text: The way I see it he said
  You just cant win it
  Everybodys in it for their own gain
  You cant please em all
  Theres always somebody calling you down
  I do my best and I do good business
  Theres a lot of people asking for my time
  Theyre trying to get ahead
  Theyre trying to be a 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 ones future to decide
  You know Id go back there tomorrow
  But for the work Ive taken on
  Stoking the star maker machinery
  Behind the popular song
  I deal in dreamers
  And telephone screamers
  Lately I wonder what I do it for
  If l had my way
  Id just walk through those doors
  And wander down the Champs-Élysées
  Going café to cabaret
  Thinking how Ill 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 ones future to decide
  You know Id go back there tomorrow
  But for the work Ive taken on
  Stoking the star maker machinery
  Behind the popular song