PERMISSIVE PARADISE (Jeremy Cox/John Sidey)
[Iveys recording (credited as The Pleasure Garden) from "Young London: Permissive Paradise" flexidisc - recorded 1969 - released U.K. 1969]
[from Syde Tryps One LP - recorded 1969 - released U.K. 1992]
[from Syde Tryps One CD - recorded 1969 - released U.K. 1995]
[from The Best of the Rubble Collection, Vol. 3 CD - recorded 1969 - released Europe 1999]

(All right)
Permissive paradise
And it's nice to know that our love is free
Permissive paradise
No suburban dream's gonna hang on me

What do you think you're doing?
Where do you think you're going?
Nowhere, people
Go blow your minds out and see.

The truths of yesterday no longer apply
The dreams you had then, they were bound to die
You're living a lie, and that's why you can't see me

Permissive paradise
We've got eyes to see that the joke's on you
Permissive paradise
In the promised land, we're the chosen few
(Oh, we're the chosen few, yeah!)

What do you think we're doing?
Just where do you think we're going?
Nowhere, people
The message is coming through
(Permit me, baby!)

What do you think you're doing?
And where do you think you're going?
Nowhere, people
Go blow your minds out and see
(See, see)

The truths of yesterday no longer apply
The dreams you had then, they were bound to die
You're living a lie, and that's why you can't see me

Permissive paradise
And it's nice to know that our love is free
Permissive paradise
No suburban dream's gonna hang on me

What do you think you're doing?
And where do you think you're going?
Nowhere, people
The message is coming through

(Yeah, pretty baby, pretty baby)
Permissive paradise
(Paradise)
And it's all so very nice
(All so very nice)
No suburban youth can live there
London swings
Sing.

lyrics transcribed by Paul Nyman and Bryan Waller with mentoring by Ron Griffiths