| I can still hear him playing, April in Paris
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| Dexter’s blowing his horn
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| It’s a used up tune for a faded moon
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| And played for the memory of something that’s gone
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| Plays like a lover, who’s holding a dream
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| When he knows that the dream won’t last
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| He’s going down slow, but he’s scared to let go
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| Deep down he knows, the dreaming has passed
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| One hit of cocaine, one hit of horse
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| He’ll take what’s on offer today
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| It’s a losers refrain to come back again
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| That thin line of snow to blow you away
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| He says «Buy me a vin rouge, buy me a beer
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| As he sits in The Blue Note Cafe
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| He’s ending his days in a purple haze
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| As pink and blue neon drag night into day
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| And the dancers have left the floor
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| And the last of the late night drinkers are out of the door
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| The old man’s hung up his horn
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| He’s playing no more
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| It’s not for the money, it’s not for the fame
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| It’s for something that sings through it all
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| When the music rings true, your soul comes through
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| And that’s what you do, 'til you hear the last chord
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| They say we go out, the way we came in
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| It’s how we played it that marks out the man
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| If we can leave a trace of beauty and grace
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| Then it wasn’t for nothing, just part of the plan
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| And the dancers have left the floor
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| And the last of the late night drinkers are out of the door
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| The old man’s hung up his horn
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| He’s playing no more |