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Paradise Lyrics by Jay Kuo

Allegiance (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2016

[FRANKIE]
My fellow Americans, give me your tired, your poor... Your homes, your businesses, your money! Just mark yes to questions 27 and 28 And I, Mike Masaoka, will let you stay right here, in paradise!

Dessert, swamp, or dusty waste, they say location's key
Sure you shiver in this icebox, but cheer up, the rent is free!
And don't you love to freeze in line for soggy bowls of rice?
Just put up and shut up, cause you're in paradise
(spoken)
Is everybody happy?

[ENSEMBLE]
No!

[FRANKIE, spoken]
Tough!
[sung]
When it's pitch black dark at night, the army might assume
That you're trying to escape if you're running to the bathroom
Let them aim their spotlights down, but smile real nice
Just put up and shut up, cause you're in paradise!

[FRANKIE & ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Ain't it grand in paradise?

[ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
The water tastes like rust, the bedding's filled with crabby lice
Here's a little sound advice

[FRANKIE]
You better take my sound advice

[FRANKIE & ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Just put up and shut up, cause you're in paradise

[FRANKIE]
Now they aim to separate disloyals from the rest
All you have to do to pass is hold your nose and answer "yes"
But "no, no" seals your fate, and you will pay a heavy price
They'll grab you, and send you, away from paradise

[FRANKIE & ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Ain't it grand in paradise?
The snakes will let you be, if you feed them all the mice

[ENSEMBLE WOMAN]
But if you answer "no" twice

[FRANKIE]
Lord, if you check it twice

[FRANKIE & ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
You'll "no, no," you'll go, go, away from paradise
You don't want to take that chance, so answer "yes, yes"
Do the paradise dance!

[FRANKIE, spoken]
Woo! Come on, ladies!

[ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Paradise!

[FRANKIE]
Hey everybody, it's for our own good, right?

[ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Paradise!

[FRANKIE]
So we better just do what we should right?

[FRANKIE & ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Put up
And shut up

[ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Just put up and shut up

[FRANKIE & ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Just put up and shut up
Just put up and shut up
Just shut it up
You're - in - paradise!
Ain't this paradise?
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Jay Kuo

Jay Kuo

About “Paradise” by Jay Kuo

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"Paradise" is credited to Jay Kuo. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Paradise" appears on "Allegiance (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" in 2016.

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