[ti:Notes From Paris] [ar:Allan Taylor] [al:Color To the Moon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Notes From Paris - Allan Taylor [00:23.88]I can still hear him playing April in Paris [00:28.32] [00:29.68]Dexter's blowing his horn [00:32.24] [00:34.28]It's a used up tune for a faded moon [00:38.23] [00:39.59]And played for the memory of something that's gone [00:44.82] [00:50.21]Plays like a lover who's holding a dream [00:53.73] [00:54.89]When he knows that the dream won't last [00:57.68] [00:59.74]He's going down slow but he's scared to let go [01:03.72] [01:05.05]Deep down he knows the dreaming has passed [01:10.18] [01:35.99]One hit of coc*ine one hit of horse [01:39.73] [01:40.68]He'll take what's on offer today [01:42.99] [01:45.21]It's a losers refrain to come back again [01:49.49] [01:50.62]That thin line of snow to blow you away [01:55.64] [02:00.15]He says buy me a vin rouge buy me a beer [02:04.16] [02:05.14]As he sits in the blue note cafe [02:07.65] [02:09.91]He's ending his days in a purple haze [02:13.56] [02:14.88]As pink and blue neon drag night into day [02:20.17] [02:25.24]And the dancers have left the floor [02:27.82] [02:30.18]And the last of the late night drinkers are out of the door [02:32.82] [02:34.66]The old man's hung up his horn [02:36.41] [02:38.76]He's playing no more [02:40.58] [03:05.79]It's not for the money it's not for the fame [03:09.56] [03:10.39]It's for something that sings through it all [03:13.48] [03:15.07]When the music rings true your soul comes through [03:19.47] [03:20.48]And that's what you do 'til you hear the last chord [03:25.84] [03:30.37]They say we go out the way we came in [03:34.40]It's how we played it that marks out the man [03:37.85] [03:39.39]If we can leave a trace of beauty and grace [03:43.64] [03:44.74]Then it wasn't for nothing just part of the plan [03:50.04] [03:55.24]And the dancers have left the floor [03:57.86] [04:00.01]And the last of the late night drinkers are out of the door [04:02.87] [04:04.47]The old man's hung up his horn [04:06.27] [04:08.69]He's playing no more