Argenteuil in July Lyrics

Charlie's friends gathered on the eighth-floor terrace

They're drinking Pellegrino and eating paté

We talk about the yellow vests and Tuesday's game

The neighbor's nieces are in town for the week

And they only say hi when they're with him

I hear their English music as I carry the dishes to the kitchen

This afternoon they might have seen me naked, turning read and reading Wilde

At midnight I'll be dancing on the toolshed coaxing anger from my eyes

But down by the green door

Out and the stone's cold

Dart through the arcade, duck past the temple

Sigh at the river, try to be a drifter

Families are crowding the archways you'd like to disappear through

Charlie got a job for me at a storage facility

I never paid for the train

Then I got caught without a validated ticket stub

But odds were it wouldn't happen again

On site I just made lists of empty boxes and guys

Who owed us and sorted through mail

On weekends I drowned myself in park fountains and department store sales

But down by the green door

Out and the stone's cold

Dart through the arcade, duck past the temple

Sigh at the river, try to be a drifter

Families are crowding the archways you'd like to disappear through

Sigh at the river, try to be a drifter

Drift up the north coast, where only the French go

Without all the film festivals

Though I'd rather attend one of those

Wade through the ocean, onto the island

Here 'cause it's low tide, gone when the tide's high

Bike past the sand dunes, wince at the bright blue

Wait at the station and realize you're on your way to a place that's not home

Down by the green door

Out and the stone's cold

Dart through the arcade, duck past the temple

Sigh at the river, try to be a drifter

Families are crowding the archways you'd like to disappear through