Guns N’ Roses - Paradise City | Lyrics, Video and Review

Guns N’ Roses - Paradise City

Paradise City by Guns N’ Roses, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Paradise City” is a song written by the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses. It is included on the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction and was released as a single in 1988.

Guns N’ Roses - Paradise City Lyrics

CHORUS x2
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
I’m a hard case that’s tough to beat
I’m your charity case
So by me somethin’ 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 pushin’ 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 capitol crime
Everybody’ doin’ their time

CHORUS x2

Strapped in the chair of the city’s gas chamber
Why I’m here, I can’t quite remember
The surgoen general say’s it’s hazardous to breathe
I’d have another cigarette
But I can’t see
Tell me that you’re gonna believe

CHORUS x2

So far away x4

Capitain 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 mllion times

CHORUS x4

I want to go
I want to know
Oh, won’t you please take me home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
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)

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
Beat me down
Oh, won’t you please take me home

I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won’t you please take me home

I want to see
Boy, I’m gonna be mean
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 want to go
I want to know
Oh, won’t you please take me hooooooome
Baby

Guns N’ Roses - Paradise City Review and Song Info

Paradise City is the only song on the album to use a synthesizer.
The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, the third single of the band’s to go Top 10.

Slash states that the song was written in the back of a rental van as they were on their way back from playing a gig in San Francisco with the band Jetboy.

“Paradise City” is thought by some to be about Los Angeles and its corruption at the time. Some believe the song to be written about Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin’s hometown of Lafayette, Indiana and the nearby Purdue University campus. During a 1998 interview, Rose told Hit Parader Magazine that “the verses are more about being in the jungle; the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere”.

Half of the music video was filmed at Giants Stadium in New Jersey while Guns N’ Roses were on tour with Aerosmith, midway through the video, they are seen boarding the Concorde jet so they could make an appearance in England, and return as quickly as possible back to the USA to continue touring with one of their major influences. The concert in England is the Monsters of Rock event at Donington Park. The reason for this is because of some deaths that took place while Guns N’ Roses were performing. As a result, they thought the footage taken at the concert would be good music video footage and a proper show of respect to those who died at the concert. Duff can also be seen wearing an Aerosmith t-shirt in the video.

It was also ranked #21 on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal Songs of All Time,[2] #3 in Total Guitar Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest solos of all time, and has won various similar awards over the years. It ranked #453 on Rolling Stones’ “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.

Released 1987
Recorded 1987
Genre Hard rock
Length 6:46
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan
Producer Mike Clink

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