A woman came and said to me She'd a lady sell her baby For ten or twenty dollars maybe And everybody thinks she's crazy They're too blind see She never failed to call attention To the we never mention Real horror, daily, courtesy of your TV C'est Vie
[Chorus:] A woman came and said to me Now listen very carefully There's brother killing brother People living their knees Biting sugar coated bullets For the pain of this disease La Vie
A woman came and said to me She a husband on an island his body on a wasteland Soldiers came and took him Just to torture her you see All alone she mourned her lover Crossed the sea to a brother Maybe he could help her get her baby back for C'est La Vie