Song Details
Welcome to Paradise
  • Track #5 from Dookie
  • Released 1994
    Green Day has played this song live 702 times
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    Lyrics
    Dear mother, can you hear me whinin'?
    It's been three whole weeks since I have left your home
    This sudden fear has left me tremblin'
    Cause now it seems I am out here on my own
    And I'm feeling so alone

    Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes
    Some call it slum some call it nice
    I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home
    Welcome to Paradise

    A gunshot rings out at the station
    Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
    It makes me wonder why I'm still here
    For some strange reason it's still now feeling like my home
    I'm never gonna go

    Dear mother, can you hear me laughin'?
    It's been six whole months since I have left your home
    It makes me wonder why I'm still here
    For some strange reason it's still now feeling like my home
    I'm never gonna go
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