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Returning to Paris

from 100 Summers by James Lee Baker

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In 2015, I traveled, with my partner at the time, to Paris, landing in the late afternoon from a red-eyed flight. That evening, she and I walked to the Eiffel tower in the twilight while the tower lit up from base to tip and laid on the grass of the Champ de Mars.

In the wake of my departure from that relationship years later, I recalled the argument we had in that same park just a couple days after our evening in the grass. The relationship was full of those dichotomous moments. Despite all that, I know that night on the grass will always be cherished in my heart of hearts as a beautiful and unforgettable experience.

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I can see the runway lights
We’ve returned to Paris one last time
It's been ten years to hell and through
Since our wide-eyed, red-eyed rendezvous

We were so impulsive then
Unbridled, no regret, no discontent
Two vows made, one just in case
This didn’t work out we’d come back to this place

The young lovers here don’t know what they do
There's this hunger in their eyes that reminds me of you and I

We have come to the city of love to say goodbye
For so long I believed this day would never arrive
But here we are looking down at all these lights while ours is going out

On our backs on Champ de Mars
In the dying grass underneath the stars
The clock strikes twelve, the bell tolls
As the Eiffel tower glints and glows

We booked flights on separate planes
Threw our wedding rings into the Seine
cut our lock off the Pont des Arts
And we said our final au revoir

Walking back to my room
I tried not to picture you
crossing bridges all alone
Uncertain where it all went wrong

We have come to the city of love to say goodbye
For song long I believed this day would never arrive
But here we are looking up at all these lights
While ours is going out

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from 100 Summers, released September 4, 2020

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