[Intro]
    x4

[Verse]
             
Dear Mother, C

             
an you hear me

      
 whining?
             
It's been 3 wh

             
ole weeks sinc

             
e I have left 

      
your home
             
This sudden fe

             
ar has left me

        
 trembling
             
'Cause now it 

             
seems that I a

             
m out here on 

    
my own
             
And I'm feelin

         
g all alone...

[Chorus]
             
Pay attention 

             
to the cracked

             
 streets, and 

          
broken homes
             
Some call it s

             
lums, some cal

       
l it nice...
             
I want to take

             
 you through a

           
 wasteland I l

ike to call my
       
home.......Wel

come to Paradi

se

    x2

[Verse]
            
A gunshot ring

              
s out at the s

     
tation
            
Another urchin

              
 snaps, and le

             
ft dead on his

  
 own
             
It makes me wo

             
nder why I'm s

       
till here
             
For some stran

             
ge reason it's

             
 now feeling l

         
ike my home
             
And I'm never 

      
gonna go...

[Chorus]
             
Pay attention 

             
to the cracked

             
 streets, and 

          
broken homes
             
Some call it s

             
lums, some cal

       
l it nice...
             
I want to take

             
 you through a

           
 wasteland I l

ike to call my
       
home.......Wel

come to Paradi

se

    x2

[Verse]
             
Dear Mother, C

             
an you hear me

        
 laughing?
             
It's been six 

             
whole months s

             
ince I have le

         
ft your home
             
It makes me wo

             
nder why I'm s

       
till here
             
For some stran

             
ge reason it's

             
 now feeling l

        
ike my home
             
And I'm never 

      
gonna go...

[Chorus]
             
Pay attention 

             
to the cracked

             
 streets, and 

          
broken homes
             
Some call it s

             
lums, some cal

       
l it nice...
             
I want to take

             
 you through a

           
 wasteland I l

ike to call my
       
home.......Wel

come to Paradi

se

    x4