They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation.......to the evils of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow's gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Savior of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation of Race Relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification of Revelations
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation.......to the peace of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation.......to the evils of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow's gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Savior of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation of Race Relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification of Revelations
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation.......to the peace of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti - 2007/10/28 - 19:55
Language: English
GANGSTA'S PARADISE - Il rifacimento di Coolio
GANGSTA'S PARADISE
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
coz I've been blastin and laughin so long, that
even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
but I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but i gotta, loc
As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
They got the situation, they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
so I gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watching got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don't know
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Power and the money, money and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
what's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
if they can't undersstand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
coz I've been blastin and laughin so long, that
even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
but I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but i gotta, loc
As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
They got the situation, they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
so I gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watching got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don't know
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Power and the money, money and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
what's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
if they can't undersstand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Language: Italian
Versione italiana di Riccardo Venturi
30 ottobre 2007
30 ottobre 2007
UN PARADISO PASSATEMPO
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno sprecato il più delle loro vite
a glorificare giorni passati da tempo
Hanno sprecato il più dei loro giorni
a ricordare un'antica gloria ignorante
Dimmi chi di loro avrà un futuro
quanti di noi siamo tu ed io
Dilapidazione
rapporti interrazziali
consolazione
segregazione
esercizio del potere
isolamento
sfruttamento
mutilazione
mutazioni
mancanza di creazione
sono la conferma….dei mali del mondo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Hanno aspettato nelle loro menti
il giorno in cui il dolore sarebbe sparito
E continuano a raccontare del giorno
in cui il Salvatore dell'amore verrà per restare
Dimmi chi di loro avrà un futuro
quanti di noi siamo tu ed io
Dichiarazione dei rapporti interrazziali
consolazione
integrazione
verifica delle Rivelazioni
acclamazione
salvezza del mondo
vibrazioni
simulazione
sono la conferma…per la pace nel mondo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Abbiamo passato troppa della nostra vita
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Cominciamo a vivere le nostre vite
a vivere per il paradiso a venire
a glorificare le nostre vite
a vivere per il paradiso a venire
vergogna a chiunque viva
in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno sprecato il più delle loro vite
a glorificare giorni passati da tempo
Hanno sprecato il più dei loro giorni
a ricordare un'antica gloria ignorante
Dimmi chi di loro avrà un futuro
quanti di noi siamo tu ed io
Dilapidazione
rapporti interrazziali
consolazione
segregazione
esercizio del potere
isolamento
sfruttamento
mutilazione
mutazioni
mancanza di creazione
sono la conferma….dei mali del mondo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Hanno aspettato nelle loro menti
il giorno in cui il dolore sarebbe sparito
E continuano a raccontare del giorno
in cui il Salvatore dell'amore verrà per restare
Dimmi chi di loro avrà un futuro
quanti di noi siamo tu ed io
Dichiarazione dei rapporti interrazziali
consolazione
integrazione
verifica delle Rivelazioni
acclamazione
salvezza del mondo
vibrazioni
simulazione
sono la conferma…per la pace nel mondo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Hanno passato il più delle loro vite
a vivere in un paradiso a venire
Abbiamo passato troppa della nostra vita
a vivere in un paradiso passatempo
Cominciamo a vivere le nostre vite
a vivere per il paradiso a venire
a glorificare le nostre vite
a vivere per il paradiso a venire
vergogna a chiunque viva
in un paradiso passatempo
Language: French
Traduction française d'après La Coccinelle - Traductions de chansons
PARADIS DE PASSE-TEMPS
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils gaspillent leur temps
Glorifiant les jours d'un lointain passé
Ils gaspillent leurs jours
Dans le souvenir d'une vieille gloire ignorante
Dis moi qui d'eux pourra devenir
Combien d'eux sont toi et moi
La dilapidation
Les relations interraciales
La consolation
La ségrégation
L'exercice (de la justice)
L'isolation
L'exploitation
La mutilation
Les mutations
Le manque de création
Sont la confirmation du désastre sur Terre
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Ils regardent dans leurs esprits
Pour le jour où la tristesse disparaîtra
Ils continuent de parler du jour
Où le sauveur d'amour viendra et restera
Dis moi qui d'eux pourra devenir
Combien d'eux sont toi et moi
La proclamation
Des relations interraciales
La consolation
L'intégration
La vérification
Des révélations
L'acclamation
Le salut du monde
Les vibrations
La stimulation
Sont la confirmation de la paix sur Terre
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Nous dépensons beaucoup plus que nos vies
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Il est temps de vivre nos vies
Vivre pour le paradis futur
Glorifiant nos vie
Vivre pour le paradis futur
Honte à quiconque vit,
