i'll meet you at midnight

a summer evening on les champs elysees

a secret rendezvous they planned for days

i see faces in the crowded cafe

a sound of laughter as the music plays

jeanne-claude was a student at the university

louise-marie was just a world away

he recalled the night they met was warm with laughter

the words of music as she turned away

i'll meet you at midnight

under the moonlight

i'll meet you at midnight

but jeanne-claude

louise-marie will never be. each cigarette would light a thousand faces

each hour that passed seemed like a thousand years

midnight was turning into empty spaces

the sound of laughter had disappeared

i'll meet you at midnight

under the moonlight!

i'll meet you at midnight!

oh

but jeanne-claude

louise-marie will never be. a summer morning on les champs elysees

the empty tables of the street cafe

the sunlight melting through an open doorway

jeanne-claude has left to face another day

i'll meet you at midnight

under the moonlight

i'll meet you at midnight

i'll meet you at midnight

under the moonlight

i'll meet you at midnight

oh

but jeanne-claude

louise-marie will never be.