Billy said when he was seventeen,There ain't nothin left here for me now,A small town boy with American dreamsHe was California bound,He said "I'm gonna make it,Damned if I don't try,You know I just won't take it,This life won't pass me by",Billy grew into a blue-eyed handsome man,The road it left him hard and lean,He lost his heart to a southern girl,She made him feel just like James Dean,And her name was Rita,She said her love was deep,Billy bought her promises,She could never keep(Chorus)Strangers in paradise,Long and lonely nights,Never had a dream come true,Strangers in paradise,Long and lonely nights,Searched their whole lives throughBilly rode those highway lines,Till they one day brought him back home,He took a job,And he took a wife,And he worked real hard for things of his own,Said "I'm gonna make it,Damned if I don't try,You know I just won't take it,This life won't pass me by",(Chorus)
