A small green seedling grows through cracked stone pavement beneath a pale sunrise.

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Willy Wonka

(singing) If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

In song, the speaker tells listeners that paradise is not distant: they need only look around and see it. The lyric goes on to promise that any wish can be pursued and that changing the world is easy. It is an exuberant, playful invitation to wonder and possibility.

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