Story Behind The Song
A friend was "vacationing" in Haiti when the earthquake struck! People come to Woodstock for the summer and get bitten by ticks! etc...
Song Description
No one place is perfect- each area has it's ups & downs. You can't escape mother nature, so just watch your back!
| Song Length |
3:57 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Blues - Country |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Affable, Sociable |
Subject |
Disasters, Storms |
| Similar Artists |
Lucinda Williams, Bonnie Raitt |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1990 - 1999 |
| |
Lyrics
Part Time Paradise
It's a Part Time Paradise, part time hell.
At times you're barely livin'; at times you're livin' well.
One day picture perfect; the next day not.
It's a Part Time Paradise, and it's all we got.
Nothing compares to a warm summer day
With a sweet little breeze to blow your cares away.
But just when you think you've got it made in the shade,
There's a flood, then the mud, then the ice and snow.
You're packing your bags, but where ever you go
It's a Part Time Paradise, part time hell.....
Down at the beach you don't need too much.
Just some fruit and some friends and a little grass hut.
But the folks who live there know it's just not so.
'Cause the earth's gonna shake, & the winds gonna blow
And you and your hut could wind up in a hole
On this Part Time Paradise, part time hell.....
I had a man, and he was quite a guy.
But most of the time we didn't see eye to eye.
The good was real good, but the bad was so bad,
It was one day happy, 3 days sad
And we fought like the devil for the heaven we had. It was Part Time Paradise, mostly hell...