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 them all

There's always someone calling you down

Calling you down, calling you down

But I do my best

And I do good business, I do it well

There's a lot of people asking for my time

Trying to get ahead

They're trying to be a good friend of mine

I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers

Lately, I wonder what I do it for

If l had my way

I'd walk through 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

(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 was a free man in Paris

(I felt unfettered and alive)

Nobody was 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)