Empty Paris

Empty Paris Lyrics

Song Empty Paris
Artist Momus
Album Vivid
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[00:03.755] I am teacher who works on a farm
[00:08.946] Immunity barcode tattooed on my arm
[00:13.731] But the children must eat, education can wait
[00:19.622] I coax up the carrots til quarter to eight
[00:24.921] And if I don't farm then nobody eats
[00:29.916] And if nobody eats we're in pain
[00:35.156] What if someone declared a black death but nobody came?
[00:43.323]
[00:46.151] And the Ibis hotel is a hospital now
[00:51.103] The conference centre's a morgue
[00:56.883] The city's so quiet, I can't get used to it
[01:01.730] The police have turned into the Borg
[01:07.011] Saw a lonely flaneur with a drone overhead
[01:12.369] With a thin metal voice that shrieked out as it said:
[01:17.880] "You have the choice to be thrown in a cell or go home"
[01:25.914]
[01:29.559] Empty Paris, empty Berlin
[01:33.464] Empty London, New York, empty Dublin
[01:39.208] Empty Lagos, Johannesburg, Moscow, LA
[01:44.873] Empty Adelaide, empty Belgrade
[01:49.679] And I dig on the farm, this tattoo on my arm
[01:55.624] Proving I've come through the plague
[02:01.021] And when this squeeze is over and we all recover
[02:06.382] Perhaps we will drink lemonade
[02:10.071]
[02:11.925] I had a partner but she's disappeared
[02:16.871] And I'm not used to living alone
[02:21.947] Well the hard work all starts when the loneliness hurts
[02:27.389] And sometimes I wish we'd both gone
[02:32.537] And I'm scared of the government, scared of the Russians
[02:37.890] And scared of these criminal pricks
[02:43.040] When I head out to work at a quarter to five
[02:48.866] They all watch for signs that I'm sick
[02:53.100]
[02:54.386] And where once there was motion now there's just stubbornness
[02:59.657] Where once was health we're just ill
[03:04.677] Feral rats have invaded the Quai de la Monnaie
[03:10.236] Foxes took over Cafe Kitsune
[03:15.027] In the Palais Royale it's now head-high with weeds
[03:20.716] Food rots in the Carrousel du Louvre
[03:25.786] In Ikea I see only chaos and fear
[03:31.622] A ghost town where nobody moves
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[03:37.083] Empty Paris, empty Berlin
[03:41.624] Empty London, New York, empty Dublin
[03:46.978] Empty Lagos, Johannesburg, Moscow, LA
[03:52.997] Empty Adelaide, empty Belgrade
[03:57.829] And I dig on the farm, this tattoo on my arm
[04:03.624] Proving I've come through the plague
[04:08.688] And when this squeeze is over and we all recover
[04:14.603] Perhaps I will drink lemonade
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