I. Return to a land called paraiso
A place where a dying river ends
No birds dare fly over paraiso
No space allows them to endure
The smoke that screens the air
The grass that's never there
Refrain 1:
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
II.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 colds
Refrain 2:
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
Chorus:
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
*** I decided to give you a copy of the said song so that you can read it yourself and so you would understand what does this song means.
* To put in simple words, this song tells about a story about the place where garbages were dump, where people live in that place live inside houses made of cardboards. And people live there were contented finding things for themselves like "kalakal" or junks.
In this place called Paraiso, seems like no trees, no grasses, puro basura around them. It's like mother earth na pinabayaan ng mga tao!
PARAISO talks about the land that's belong to the Third World countries, poor and wasted!
