The way I see it, you said you just can't win it

Everybody's in it for their own game

You can't please them all

There's always someone calling you down.

I do my best and I do good business

There's a lot of people 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 felt infetted and alive

There was no one callin 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

And start make a machinery,

Behind the popular song.

I deal in dreamers and terrible screamers

Lately I wonder why I do it for

If I had my way, I'd just walk through those doors.

And one day, down the champs elysee,

Going café to cabaret, looking now I feel when I find

A very good friend of mine.

I was a free man in paris

I felt infetted and alive

There was no one callin 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

And start make a machinery,

Behind the popular song.

Behind the popular song.