Free Man in Paris

The way I see it,

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

And 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 was unfettered and alive

There was nobody to call 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

Stokin' the star maker machinery

Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers

And telephone schemers

Lately I wonder what I do it for

If l had my way, I'd walk through that door

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 was unfettered and alive

There was nobody to call 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

Stokin' the star maker machinery

Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers

And telephone schemers

Lately I wonder what I do it for

If l had my way

I'd walk through that door

And wander down the Champs Elysees

Going cafe to cabaret

Thinking how I'll feel when I find

That very good friend of mine