"Paradise City" con su letra pelada, su mensaje directo y su deje a lo "Home Sweet Home", es sin lugar a dudas la mejor canción de Guns & Roses, aquella banda rubia que hizo "bluf" en todas sus visitas a España y les odiamos por ello; pero que a su vez atesoran uno de los discos más guapos para tener 20 años de la historia del rock, como es aquel Appetite for Destruction, que con sus trallazos y sus melenudas calaveras de la portada, fue uno de los discos que nos descubrió a mi hermano, a mi y a todos mis amigos, greñudas perlas como el ya mencionado “Paradise City”, o la salvaje “Welcome to the Jungle”, que provocaron nuestra entusiasmada exploración y seguimiento de su escasa y desconocida discografía, dando sus buenos frutos con aquellas acústicas “One in a Million” y “Patience” o el pistoletazo de salida que es “Reckless Life”. Luego ya vinieron la ñoña sobreexposición de “Sweet Child of Mine”, cierta intriga con Use your Illusion I y Use your Illusion II, la lacrimógena “November Rain” y poco más. Guns & Roses se fueron apagando poco a poco aplastados por el éxito y los continuos cambios de formación en un desesperado intento de salvar a la gallina de los huevos de oro.
Hoy sortearemos con gentileza todos los desaciertos para quedarnos con el buen sabor de boca que deja una banda de rock con todo el camino por delante y la energía suficiente para apretar el acelerador a fondo en la autopista, haciendo chillar el motor de su coche en dirección a la anhelada “Paradise City”.
Paradise City
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 x2Strapped 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
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 x2Strapped 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)
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
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
¡Cardado fin de semana a todos!
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