[Verse 1]
Praying mantis on screen
Canoes prowl reef in early morning sun
As it flashes on the rhythmic fall of weed cutter's cutlass blade
Everybody's got something to sell
Besides the obvious dollars and dope
Aloe rub, starfish, vegetable patties
Braid your hair miss and bush doctor cures
Sudden angry eruption between aloe peddler
And man with property to protect
Muscular security guard with truncheon of twisted wire
"Kiss my blood clot" she hisses and they're enemies for life
In the beachfront bar they're playing reggae versions of
Jim Reeves' Greatest Hits
The waitress sings along
Eyes focused dreamily on that sentimental world
[Chorus]
And there's dancing in paradise
Dancing in paradise
Dancing in paradise
Dancing in paradise
[Verse 2]
Blue green ship in turquoise bay
Swollen bauxite-red river rushing
Stream rising from feathered bamboo hills
Tracks once paved now falling away into deep lush valleys
And the farmed-out road contracts pass through so many hands
The print erodes with the weather-worn blacktop
And the jungle's always trying to reclaim the right of way
And the mangoes cacao turmeric goats soursop
Mushrooms cane plantains limes
Horses crayfish long-legged birds donkeys
Curved horns of cattle above dense grass
Ganja sensitive plant ackee
And some thorn whose prick brings lockjaw
And tires torn by sharp yellow rocks—
Young girl stares pensively from dark door in pale blue wall
Big About and friends at their crossroads bar
With its dirt corral for dancing
Drink soursop juice all day long
In quest of the perpetual stiff bamboo
Praying mantis on screen
Canoes prowl reef in early morning sun
As it flashes on the rhythmic fall of weed cutter's cutlass blade
Everybody's got something to sell
Besides the obvious dollars and dope
Aloe rub, starfish, vegetable patties
Braid your hair miss and bush doctor cures
Sudden angry eruption between aloe peddler
And man with property to protect
Muscular security guard with truncheon of twisted wire
"Kiss my blood clot" she hisses and they're enemies for life
In the beachfront bar they're playing reggae versions of
Jim Reeves' Greatest Hits
The waitress sings along
Eyes focused dreamily on that sentimental world
[Chorus]
And there's dancing in paradise
Dancing in paradise
Dancing in paradise
Dancing in paradise
[Verse 2]
Blue green ship in turquoise bay
Swollen bauxite-red river rushing
Stream rising from feathered bamboo hills
Tracks once paved now falling away into deep lush valleys
And the farmed-out road contracts pass through so many hands
The print erodes with the weather-worn blacktop
And the jungle's always trying to reclaim the right of way
And the mangoes cacao turmeric goats soursop
Mushrooms cane plantains limes
Horses crayfish long-legged birds donkeys
Curved horns of cattle above dense grass
Ganja sensitive plant ackee
And some thorn whose prick brings lockjaw
And tires torn by sharp yellow rocks—
Young girl stares pensively from dark door in pale blue wall
Big About and friends at their crossroads bar
With its dirt corral for dancing
Drink soursop juice all day long
In quest of the perpetual stiff bamboo
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