20Th Century Blues

Marianne Faithfull 20Th Century Blues Album

8.Intro

Now we move on, we move on a bit in time. Not much, but a
little. We are now in Paris at the end of the Second World War,
and the allies have come in and liberated Paris and everyone is
having a wonderful time. It's full of Americans and English and
Russians, and everybody. And there is a woman who during the war
was a nurse, now she's a prostitute. I must admit I've always
thought there is a connection between these two. They both take
care of you really, don't they ? And she's plying her trade and
cheering up all the soldiers in Paris. But there, there was a
man she loved, really loved, who's now dead in a far away grave
somewhere. And sometimes she can't help but think about him, and
then she, she starts to suffer. And then she turns away and
pulls herself together and gets on with it. Mon Ami, My Friend.