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 calling you down"
I do my best and I do good business
There's a lot of people asking for my time
Tryna get ahead, tryna be a good friend of mine
But 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
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
If all the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song, hmmn yea
I deal in dreamers at telephone screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way, I'd just 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
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
If all the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song (behind a popular song)