moving through the moulin rouge
And a man with a knife point
Off -duty cop sits with his back to the door
Pano thinks he's drinkin' absinthe
With the girl who loved him on
While somebody's slinkin'
Simone pulls the collar up
While the riverboats knock
A rat makes a run for his hole in the wall
She stops by a street light and
lights a straight cigarette
starts to howl like a dog
She closes the purse and tries
but something ain't right
Now the man cleaning his teeth,
He's hungry for something
that he just can't define
The one by the sink is now
of dreams a long time before
First there's a struggle and
She didn't know what hit her
when he asked for a light
Simone had been a town girl,
Who did it for money once,
and then she just couldn't stop
Had a fight with her mother,
Who had hotel love with a cop on the rue
Has a knife in his hands,
he was a child of the war
Simone or cut out the lights
There's a blue shadow movin'
And a man with a knife point pickin'
Somebody standing out cold in the rain
