By: Jimmy Buffett
1973
He went to Paris lookin' for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressive, young and aggressive
Savin' the world on his own

But the warm summer breezes
The French wines and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away

Then he went to England, played the piano
And married an actress named Kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
And bore him a young son named Jim

And all of the answers and all of the questions
Locked in his attic one day
'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'
And twenty more years slipped away

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
And left him with only one eye
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry

While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin'
Answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
And drinks his Green Label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'
But he don't care what most people say

Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say
"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way"

Coda:
And he went to Paris lookin' for answers
To questions that bothered him so

Alice in the Looking Glass Let Them Die The Kick Inside of Me Take The Money And Run Working My Way Back to You Woah Desperate Angel DESPERATE HEART I Just Want To Be The One In Your Life Venus In Force Cradle To The Grave (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone Pathetic Great Divide Authority Song I Hate People Like That Esporrei Na Manivela Weary With Toil Working for the Enemy Den Blomstertid Nu Kommer Reach for the Sky This Is Not The House That Pain Built Red Shoes Black Velvet Band

In The End Little Things A Million Miles Away Come With Us I Won't Spend Another Night Alone Top Of The World Here Comes The Night Invisible Man Stupid Hymn Crazy Mega's On His Own Cosmic Friend Candidate Jealous Evil The Boat Of Millions Of years Every Picture I Paint Waste of Time Are You That Somebody Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) Out of Tears How It Is Backyard Story Ich Vergess' Dich