By the way, if anyone’s interested in the caption Hudson used on Instagram, it’s from Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott (1979).
At first glance, it sounds like a song about Paris. But it really isn’t. Paris is just the setting where a memory lives.
The song is usually understood as someone looking back on a love that’s already over. It never tells us what happened. There isn’t a dramatic breakup, an argument, or even an explanation. There’s only the memory of a person who once meant everything.
That’s why the lyrics focus on places instead of emotions. The Champs-Élysées, Saint-Michel, old Beaujolais wine… they’re not there to describe the city. They’re the details that survived after the relationship was gone. The kind of details that unexpectedly bring someone back to mind years later.
“And I recall that you were mine.” That’s the line that changes everything. It’s written in the past tense. Not as a way of holding on, but as a quiet acceptance that what they shared belonged to another time.
Some people have also interpreted the song as remembering a love that could never fully exist—something secret, forbidden, or simply impossible to keep. The lyrics never confirm that, and that’s part of their beauty. They leave enough space for anyone to see their own story in them.
In the end, Parisienne Walkways isn’t really about losing someone. It’s about what remains after love is gone: the places, the memories, and the strange way they stay with us long after the person has disappeared.
Interesting, isn't it? The way he didn't even add the song to the post but took the time to write down the lyrics as a caption.
I saw some people suggesting that this could be the last hurrah before, well, the inevitable. We'll see...