Madeleine hears the bohemians say
She's selfish and crazy
Which isn't so far from the truth,
She's the essence of youth,

The flower you place on eternity's grave.
The romantic who isn't afraid
Of the beat of her heart,
She raises a glass to your art
And when she gets drunk she says...

Oh, give me the autumn, give me the trees,
Gather up everything I ever wanted
And give it me, please
Give me the ocean, give me the sea
Gather up everything I ever wanted
And share it with me

How many hearts are knocked down in the street ?
How many poets are driven
To drink and to verse,
By her singular eyes piercing out through a flight-path of
Rarified air
Where all the shiny black birds of the west
Make a rest in her hair ?
She raises a glass to your love
And when she gets drunk she says...

And you ask where she comes from
and she tells you: "the earth,"
Like the place that you come from
Is a whole different world
She says "life is a banquet,
So why hang around
Catching crumbs from a table ?
Come share it with me."