Paradise City

Guns N’ Roses * Track #6 On Appetite for Destruction

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Album Appetite for Destruction

ALBUM

Guns N’ Roses

1987

Paradise City by Guns N' Roses

Release Date

Wed Nov 30 1988

Performed by

Guns N’ Roses

Produced by

Mike Clink

Writed by

Steven Adler & Slash & Izzy Stradlin & Duff McKagan & Axl Rose & Guns N’ Roses

About

A Guns N' Roses masterpiece, usually the last song in every setlist, “Paradise City” was the sixth track for debut studio album Appetite for Destruction, and upon its single release in November 1988, reached #5 in the US and #6 in the UK. The lyrics follow a man frustrated with the big city life, co...

Paradise City Lyrics

[Chorus]
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?

[Verse 1]
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 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, 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 the time

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
So far away
So far away
So far away
So far away

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Outro]
I wanna go, I wanna know
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 (Oh yeah), spin me 'round
Oh, won't you please take me home?
I wanna see how good it can be
Oh, won't 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
Oh, won't you please take me home?

I wanna go, I wanna know
Oh, won't you please take me home?
Baby

Paradise City Q&A

Who wrote Paradise City's ?

Paradise City was written by Steven Adler & Slash & Izzy Stradlin & Duff McKagan & Axl Rose & Guns N’ Roses.

Who produced Paradise City's ?

Paradise City was produced by Mike Clink.

When did Guns N’ Roses release Paradise City?

Guns N’ Roses released Paradise City on Wed Nov 30 1988.

What did Guns N' Roses say about "Paradise City"?

Slash has mentioned numerous times that “Paradise City” is his favorite Guns N' Roses song. It was written by him while playing random tunes on his guitar with the rest of the band on a tour bus. The original lyric concept was very different, as Slash recalls:

‘Take me down to the Paradise City whe...

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