Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Paris, Stay the Same (The Love Parade), artist - Maurice Chevalier. Album song Saga All Stars: Louise / Maurice Chevalier at the Movies 1929-1958, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.05.2012
Record label: Saga
Song language: English
Paris, Stay the Same (The Love Parade) |
Christmas makes me realize how greatly things do change |
Friends lose touch, people age, and family moves away |
But it is what had stayed the same that gives me the most tears |
For I’ve had the same Christmas cake for almost thirty years |
Granny made it back in sixty-eight and gave it to my mom |
Who gave it to her uncle who gave it to her son |
Who then gave it to me and that is where it stuck |
For I was only three months old and clearly out of luck |
Each Christmas of my childhood that fruit-brick would return |
My mom would place it on a plate and tell me I must learn |
That it is rude to get a gift and not put it to use |
And every year I’d take a bite and chip another tooth |
After fifteen years of misery I’d had all I could take (All I could take) |
That summer I went camping and dropped it in the lake (In the lake) |
I thought that I was rid of it, but on Christmas eve (Christmas eve) |
There it was «from Santa Claus» under the Christmas tree (Christmas tree) |
Each year I’d try to lose it but it would just return |
So I cried out «oh why have I been given such a burden?» |
A voice replied, «it's not a curse, but the greatest gift» |
«For when all else abandons you, you will still have it.» |
For all of man’s creations slowly waste away |
Relationships do crumble and buildings do decay |
The pyramids and Stonehenge slowly disappear |
But if they were made of Christmas cake they’d last a million years |