The Eben Brooks Band: Champs Élysées

BUY THE CD "MIRRORS": http://cdbaby.com/cd/eben2 or http://music.ebenbrooks.com/order.html Sign Up for the Newsletter: http://music.ebenbrooks.com/ (link on left) Order CDs and other merch: http://music.ebenbrooks.com/order.html Music and Activism Blog: http://ebenbrooks.livejournal.com/ CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES Copyright © 1994 by Eben Brooks and Allison Lonsdale I remember flowers and the candles in the night All along the streets of Paris, all the trees were blooming white And we walked down the Champs Élysées to the gypsy violins A sea of pretty faces and a memory of sin And coming home The Seine was full of stars that night, remembering the rain Champagne and pretty faces And the chestnut blossoms foam against the sky Trees along the open roads, a taste of apple wine In the morning light, a white rose gleaming silvery, like mine And the music heard through open doors, cafés and dens of smoke The bar beneath the music hall where fights broke out like clockwork Telling time My bloodied hands were bandaged by a girl who brought me home We loved the lonely night away Where the chestnut blossoms foam against the sky Yvettes and Mimis and Simones, and I their handsome prince Life was precious to me then as it never has been since And I walk these twisting pathways, tracing footsteps into stone Remembering a happy time when I was not alone As I am now When we walked down the Champs Élysées to the gypsy violins Champagne and pretty faces And the chestnut blossoms foam against the sky