Free Man In Paris

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

Everybody's in it for their own game, 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 askin' for my time

Tryna 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 I had my way I'd walk through those doors

And wander down the Champs-d'Elysees

Goin' cafe to cabaret

Think of how I'd feel when I found that very good friend of mine

La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la

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 (Before the work I've taken on)

Stoking the star maker machinery (B-B-B-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 (Before the work I've taken on)

Stoking the star maker machinery (B-B-B-Behind the popular song)