C'est la vie.
          
Have your leaves all turned to brown?
                    
Will you scatter them around you?

C'est la vie.


       
Do you love?
         
And then how am I to know
                         
If you don't let your love show for me?

C'est la vie.


Chorus:
               
Oh, oh, c'est la vie.
               
Oh, oh, c'est la vie.
                      
Who knows, who cares for me?
         
C'est la vie.


       
In the night,
       
Do you light a lover's fire?
                            
Do the ashes of desire for you remain?


         
Like the sea,
           
There's a love too deep to show.
                          
Took a storm before my love flowed for you.

C'est la vie.


+ Chorus

+ Interlude


       
Like a song,
       
Out of tune and out of time,
                 
All I needed was a rhyme for you;

C'est la vie.


       
Do you give?
       
Do you live from day to day?
                     
Is there no song I can play for you?

C'est la vie.


+ Chorus