High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Paradise City" is a song written by the rock band Guns N` Roses. It is included on the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction and was released as a single in 1988. It is also the only song on the album to use a synthesizer. It is most known for its iconic lyrics "Take me down to the paradise city/Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty". The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, the third single of the band`s to go Top 10.