C’est La Vie – A song about a poor schmo with a pretty good fatalistic attitude about his rough luck, self-inflicted or not. With a French title! Cool.
Glenn Reid - Lead Vocal, Background Vocal
Rick Gunn - Electric Guitar
David Henman - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Steve Sherman - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboard
Norm Hartshorne - Bass
Max Styles - Drums
Ty Templeton - Piano, Background Vocals
Katherine Templeton-Smith - Background Vocals
Gerreke DeSnoo - Background Vocals
Lyrics
C’est La Vie – Glenn Reid/David Henman
V1 : I’ve been griping and complaining ‘bout the lot I got in life.
Got no money. Got no children, and I sure ain’t got no wife.
Got my health. ‘Least I think I do. Felt a twinge the other day
But I know that bitchin’ does no good. You get nowhere that way.
Chorus: C’est la, c’est la vie, that’s life, that’s life.
C’est la, c’est la vie….
V2 : Went away for a change of scene and they broke into my place.
Took the cat and they stole my car and they never left a trace.
Had a dog that I liked a lot but some trucker squashed him dead.
He looked up at me, with big brown eyes, and this is what he said…
Repeat Chorus
Refrain: (Instrumental) Am, Bm, Am, G Am
(Spoken) “There I was, sittin’, watching the cops tow away my car,
My house on fire behind me. My girlfriend started it.
She was on fire too. What can you do?”
Repeat Chorus and out