D5 
C'est la vie. 
          C5 
Have your leaves all turned to brown? 
         Bb5           C5 
Will you scatter them around you? 
D5 
C'est la vie. 
 

       D5 
Do you love? 
         C5 
And then how am I to know 
       Bb5                  C5 
If you don't let your love show for me? 
D5 
C'est la vie. 
 
Chorus: 
G5               D5 
Oh, oh, c'est la vie. 
G5               D5 
Oh, oh, c'est la vie. 
    G5         E5         A5 
Who knows, who cares for me? 
         D5 
C'est la vie. 
 

       D5 
In the night, 
       C5 
Do you light a lover's fire? 
       Bb5       C5              D5 
Do the ashes of desire for you remain? 
 

         D5 
Like the sea, 
          C5  
There's a love too deep to show. 
       Bb5                   C5 
Took a storm before my love flowed for you. 
D5 
C'est la vie. 
 
+ Chorus 
 
+ Interlude 
       D5 
Like a song, 
       C5 
Out of tune and out of time, 
      Bb5           C5 
All I needed was a rhyme for you; 
D5 
C'est la vie. 
 

       D5 
Do you give? 
       C5 
Do you live from day to day? 
         Bb5 
Is there no song I can play for you? 
D5 
C'est la vie. 
 
+ Chorus