LEARN LYRICS

Lying in the dark

In my room at the convent

Of Sainte Croix

I hear echoing

The sisters' choir

Deep inside me

And they sing

Ave Maria

And I dance to forget

The tears that quietly fall

I grew up deep in a city

Of dust and stars

At night in the kitchen

My mother told us the story

Of that woman

Gratia Plena

In her room under the stairs

She sometimes cried

I'm here

In the sadness of a life

We'll forget

In my room I slip away

And vanish softly

And France

Telling me my dreams

My childhood

In the café downstairs, she gets drunk

And collapses in silence

And the sea

That loves us, that finishes us

In her salt dress

I see her bow

Dragging herself

And standing back up

Lying in the dark

I remember that house

Under the trees

You came home at night

Drunk with caresses

And with women

We listened

Ave Maria

To the radio then you'd fall asleep

In the hollow of my arms

You know well though

That I loved you

Despite everything, despite that

The booze flowed

Along your dreams

Along our sheets

You smiled at me

Gratia Plena

Then you left

Like a bird that flies off

That goes away

I'm here

In the sadness of a life

We'll forget

In my room I slip away

And vanish softly

And France

Telling me my dreams

My childhood

In the café downstairs she gets drunk

And collapses in silence

And the sea

That loves us, that finishes us

In her salt dress I see her

Bowing, dragging herself

And standing back up

And the sea

I would've so wanted

You to hold me

In your arms and tell me

My love I'm here

Forever and ever with you