Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris movie - THE DESPERATE ONES lyrics

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They hold each other's hand<br>

They walk without a sound<br>

Down forgotten streets<br>

Their shadows kiss the ground<br>

Their footsteps sing a song<br>

That's ended before it's begun<br>

They walk without a sound<br>

The desperate ones<br>

Just like the tiptoe moth<br>

They dance before the flame<br>

They've burned their hearts so much<br>

That death is just a game<br>

And if love calls again<br>

So foolishly they run<br>

They run without a sound<br>

The desperate ones<br>

I know the road they're on<br>

I've walked their crooked mile<br>

A hundred times or more<br>

I drank their cup of bile<br>

They watch their dreams go down<br>

Behind the setting sun<br>

They walk without a sound<br>

The desperate ones<br>

And underneath the bridge<br>

The waters sweet and deep<br>

There is the journey's end<br>

The land of endless sleep<br>

They cry to us for help<br>

We think it's all in fun<br>

They cry without a sound<br>

The desperate ones<br>

Let he who threw the stone at them<br>

Stand up and take a bow<br>

He knows the verb to love<br>

But he'll never know how<br>

On the bridge of nevermore<br>

They disappear one by one<br>

Disappear without a sound<br>

The desperate ones<br>

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