Yvette in English

He met her in a French café (Yvette)
She slipped in sideways like a cat (Yvette)
Sidelong glances
What a wary little stray (Yvette)
She sticks in his mind like that
Saying avez-vous un allumette?
With her lips wrapped around a cigarette

(Yvette)
Yvette in English saying
Please have this
Little bit of instant bliss

He's fumbling with her foreign tongue (Yvette)
Reaching for words and drawing blanks (Yvette)
A loud mouth is stricken deaf and dumb (Yvette)
In a bistro on the left bank
If I were a painter Picasso said
I'd paint this girl from toe to head

(Yvette)
Yvette in English saying
Please have this
Little bit of instant bliss

Burgundy nocturne tips and spills (Yvette)
They trot along nicely in the spreading stain (Yvette)
New chills new thrills
For the old uphill battle (Yvette)
How did he wind up here again?
Walking and talking
Touched and scared
Uninsulated wires left bare

(Yvette)
Yvette in English going
Please have this
Little bit of instant bliss

What blew her like a leaf his way? (Yvette)
Up in the air and down to Earth (Yvette)
First she flusters
Then she frays (Yvette)
So quick to question her own worth
Her cigarette burns her fingertips
As it falls like fireworks she curses it

(Yvette)
Then sweetly in English she says
Please have this
Little bit of instant bliss

He sees her turn and walk away (Yvette)
Skittering like a cat on stone (Yvette)
Her high heels clicking
What a wary little stray (Yvette)
She leaves him by the Seine alone
With the black water and the amber lights
And the bony bridge between left and right

(Yvette)
Yvette in English saying
Please have this
Little bit of instant bliss