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Outside Paradise

SONG - OUTSIDE PARADISE

Standing outside Paradise Wide eyes stare and disbelieving mouths just sigh Where everything’s bling and glints and gleams And everyone seems to live their dreams Looking in from outside Paradise   A resort on the island of Negros ‘tween the sugar fields and the sea Beside the workers’ corrugated tin town A guarded gate keeps out the free But money makes up Paradise’s strongest wall And those outside are who pay the price For plenty for the rich means they have none at all Looking in from outside Paradise     Standing outside Paradise...     Back home in a football ground’s car park Street kids watch the players driving in Jaguars, Mercedes, Lexus kind of cars That only twoccing earns the chance to spin And they peer in at the luxury and wonder How they can have a share of the prize Get ready for the storms and the thunder Looking in from outside Paradise   Standing outside Paradise…     And it seems sometimes we’re looking into heaven And God’s Kingdom seems to be so close at hand And poverty has almost been made history But perspective so depends on where you stand   Standing outside Paradise…     John Froud Copyright © 2005 Zephaniah Music    Click here to go on to Eric's page Click here to go back to the Philippines Index page

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