The train pulled into paris like a rocket to the moon  The station's like a circus every face is a cartoon  Everybody's stoned on pride and drunk on cheap champagne  Tonight this joie de vivre sure don't live up to its name  And now all that i can say    [Chorus:]  Is i'd give this world to you  Every rock and every stone every masterpiece in rome  And if you asked me to  I'd steel the mona lisa, tear it up in little pieces  And lay them at your feet  For all the world to see  But tonight i can't give you paris    Aristocrats are everywhere  And the air's as thick as thieves  She'd like nothing better than to steal the breathe from me  The tower's lights ain't shinin' as it hangs its head in shame  At the sight of american blood on the streets of st. germain  Washin' up into the seine    [repeat chorus]    And i'd give this world to you  I'd steal the crown and kingdom from the queen of england  And if you asked me to  I'd take this city in my hands, break it down in grains of sand  And lay them at your feet  For all the world to see  But tonight i can't give you paris