Free Man in Paris

"The way I see it", he said, you just can't win it

Everybody's in it for their own gain you can't please 'em all

There's always somebody calling you down

I do my best and I do good business

There's a lot of people asking for my time, they're trying to get ahead

They're trying to be a good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive

There was nobody calling me up for favors and no one's future to decide

You know I'd go back there tomorrow, but for the work I've taken on

Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers

Lately I wonder what I do it for

If l had my way, I'd just walk out those doors

And wander down the Champs Elysees

Going cafe to cabaret thinking how I'll feel when I find

That very good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive

Nobody was calling me up for favors, no one's future to decide

You know I'd go back there tomorrow, but for the work I've taken on

Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song