"Love In Paris" lyrics

I didn't come here looking for a feeling
Came here with a setlist and a suitcase and some nerves
Somebody in the third row knew the second verse
And I forgot the words to my own song

Nobody warned me about that part
The part where a room full of strangers knows you
I've played to empty rooms in my own language
And here you were, singing mine back

Love in Paris, love I didn't plan
You held my heart before I held your hand
A city full of strangers, yet I felt like I belonged
Love in Paris, love that makes me strong

Somebody handed me a letter in French
I read it in the van at two in the morning
Took me forty minutes and a phone to understand it
It was worth every one of them

You were there before I knew I'd come this far
Before the numbers, before the plane tickets
Someone was listening in a small room somewhere
And that someone turned out to be a whole city

Love in Paris, love I didn't plan
You knew the words before I understood
A city full of strangers who weren't strangers
Love in Paris, love that makes me strong

Twelve years of this and I still don't have the language
For what it does to me when you sing along
I'm not good at saying thank you in a sentence
So I keep writing songs instead

Love in Paris, love I didn't plan
You held my heart before I held your hand
I'll carry this forever when I'm gone
Love in Paris, love that makes me strong