It Could Have Been Paradise 创作者：
The Magnetic Fields
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Verse 1
Am Am 
 
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G G 
 
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D D 
 
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Am Am 
 
We lived in Paia
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Hippie central,
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C C 
 
D D 
 
I could hop to the beach
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Am Am 
 
Sometimes we would
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hitchhike
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Miles to school,
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school being a figure of speech
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G G 
 
D D 
 
Where we sang (kahuli aku, kahuli mai)

Verse 2
F F 
 
Am Am 
 
C C 
 
We lived on a   zendo
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In the forest,
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C C 
 
D D 
 
si lence for days on end
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Am Am 
 
Caught up on my reading
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G G 
 
C C 
 
D D 
 
Huckleberry Finn was my only friend
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Am Am 
 
It could have been paradis

Verse 3
F F 
 
e
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D D 
 
But for the horrible bugs
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F F 
 
I could have gone to a real school
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G G 
 
But for the murderous thugs
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F F 
 
In the forest of paradise
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D D 
 
We gathered magic mushrooms
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F F 
 
But mostly I sat around
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G G 
 
In rooms as quiet as tombs
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D D 
 
It was heaven
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Am Am 
 
My mother then took up

Verse 4
with
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A trumpeter,
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C C 
 
D D 
 
red beard and pork pie hat
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Am Am 
 
Found a lyric of mine
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G G 
 
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He took it home and set
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music to that
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Am Am 
 
To impress my mother
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G G 
 
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D D 
 
He stole my song. Better back off, mister
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Am Am 
 
Fast forward two decades
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G G 
 
C C 
 
Same thing happened  but with
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Shakespeare's sister
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Why should it be

Verse 5
Am Am 
 
F F 
 
paradise?
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D D 
 
That's just a place people go
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F F 
 
It was home for a   little while
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G G 
 
But you can give me the snow
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Give me the snow
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Am Am 
 
My friend Shell was named for

Verse 6
C C 
 
A shell on the beach. She spoke
D D 
 
pidgin English
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Am Am 
 
Everyday I swam out
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G G 
 
C C 
 
D D 
 
Onto the reef, catching exotic fish

Verse 7
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
F F 
 
It could have been paradise
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D D 
 
With one good reason to stay
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F F 
 
If it had been paradise
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G G 
 
Guess we'd still be there today
D D 
 
Singing away