The way I see it,
You just can´t win it.
Everybody´s in it for their own gain
You can´t please ´em all
There´s always somebody calling you down

And I do my best
And I do good business
There´s a lot of people asking for my time
They´re trying to get ahead
They´re trying to be a good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris
I was unfettered and alive
There was nobody to call me up for favors
And no one´s future to decide
You know I´d go back there tomorrow
But for the work I´ve taken on
Stokin´ the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers
And telephone schemers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way, I´d walk through that door
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 was unfettered and alive
There was nobody to call me up for favors
And no one´s future to decide
You know I´d go back there tomorrow
But for the work I´ve taken on
Stokin´ the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers
And telephone schemers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way
I´d walk through that door
And wander down the Champs Elysees
Going cafe to cabaret
Thinking how I´ll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine