Afternoons on the Rue de Flores In the flat that I shared with Gertrude We served tea and got drunk on conversations With the lost generation she found Hemingway, Picasso and Matisse Janet Flanders and Sylvia Beach We were searching for unknown destinations We were desperate to reach We said (au revoir[?]) We carved our dreams To invent the world, it seems As life unraveled at the seams But oh... When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman She loved so well All the smoke and opinions would fly! Life was art, art was life, or else die So we cared for each word and every color Like a bug on the web (to explain[?]) As the days blended into the nights How we savoured our city of lights And we knew it wouldn't last forever But my god what a ride When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman She loved so well She loved so well My Gertrude She was my shepherdess My Pyrenees With eagle eyes, a mountain range was she She sore loved me We sore loved When Paris was a woman... The escapades The rigolos The geniuses The gigolos The legacy we left Who knows? But oh... When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman She loved so well She loved so well We loved When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman When Paris was a woman She loved so well