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
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 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 pushin’ for the …

Been hidin’ out
And layin’ low
It’s nothing new ta me
Well you can always find a place to go
If you can keep your sanity
They break down the doors
And they rape my rights but
They won’t touch me
They scream and yell
And fight all night
YOU CAN TELL ME
I lose my head
I close my eyes
They won’t touch me
‘Cause I got somethin’
I been buildin’ up inside
For so fuckin’ long
Chorus:
They’re out ta get me
They won’t catch me
I’m fuckin’ innocent
They won’t break me
Sometimes it’s easy to forget where you’re goin’
Sometimes it’s harder to leave
And evrytime you think you know …

Man’s got his woman to take his seed
He’s got the power – oh
She’s got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can
She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don’t come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Man makes your hair gray
He’s your life’s mistake
All you’re really lookin’ for is an even break
He lies right at you
You know you hate this game
He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain
She cries …

1,2,1,2,3,4
(Whistle)
Guess I needed sometime to get away
I needed some piece of mind
Some piece of mind that’ll stay
So I thumbed it down to Sixth and L.A.
Maybe a Greyhound could be my way
Police and Niggers, that’s right
Get out of my way
Don’t need to buy none of your
Gold chains today
I don’t need no bracelets
Clamped in front of my back
Just need my ticket; ’til then
Won’t you cut me some slack ?
You’re one in a million
Yeah, that’s what you are
You’re one in a million, babe
You’re a shooting star
Maybe someday we’ll see you
Before you make us …

It’s not how you’re thinking
Like you’ve been right
You’ve been living a trade-off
Believe your own version
Believe your enslavery and drain out your soul
What can I do when there’s so many liars
That crawl through your veins
Like millions of spiders
That seek out their victims
And ruin the wiser
Watch out
Gotcha
Oh my god
I can’t deny this
I’ve been taught just to kill and fight this
To bury it deeper where nobody can find it
Like nobody wanted to know
So give it away
Like they’re not gonna fuck you
How long can you bear him
To come back and haunt you
To burn past …

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight
Well I’m a west coast struttin’
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I’m a mean machine
Been drinkin’ gasoline
And honey you can make my motor hum
Well I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight
Wake up late honey put on your clothes
Take your credit card …

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight
Well I’m a west coast struttin’
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I’m a mean machine
Been drinkin’ gasoline
And honey you can make my motor hum
I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail
With a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight
Wake up late
Honey put on your clothes
Take your credit card
To the liquor store
That’s …

She hit town like a rose in bloom
Smellin’ sweet, said sweet perfume
The color faded the petals died
Down in the city no one cried
In the streets the garbage lies
Protected by a million flies
The roaches so big you know that they got bones
Moved in and made a tenement home, I said
Nice boys don’t play rock and roll
Nice boys don’t play rock and roll
I’m not a nice boy!
Sweet sixteen she was fresh and clean
Wanted so bad to be part of the scene
She met the man and she did the smack
Paid the price layin’ …

[spoken]
Is she really going out with him?
Hey!
I got a feeling inside of me
It’s kinda strange like a stormy sea
I don’t know why, don’t know why
These kind of things gotta be
[CHORUS:]
I got a new rose, I got it good
Yes, I knew that I always would
I can’t stop to mess around
I got a brand new rose in town
See the sun, see the sunny skies
Don’t get too close it’ll burn your eyes
Don’t you run away that way
Come back another day
[CHORUS]
I never thought this could happen to me
I’m a strange washing machine
I never served …

You wan’da step into my world
It’s a sociopsychotic state of bliss
You’ve been delayed in the real world
How many times have you hit and missed?
You cat-scan shows disfiguration
I wanna laugh myself to death
With a misfired synapse
With a bent configuration
I’ll hold the line while you gasp for breath
You wanna talk to me
So talk to me
You wanna talk to me (7 times)
You can’t talk to me
You don’t understand your sex
You ain’t been mindfucked yet
Let’s do it (3 times)
Oh my distorted smile
Guess what I’m doing now