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Welcome to Paradise

Artist: Green Day

Album: Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band (2017)

Music by Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, Mike Dirnt
lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong

Added on Monday, 20 October 2025

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Welcome to Paradise

Basket Case When I Come Around She Brain Stew Hitchin' a Ride Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)Minority Warning American Idiot Holiday Boulevard of Broken Dreams Wake Me Up When September Ends Know Your Enemy 21 Guns

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Lyrics and Chords

Intro: 0:00
D5 | C5 G5  - x4

Verse 1: 0:10
D5              C5
  Dear mother, can you
          D5   | D5
Hear me whining?
D5                  C5
  It's been three whole weeks
           F5                A5
Since that I have left your home.
0:21
D5             C5
  This sudden fear
              D5     | D5
Has left me trembling
D5              C5
 'Cause now it seems that
     F5             A5
I am out here on my own.
0:31
         F5          A5 | A5
And I'm feeling so alone.

Chorus 1: 0:36
 D5            F5
Pay attention to the cracked streets
G5              A#5
And the broken homes.
D5               F5
  Some call it slums,
              A5 | A5
Some call it nice.
0:46
   D5                 F5
I want to take you through a wasteland
   G5              A#5
I like to call my home.
D | A!            D5 ->
      Welcome to paradise.

Instrumental: 0:54
D5 | C5 G5 | D5 | C5 G5

Verse 2: 0:59
D5           C5
  A gunshot rings out
         D5   | D5
At the station.
D5        C5
  Another urchin snaps
     F5              A5
And left dead on his own.
1:10
D5             C5
  It makes me wonder
          D5      | D5
Why I'm still here.
D5                  C5
  For some strange reason,
          F5              A5
It's now feeling like my home,
1:20
         F5          A5 | A5
And I'm never gonna go.

Chorus 2: 1:25
 D5            F5
Pay attention to the cracked streets
G5              A#5
And the broken homes.
D5               F5
  Some call it slums,
              A5 | A5
Some call it nice.
1:35
   D5                 F5
I want to take you through a wasteland
   G5              A#5
I like to call my home.
D | A!            D5 ->
      Welcome to paradise.

Instrumental: 1:43
D5 | C5 G5 - x4
1:54 2:05
D5  - x16
2:15 2:26
D F | E D#  - x8

Verse 3: 2:47
D5              C5
  Dear mother, can you
         D5     | D5
Hear me laughing?
D5                C5
  It's been six whole months
           F5                A5
Since that I have left your home.
2:58
D5             C5
  It makes me wonder
          D5      | D5
Why I'm still here.
D5                  C5
  For some strange reason
          F5              A5
It's now feeling like my home.
3:08
         F5          A5 | A5
And I'm never gonna go.

Chorus 3: 3:13
 D5            F5
Pay attention to the cracked streets
G5              A#5
And the broken homes.
D5               F5
  Some call it slums,
              A5 | A5
Some call it nice.
3:23
   D5                 F5
I want to take you through a wasteland
   G5              A#5
I like to call my home.
D | A!            D5 ->
      Welcome to paradise.

Coda: 3:31
D5 | C5 G5| D5 | C5 G5

    D5     | C5 G5| D5 | C5 G5| D5!
To paradise.

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