John Wesley Harding
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Paradise

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: John Wesley Harding Canonical path: /john-wesley-harding/paradise Related lyric paths: 6
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Paradise

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Everything's changed and it's all for the best

And it's all gone according to plan

It's out in the open and now it's all over

Three cheers for every woman and man

Terry and Julie still stand on the bridge

But only in our memory

Don't look to them to draw a conclusion

Just love them and set them free

Julie hangs out by the banks of the river

Where the garbage all flows to the sea

Something's washed up, it's sacrifice to her

From the Twentieth Century

She sees the smokestacks and she sees the city

She sees the stadium's covered in snow

The streets have been cleaned except for the bedrooms

Of all the people with nowhere to go

Terry will clutch at threads where the rope was

As he's freefalling fast to the floor

But nobody claps because nobody's watching

It's his lawyers who get all the applause

Time's on the move, and I'm on the redeye

Where I'm hoping to find one more song

But it's like looking for rain in the river

Better not leave it too long

Terry and Julie filled out the coupon

And they won tickets tonight to the show

But it's the aisles in the new stores that beckon

As they shine a divine guiding glow

The bridge through the city, it has just crumbled

And that link is what kept them all sane

The two of them tumble into the river

Forget to come up for air again

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