Paradise Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

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 free falling 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 red-eye 

Where I'm hoping to find one more song 

But it's like looking for rain in the river 

We'd better not leave it too long 

Terry and Julie, they filled out the coupon 

They won tickets tonight for 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, well it has just crumbled 

And that link is what kept us all sane 

The two of them tumble into the river 

Forget to come up for air again 

Forget to come up for air again