The Coalminer's Beat – Down By The Seine lyrics

I just arrived at Gare St. Lazare
steppin' out the summer day
I looked back at the station hall
and I knew, I knew, I would stay

I crossed the street and went to the park
and lay down in the warm summer sun
after a week, spent in grey and dark
a new life for me had begun

The overcrowded sub's rushin' in
the sweat of all nations I smelled
this could be heaven if we would try
to live together as well

Let me be part of this spirit tonight
show me the places, where I can hide
from all this sorrow, the anger and fear
in this we are all, all together here
give me the laughter that sounds
through the streets
Paris, you city, that never sleeps
I wish, that it all began, down by the Seine

I'm passin' the buidings of ancient times,
and as I walk along the river quai
ther they are standing so tall and bright
the witnesses of former days

Back at the flat turn the radio on
102,3 sounds through the room
around the corner's an arabian shop
I felt hungry and so I went down

The girl in the café is laughing at me,
with a twinkle in her blue eyes
oh please wrap that curtain 'round me,
let me feel, that I'm still alive

Let me be part of this spirit tonight
show me the places, where I can hide
from all this sorrow, the anger and fear
in this we are all, all together here
give me the laughter that sounds
through the streets
Paris, you city, that never sleeps
I wish, that it all began, down by the Seine

Paris, moi je t'aime, avec les problèmes,
dont on parle, mais ça tout, c'est je m'en fou
rien de rien, je n'oublie, pas les semaines,
pas le jours