Free Man In Paris

1. 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 putting you down,

I do my best and I do good business,

There's a lot of people asking for my time,

They're tryin' to get ahead;

they're tryin' to be a good friend of mine,

R: I was a free man in Paris,

I felt unfettered and alive,

There was nobody callin' me up for favours

and no-ones future to decide,

You know I'd go back there tomorrow

but for the work I've taken on,

stokin' the star maker machinary behind the popular songs.

2. I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers,

Lately I wonder what I do it for; if I had my way,

I'd just walk through those doors, and wan-der,

down the Champs Elysees;

going cafe to cabaret, thinking

how I'd feel when I find,

that very good friend of mine

R: I was a free man in Paris...