I don't want to die and go off to paradise
There are more fun places here that I can patronize
And you my friend aren't born again
You're dead already
[Refrain]
If I can't go to Heaven let me go to L.A
Or the far West Texas desert, or an Oregon summer day
If we build our Utopia, will you come and stay?
Shangri-la la la la la la la la la
St. Peter, don't you call me cause I can't go
I love my friends in hell, as above and so below
When the rapture comes, if you don't mind
I'll be waiting down here and sweating
[Refrain]
Accumulating cumulus in our backyard
My puzzle pieces fooling heaven bit by bit
Beneath this jigsaw sky I sit
And wonder, wonder, wonder, where do I fit?
[Refrain]
Shangri-la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la, Shangri-la