Smokey Mountain Paraiso song lyrics

Return to a land called paraiso

A place where a dying river ends.

No birds there fly over paraiso

No space allows them to endure.

The smoke that screens the air

The grass that's never there.

And if i could see a single bird, what a joy.

I try to write some words and create

A simple song to be heard

By the rest of the world.

I live in this land called paraiso

In a house made of cardboard floors and walls.

I learned to be free in paraiso

Free to claim anything i see.

Matching rags for my clothes

Plastic bags for the cold.

And if empty cans were all i have, what a joy.

I never fight to take someone

Else's coins and live with fear

Like the rest of the boys.

Paraiso, help me make a stand.

Paraiso, take me by the hand

Paraiso, make the world understand

That if i could see a single bird, what a joy.

This tired and hungry land could expect

Some truth and hope and respect

From the rest of the world.