The train pulled into paris like a rocket to the moon
The station´s like a circus every face is a cartoon
Everybody´s stoned on pride and drunk on cheap champagne
Tonight this joie de vivre sure don´t live up to its name
And now all that I can say

[Chorus:]
Is I´d give this world to you
Every rock and every stone every masterpiece in rome
And if you asked me to
I´d steel the mona lisa, tear it up in little pieces
And lay them at your feet
For all the world to see
But tonight I can´t give you paris

Aristocrats are everywhere
And the air´s as thick as thieves
She´d like nothing better than to steal the breathe from me
The tower´s lights ain´t shinin´ as it hangs its head in shame
At the sight of american blood on the streets of st. germain
Washin´ up into the seine

[Repeat chorus]

And I´d give this world to you
I´d steal the crown and kingdom from the queen of england
And if you asked me to
I´d take this city in my hands, break it down in grains of sand
And lay them at your feet
For all the world to see
But tonight I can´t give you paris