He Went to Paris

He Went to Paris - The Hit Crew

He went to Paris

Looking for answers

To questions that bothered him so

He was impressive

Young and aggressive

Saving world on his own

But the warm summer breezes

The French wines 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 fine life

She was a good wife

And bore him a young son named Jim

All of the answers and all of the questions

Locked in his attic one day

'Cause he liked the quiet clean country living

And twenty more years slipped away

Well the war took his baby

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 was just cry

While the tears were a falling

He was recalling

Answers 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 pilings

And drinks his Green Label each day

Writing his memoirs losing his hearing

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"

And he went to Paris looking for answers

To questions that bothered him so