Once we stood at the edge of the world And the shipwrecked sun went down A frozen city held it's breath Beneath a silent neon crown And true, we didn't stay around to see the dying embers But who knows which of us will be the last to remember That you don't live in Paris You don't live in Paris anymore? I sit alone at the Place Pigalle Waiting for a friend of mine She might be bringing me the fleur du mal Or just a foxy valentine And oh, you must have heard a lot of bad things about me And all your friends will tell that you're better off without me Now you don't live in Paris Now you don't live in Paris anymore Night falls along the boulevards Irma la Douce slips out of doors A strange face in the back of a car For a moment looks like yours And all at once I start feeling lost en empty What's the use in all the books and all the lines you sent me If you don't live in Paris If you don't live in Paris anymore Streetlight flicker at the runway of dawn I stretch out of a dream Daylight paints it's strangest forms Out on streets I've never seen And in all the faces that the modern world can show you There might be one that's near enough for me to know you When you don't live in Paris When you don't live in Paris anymore