Lyrics to
Paradise Alley

This version of Paradise Alley was released by Chicago in 1979.

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Come on in, have a look around
Hang your hat and find a chair
The pretty women smile at you
The party’s just beginning
There’s music everywhere
Paradise alley
Paradise alley
Paradise alley
Brothers got to stick together here
Fight with one, you fight with three
The family blood is thick as mud
Day to day the world keeps spinning
Paradise alley
Paradise alley
Paradise alley
It reminds you of who you used to be
And who you are, and who you’ll always be
It finds you in pursuit of dreams
And hopeless schemes
Life is richer than it seems
Nothing like being in a woman’s arms
The one you love, the one you want
There’s one small problem, who can she be
I feel like winning her in paradise alley
Paradise alley
Paradise alley
I’m gonna take you there
Paradise alley
Paradise alley
I’m gonna take you there
Take you to the paradise

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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Paradise Alley. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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About Lyrics and Paradise Alley by Chicago

The lyrics to Paradise Alley are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Chicago used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Paradise Alley have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Chicago and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Paradise Alley by Chicago. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Paradise Alley" means the words set to the music of Paradise Alley, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Paradise Alley and the lyrics to Paradise Alley are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to Paradise Alley, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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