Free Man in Paris

Hit it

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 them all

There's always somebody talking you down

Now, I do my best and I do a 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

And you know I'd go back there tomorrow

But for the work I've taken on

Stoking the star-making machinery

Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers

Lately I wonder what I do it for

If I had my way

I'd just walk out those doors

And wander down the Champs-Élysées

Going café to cabaret

Thinking how I'd 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

Smoking the star-making machinery

Behind the popular song