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
Take me home (oh won’t you please take me home)
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 something to eat
I’ll pay you at another time
Take it to the end of the line
Rags to riches or so they say
Ya gotta keep pushin’ for the fortune and fame
You know it’s all a gamble when it’s just a game
Ya treat it like a capital crime
Everybody’s doin’ the 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, yeah yeah
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
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 losing 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
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
La storia del pezzo
Nato in un furgone a noleggio
«Paradise City» esce come singolo nel novembre 1988, tratto dall'album d'esordio dei Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction. È l'unico brano del disco con un synth, e in classifica arriva quinto nella Billboard Hot 100, sesto nel Regno Unito e primo in Irlanda.
La canzone nasce nel retro di un furgone a noleggio, di ritorno da un concerto a San Francisco. Slash racconta che la band beveva e suonava chitarre acustiche quando gli è venuto in mente l'intro; Duff McKagan e Izzy Stradlin si sono aggiunti, e Axl Rose ha cantato «portami nella Paradise City». Slash voleva una seconda riga più spinta, ma è stato messo in minoranza dal resto del gruppo.
Nei live il pezzo chiude quasi sempre il concerto, come bis, tradizione che va avanti almeno dal 1988. Fa eccezione il concerto tributo a Freddie Mercury del 1992, dove i Guns N' Roses lo suonano per primo, ad aprire il loro breve set.
Scheda scritta con l'aiuto dell'intelligenza artificiale, usando solo fatti presi dalle fonti indicate.
Il testo di Paradise City
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