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clive revil & elizabeth seal - irma la douce: valse milieu lyrics

[bob, spoken]
don’t worry + it’s quite suitable for the children
this is a story about passion, bloodshed, desire and death
everything, in fact, that makes life worth living
it happened not so long ago in paris
in the narrow back streets behind pigalle

we call this part of paris the “milieu,”
where the only crime is to get caught
and avoiding the flics is our favourite pastime
this is the milieu…

[bob]
a midnight silhouette
a dusty room to let
the blaring bal+musette
playing the valse milieu
the smell of stale gauloises
belote games in the bars
the sirens of police cars
playing the valse milieu

[bob, spoken]
this is the paris that blossoms at night
hiding in whispers away from the light
this is the paris that turns in its sleep
up on the hill where the sad gutters weep
[bob]
the shunting of a train
a lamp post in the rain
the street girl’s sad refrain
known as the valse milie

[bob, spoken]
now once upon a time, there was a poule
you don’t know what a poule is?
you’ll soon find out
every evening this poule would stroll up and down
near the bridge of caulaincourt

[irma]
you’ve got the time, cheri?
pretend my love is free
and why not come with me
dancing the valse milieu

[bob]
this is the way the poule would earn money for her boss
or as we say in the milieu, grisbi for her mec
this is the system: mec sends out poule
poule gets grisbi
grisbi goes to mec and buys him his hand+made shirts
his painted ties, his drinks, his bets, his crepe suzettes
it’s just simple economics
[bob]
the poules are there to earn
the grisbi’s there to burn
the partners twist and turn
dancing the valse milieu

this is the paris that hides from the day
waiting till night for the stranger to stray
this is a world you forget or forgive
sinner or saint we have all got to live

don’t turn away your face
’cause but for god’s good grace
you might be in their place
dancing the valse milieu

- clive revil elizabeth seal lyrics

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