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Paradise Pastures

 Paradise Pastures

(Tune of "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses)


Take me out to the paradise pastures

Where the grass is green and the views cause raptures

Take me there (oh please take me there)

Take me out where life’s rhythm matters

to a lovely scene that can bring some answers

Let’s go there (oh please let’s go there)

 

Urbanite gettin’ away from the street

Free to go to a calm retreat

I’m not your charity case, I’m not the elite.

I’m gonna take my time

Goin’ to a place sublime

 

Rags to riches isn’t how I play

Hard, honest work feels good at the end of the day.

Life may be a game but fair play is the better way

Everybody’s earning their dime

You gotta keep walkin the line

 

I’ll be goin’ to the paradise pastures

With the fresh mown hay and purple asters

Yes, that’s where I’m goin’

Pack my bags for the paradise pastures

Where I can lay in soft, tall grasses

I won’t bring my phone.

 

Dwell in a box in the city in my chambers

Wide fields are what I want to remember

With open blue skies and air refreshing to breathe

Away from smokey cigarettes in the breeze

I tell you, that’s where I wanna be.

 

I’m heading out to the paradise pastures

Where the corn is gathered, you can hear the tractors

I’ll go there on my own.

I’ll sally forth to the paradise pastures

Where life is scattered among the flowers

Oh, I’ll go to that abode.

 

The planets being torn apart

Big city pollution is at the heart

We should have been recycling from the start

I keep thinking in my mind, “are you blind?”

I think we’re running out of time

 

Take me out to the paradise pastures

Where cows can be seen and the herd is gathered

I don’t mind the odor.

Take me there to the paradise pastures

Where you feel the rain and see new life planted

Watch the fields get greener

 

You’ll find me in the paradise pastures

Where the eagles fly with prey they capture

That’s where I want to roam

I’ll be there in the paradise pastures

At the edge of the pines that grow haphazard

There, where the field was mown

 

I’ll spend days in sun rays

I’ll even go when it’s chill

I wanna see the horses graze.

Out beside the sandy hill

 

Take me out to the paradise pastures

Where deer run free and you can see red foxes

Out past the barn

I’m going out to the paradise pastures

Where flocks of birds fly down and chatter

Some sit on fences around the farm

 

Walk through the meadow to the edge of the river

Down the gentle grassy slopes

I watch a beaver, a consummate swimmer

I like the peace the view evokes


I’ll be there in the paradise pastures

Where I’m still enamored after all my travels

Yes, this lovely place that I’ve known


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