He Went to Paris

He went to Paris lookin' for answers

To questions that bothered him so

He was impressive young and agressive

Savin' the world on his own.

Warm summer breezes French wine and cheeses

Put his ambition at bay

The summers and winters scattered like splinters

And four or five years slipped away.

He went to England played the piano

And married an actress named Kim

They had a good life she was a good wife

And bore him a young son named Jim.

All of the answers and all of the questions

He locked in his attic one day

'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'

And twenty more years slipped away.

War took his baby bombs killed his lady

And left him with only one eye

His body was battered his whole world was shattered

All he could do was just cry.

While the tears were fallin' he was recallin'

Answers that he never found

So he hopped in a freighter skidded the ocean

And left England without a sound.

Now he lives in the island fishes the pilin'

And drinks his green label each day

Writin' his memoirs losin' his hearin'

But he don't care what most people say.

After eighty-six years of perpetual motion

If he likes you he'll smile and say

Well, some of it's magic probably tragic

But I had a good life all the way.

He went to Paris lookin' for answers

To questions that bothered him so...