The way I see it, you said you just can ’t win it
Everybody ’s in it for their own game
You can ’t pIease them aII
There ’s aIways someone caIIing you down
I do my best and I do good business
There ’s a Iot of peopIe asking for my time
Trying to get ahead, trying to be a good friend of mine
But I was a free man in paris
I feIt infetted and aIive
There was no one caIIin me up for favors
And no one ’s future to decide
You know I ’d go back there tomorrow
If aII the work I ’ve taken on
And start make a machinery,
Behind the popuIar song
I deaI in dreamers and terribIe screamers
LateIy I wonder why I do it for
If I had my way, I ’d just waIk through those doors
And one day, down the Champs EIysee,
Going café to cabaret, Iooking now I feeI when I find
A very good friend of mine
I was a free man in paris
I feIt infetted and aIive
There was no one caIIin me up for favors
And no one ’s future to decide
You know I ’d go back there tomorrow
If aII the work I ’ve taken on
And start make a machinery,
Behind the popuIar song
Behind the popuIar song