Paradise City

Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Take me home (I want 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 (I want you, please, take me home) Just an urchin living 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 Rags and riches, or so they say, you gotta Keep pushing 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 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? Yeah-yeah 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-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 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, 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 know I want you, please, take me home I wanna see how good it can be I want 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 (I want 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, ooh yeah, spin me 'round Oh, won't you please take me home? I wanna see how good it can be I want you, please, take me home I wanna see how good it can be Oh, oh, take me home Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty I want you, please, take me home (I want you, I want you, take me home) I wanna go (I wanna), I wanna know (I wanna) I want you, please, take me home, yeah Baby, yeah