Trouble In Paris

There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge

And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth

An off duty cop sits with his back to the door

And somebody just took a piss in the sink

The cop's drinkin Pernod thinks he's drinkin absinthe

With the girl who had loved him on the Rue St. Denis

While somebody's slinkin smokin under a light

And there's trouble in Paris tonight

Now Simone pulls the collar up tight to her throat

While the riverboats knock under the old Pont Neuf

A rat makes a run for his hole in the wall

She stops by a street light and lights a straight cigarette

A Gitane on his knees starts to howl like a dog

She closes her purse and tries to peer through the fog

Nothin seems wrong but somethin ain't right

And there's trouble in Paris tonight

Now the man cleanin his teeth well he ain't satisfied

He's hungry for somethin that he just can't define

The one by the sink is now sweeping the floor

And the cop he ran short of dreams a long time beforeo

While under a street lamp there's trouble it seems

First there's a struggle and then there's a scream

She didn't know what hit her when he asked for a light

And there's trouble in Paris tonight

Simone had been a town girl not far north of Nantes

Who did it for money once then she just couldn't stop

Had a fight with her mother another runaway teen

Who had hotel love with a cop on the Rue St. Denis

And a boy once abandoned by a cop and a whore

Has a knife in his hands he was a child of the war

It was either Simone or cut out the lights

And there's trouble in Paris tonight

There's a blue shadow moving through the Moulin Rouge

And a man with a knife point pickin his teeth

An off duty cop sits with his back to the door

And somebody just took a piss in the sink

While somebody's standin out cold in the rain

Could be all warm inside drinking champagne

Being thin as a shadow smokin under a light

And there's trouble in Paris tonight

Bein thin as a shadow smokin under a light

And there's trouble in Paris tonight