Before Paris

[Nguyễn Hữu Toàn (hyper2002)]

Before Paris

(Read to the music of Caruso)

I wish I can do something fancy
Before you board that flight back to Paris;
I wish I can take this last chance
To take back words I didn't mean..

..But New York can't be like Paris
There's no Belleville, no Passy;
No Saint-German or Rue Dufour
Where they'd dance all night for l'amour.

When we were talking on the phone that night
And then you said: "It's goodbye!"
Oh how I was surprised..
"What can I say.." - I replied.

You asked if I would miss you
And I thought you would have already knew...
Things that I could not say,
Perhaps I should just keep them that way.

Playing me guitar for a little while
Thinking about our promised dinner-with-wine
Wondering if you'd cry at our goodbye
Or if memory's a dying flame in your mind?

Te voglio bene assai..
We've only met once in life
Ma tanto ma tanto bene assai...
I'm the one who stays back behind

..But New York can't be like Paris
There's no Belleville, no Passy;
No Saint-German or Rue Dufour
Where they'd dance all night for l'amour.