Dans le paradis des passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils gaspillent leur temps
Glorifiant les jours d'un lointain passé
Ils gaspillent leurs jours
Dans le souvenir d'une vieille gloire ignorante
Dis moi qui d'eux pourra devenir
Combien d'eux sont toi et moi
La dilapidation
Les relations interraciales
La consolation
La ségrégation
L'exercice (de la justice)
L'isolation
L'exploitation
La mutilation
Les mutations
Le manque de création
Sont la confirmation du désastre sur Terre
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Ils regardent dans leurs esprits
Pour le jour où la tristesse disparaîtra
Ils continuent de parler du jour
Où le sauveur d'amour viendra et restera
Dis moi qui d'eux pourra devenir
Combien d'eux sont toi et moi
La proclamation
Des relations interraciales
La consolation
L'intégration
La vérification
Des révélations
L'acclamation
Le salut du monde
Les vibrations
La stimulation
Sont la confirmation de la paix sur Terre
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Ils passent la plupart de leur vie
Vivant dans un paradis futur
Nous dépensons beaucoup plus que nos vies
Vivant dans un paradis de passe-temps
Il est temps de vivre nos vies
Vivre pour le paradis futur
Glorifiant nos vie
Vivre pour le paradis futur
Honte à quiconque vit,
Dans le paradis des passe-temps
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi - 2007/10/30 - 14:42
Pure George Michael - fervente ammiratore di Stevie Wonder (del quale Michael incise e/o cantò dal vivo parecchi brani lungo tutto l'arco della sua carriera, anche duettando con Wonder in alcune occasioni) - la interpretò dal vivo. Qui (prove incluse) nel "Faith" Tour, 1988.
Alberta Beccaro - Venezia - 2018/5/24 - 02:14
Language: English
La parodia di Gangsta Paradise fatta da Weird Al Yankovich
Amish Paradise
Amish Paradise
AMISH PARADISE
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know, I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning, I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine
Then tonight, we're gonna party like it's 1699
We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise
I churned butter once or twice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We sell quilts at discount price
Livin' in an Amish paradise
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week
I just smiled at him and I turned the other cheek
I really don't care, in fact I wish him well
'Cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in Hell
But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it
An Amish with a 'tude?
You know that's unheard of
I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat
And my homies agree I really look good in black, fool
If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears
We haven't even paid the phone bill in 300 years
But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare
We're just technologically impaired
There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
It's as primitive as can be
We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We're just plain and simple guys
Livin' in an Amish paradise
There's no time for sin and vice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We don't fight, we all play nice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter
Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise another
Think you're really righteous?
Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art
I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
On my knees day and night, scorin' points for the afterlife
So don't be vain and don't be whiny
Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your heinie
We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We're all crazy Mennonites
Livin' in an Amish paradise
There's no cops or traffic lights
Livin' in an Amish paradise
But you'd probably think it bites
Livin' in an Amish paradise
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know, I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning, I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine
Then tonight, we're gonna party like it's 1699
We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise
I churned butter once or twice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We sell quilts at discount price
Livin' in an Amish paradise
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week
I just smiled at him and I turned the other cheek
I really don't care, in fact I wish him well
'Cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in Hell
But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it
An Amish with a 'tude?
You know that's unheard of
I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat
And my homies agree I really look good in black, fool
If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears
We haven't even paid the phone bill in 300 years
But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare
We're just technologically impaired
There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
It's as primitive as can be
We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We're just plain and simple guys
Livin' in an Amish paradise
There's no time for sin and vice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We don't fight, we all play nice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter
Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise another
Think you're really righteous?
Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art
I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
On my knees day and night, scorin' points for the afterlife
So don't be vain and don't be whiny
Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your heinie
We been spending most our lives
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We're all crazy Mennonites
Livin' in an Amish paradise
There's no cops or traffic lights
Livin' in an Amish paradise
But you'd probably think it bites
Livin' in an Amish paradise
Contributed by Lucone - 2024/6/14 - 12:15
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Lyrics and music by Stewie Wonder
Testo e musica di Stevie Wonder
Album: "Songs in the Key of Life"
Una bellissima canzone di Stevie Wonder che invita a guardare a un futuro migliore da costruire, e da non vivere la vita in un paradiso fatto di cose futili.
È stata rimaneggiata da Coolio nel 1995 trasformandola in "Gangsta's paradise". Recentemente l'ha cantata anche Patti Smith (nell'album Twelve del 2007)