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...