Whores Of Paris
Bernie Taupin

Gigi liked the book on Jackie O

Though I knew she had some trouble with the words

It never showed

She'd never drop her guard

Under pressure she preferred like all her girls

Who worked the bars

To be a lady in the finest sense

Not your traditional elegance

Of Paris Match and chic expense

But the tough and tardy waiting game

With fat commuters full of cheap champagne

Belching tourists feel no pain

When Gigi takes their wallets

Spends their bodies, keeps the change

For sentiment don't touch the Whores of Paris

Just the years and lines of age

That buries them in unmarked graves

Old and spent and never saved

By epitaphs and red bouquets

When winter wakes the devil takes

The Whores of Paris home to Hades

They use their caution like a whip

We sensed it as they filed their nails, crimson

As the paint upon their lips

Tough enough to rust in jail

Farmers' daughters plucked like corn

From the Camargue to Marseilles

Ideals of the ideal life

Expectant mothers discarded wives

With re-sewn wrists and tear stained eyes

They soon find the shoe fits easy

The francs flow in and the tricks say, Please me

Another lovely thigh says, Squeeze me

Mon cherie, my bed's so busy

Take a Pernod, life's so sleazy

It's not coffee in the air

Just the smell of foreign fingers greasing palms

On the Seine it's Sunday morning

To her, it's always evening

Shifting gear to put some German in her arms

Washed in sterile porcelain

She fakes it for the good of his morale

He's tired and worn but she moves on

To rope another stud from her corral

Christmas in the poor house

Unbeknownst to others, Madelaina takes her life

She tipped the scales at forty five

Never saw a decent day

Never made it to the upper echelons of night

In decadence I once reclined

Looked them over once or twice but never really

Crossed my mind, preferring to remain their friend

I never shared the pleasures of the mystery that lay beneath

Anyone of them

They just seemed starved of conversation

Respected us for being patient

Demanded news of other nations far away

And I'm still glad I gained their faith

For every girl there bore more taste

Than the flotsam strung on the Bel Air wastes

They poised themselves with perfect grace

Their hearts were chipped but not misplaced

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