What do you say now - yes or no
Your bags are packed but you’ve got nowhere to go
Future riding on a pair of dice - snake eyes
Now you know you can’t be wrong
Why, you can have it for a song
Come on, get your ticket to Paradise

Just made it to the terminal
All boarding, final call
Time to wave goodbyes
You’re through - and on the other side
Empty-handed, traveling light
Got your ticket to Paradise

Won’t be long now till we reach the sky
Come on, baby, we’ll be flying high

Here comes an angel in a snow-white blouse
Have another whiskey, it’s on the house
A lovely lady you seem to recognize - nice
Feeling better - well, so you should
See, it’s all a matter of your altitude
With a one-way ticket to Paradise

He was always standing there
By the house that he lived in
Thought his eyes were far away
On his face was a happy grin
Always twisting a piece of string
In his quietly moving hands
People and cars were passing by
With their troubles and ends

Well I left that town long ago
But I know he’s still standing there
Happy in his own and only universe
Wanting nothing, going nowhere
All the joys, misfortunes and pain
Flowing by without touching him
Maybe it’s the best thing in the world
To be a fool like him

And the boys going home from school
One of them was me
Never failed to stop and play the joke
Though they knew what the answer would be
They would ask him what time it was
And with his meaningless happy grin
He’d say twenty to one, and that was fun
For it was really two fifteen

Well I left that town long ago
But I know he’s still standing there
Happy in his own and only universe
Wanting nothing, going nowhere
All the joys, misfortune and pain
Flowing by without touching him
Maybe it’s the best thing in the world
To be a fool like him…