[Verse 1]
She wore red heels on cobbled stone
The streets of Paris felt like home
But smoke rose high above the spire
Notre-Dame caught in ghostly fire
The bells that rang in sacred time
Now echoed fear, no longer rhyme
She froze beneath a weeping sky
A thousand years began to cry
[Chorus]
When the skies burned over Paris
And hearts stood still in grief
She whispered hope in silence
Like fall leaves on a breeze
Though the flames consumed the past
She knew the soul of art would last
And she vowed right then to stand
For love, for light, for France
[Verse 2]
Paint peeled on doors she used to pass
The Seine moved slow like melting glass
She lit a candle, watched it shake
Each flicker sang: rebuild, remake
They came with bricks and songs to sing
And wrote on walls: “Let’s rise again”
No fear can turn the colors gray
Not when the spirit leads the way
[Bridge]
From Montmartre to the Latin shore
They painted love through every war
She raised a flag not made of thread
But words the poets long had said
[Chorus Repeat]
When the skies burned over Paris
The people bled with grace
But in the ash, a flower bloomed
In every cornered place
And in her eyes a vow was born:
No flame will leave us torn
[Outro]
So light returns, not just to stone
But in her heart—this city’s home
