on the album to feature a synthesizer. It is most known for its iconic lyrics, "Take me down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." It is also frequently played at sports stadiums during games along with "Welcome to the Jungle", also from Appetite for Destruction. The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's third single to reach the Top 10 in the U.S, and number six on the UK Singles Chart..

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

(Oh, won't you please take me home)

Just an urchin livin' under the street,

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

Ragz to richez or

so they say,

ya gotta-keep pushin' for the fortune and fame

It's all a gamble when it's just a game,

ya treat

it like a capital crime

Everybody's doing 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, 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

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

Oh 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

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, lead me 'round

Oh won't you please take me home

I wanna see, what a woman can be

I want to take you 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

I wanna go, I wanna know

Oh won't you please take me home.