Just a' urchin   livin' under the street   I'm a hard case   that's tough to beat   I'm your charity case   So buy me somethin' to eat   I'll pay you at another time   Take it to the end of the line   Ragz to richez or so they say   Ya gotta-keep pushin'   for the fortune and fame   It's all a gamble   When it's just a game   Ya treat it like a capital crime   Everybody's doin' their time   Chorus:   Take me down   To the paradise city   Where the grass is green   And the girls are pretty   Take me home   Strapped in the chair   of the city's gas chamber   Why I'm here I can't quite remember   The surgeon general says   it's hazardous to breathe   I'd have another cigarette   but I can't see   Tell me who you're gonna believe   Chorus   So far away   So far away   So far away   So far away   Captain America's been torn apart   Now he's a court jester   with a broken heart   He said-   Turn me around and   take me back to the start   I must be losin' my mind-   "Are you blind?"   I've seen it all a million times   Chorus