He went to Paris

He went to Paris
Jimmy Buffett-1973

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He went to Paris lookin for answers

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To questions that bothered him so.
 
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He was impressive, young and aggressive

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savin the world on his own.

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But the warm summer breezes

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The French wines and cheeses

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put his ambition at bay.

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The summers and winters

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scattered like splinters

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and four or five years slipped away

Then he went to England, played the piano
and married an actress named Kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
and bore him a young son named Jim
and all of the answers and all of the questions
locked in his attic one day.
Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin
and twenty more years slipped away.

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
and left him with only one eye
His body was battered,his whole world was shattered
and all he could do is just cry.
While the tears were a-fallen he was recallin
ansewers he never found.
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
and left England without a sound.

Now he lives in the Islands, fishes the pilin's
and drinks his Green Label each day.
Writing his memoirs, losin his hearin
But he don't care what most people say.
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say
"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
but I had a good life all the way"

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And he went to Paris lookin for answers

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To questions that bothered him so.