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School Trip

On a School trip to Paris I was sixteen and embarrassed
On a School trip to Paris I was sixteen and
Embarrassed to discover it was true
Paris brings out the lover in you
And it certainly brought it out in me

I had a crush on my teacher on a girl who
Sold t-shirts and the nine girls in my class
And the hundreds of girls I passed on the street
And it's more romantic the less you eat

I was sixteen and embarrassed on a school trip
To Paris but the breakfasts were so cool
And we drank coffee like it was a rule
And pretended we never went to school, how cool

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And I was so very young then
But did not know I was
And we were so very young then
But did not know we were
And we are so very young now
But do not know we are
We do not know we are

On a School trip to Paris I was sixteen and
Embarrassed when people wielded proof
In conversations about the truth
Which opened my eyes and closed my youth

Then we were allowed one night to drink wine
At a cafe in Montmartre
Which speeded the beating of my heart
And made our eyes glisten in the dark, how cool

And when we got back on the bus I was lonely
But you came and sat beside me
And as we drove through France that night
I watched your face in the orange light, how cool