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 callin you down
I do my best and I do good business
There's alot of people askin 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 callin 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 screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If I had my way, I'd just walk through those doors
And wander down the Champs-Élysées
Goin' café to cabaret
Thinkin 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 callin 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
Stokin the star maker machinery behind the popular song