There's a blue shadow
moving through the moulin rouge
And a man with a knife point
picking his teeth
Off -duty cop sits with his back to the door
And some body just took
a piss in the sink
The cop's drinkin'
Pano thinks he's drinkin' absinthe
With the girl who loved him on
the hoose underneath
While somebody's slinkin'
smokin' under a light
And there's trouble in
Par is tonight
Simone pulls the collar up
tight to her throat
While the riverboats knock
under the old ponder
A rat makes a run for his hole in the wall
She stops by a street light and
lights a straight cigarette
She's torn on his knees,
starts to howl like a dog
She closes the purse and tries
to peer through the fog
Nothing seems wrong,
but something ain't right
There's trouble in
Paris tonight
Now the man cleaning his teeth,
well, he ain't satisfied
He's hungry for something
that he just can't define
The one by the sink is now
sweeping the floor
And the cop he ran short
of dreams a long time before
Well under a street lamp
there's trouble it seems
First there's a struggle and
then there's a scream
She didn't know what hit her
when he asked for a light
Now there's trouble in
Paris tonight
Now
Simone had been a town girl,
not far north of
Nant
Who did it for money once,
and then she just couldn't stop
Had a fight with her mother,
another runaway teen
Who had hotel love with a cop on the rue
Saint -Denis
And a boy once abandoned
by a cop and a whore
Has a knife in his hands,
he was a child of the war
It was either
Simone or cut out the lights
And there's trouble in
Paris tonight
There's a blue shadow movin'
through the moolah roof
And a man with a knife point pickin'
his teeth
Off -duty cop sits with
his back to the door
And somebody just took
a piss in the sink
Somebody standing out cold in the rain
Could be all warm inside
drinking champagne
Being thin as a shadow
smoking under a light
And there's trouble in
Paris tonight
Being thin as a shadow
smoking under a light
And there's trouble in
Paris tonight