[00:07.78]We lived in Pā'ia
[00:10.84]Hippie central, I could hop to the beach
[00:16.06]Sometimes we would hitchhike
[00:18.60]Miles to school, school being a figure of speech
[00:24.07]Where we sang (kahuli aku, kahuli mai)
[00:32.87]We lived on a zendo
[00:35.94]In the forest, silence for days on end
[00:41.10]Caught up on my reading
[00:44.06]Huckleberry Finn was my only friend
[00:49.45]It could have been paradise
[00:53.41]But for the horrible bugs
[00:57.38]I could have gone to a real school
[01:01.46]But for the murderous thugs
[01:06.05]In the forest of paradise
[01:09.84]We gathered magic mushrooms
[01:14.72]But mostly I sat around
[01:18.35]In rooms as quiet as tombs
[01:22.37]It was heaven
[01:27.58]My mother then took up with
[01:30.53]A trumpeter, red beard and pork pie hat
[01:35.73]Found a lyric of mine
[01:38.80]He took it home and set music to that
[01:44.26]To impress my mother
[01:47.62]He stole my song. Better back off, mister
[01:52.42]Fast forward two decades
[01:55.08]Same thing happened but with Shakespeare's sister
[02:00.89]Why should it be paradise?
[02:04.77]That's just a place people go
[02:08.95]It was home for a little while
[02:12.77]But you can give me the snow
[02:17.85]Give me the snow
[02:22.20]My friend Shell was named for
[02:25.16]A shell on the beach. She spoke pidgin English
[02:30.29]Everyday I swam out
[02:33.36]Onto the reef, catching exotic fish
[02:38.72]It could have been paradise
[02:42.49]With one good reason to stay
[02:46.71]If it had been paradise
[02:50.70]Guess we'd still be there today
[02:55.44]Singing away