Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris lyrics

The way I see it, he said<br>You just can't win it...<br>Everybody's in it for their own gain<br>You can't please 'em all<br>There's always somebody calling you down<br>I do my best<br>And I do good business<br>There's a lot of people asking for my time<br>They're trying to get ahead<br>They're trying to be a good friend of mine<br><br>I was a free man in paris<br>I felt unfettered and alive<br>There was nobody calling me up for favors<br>And no one's future to decide<br>You know I'd go back there tomorrow<br>But for the work I've taken on<br>Stoking the star maker machinery<br>Behind the popular song<br><br>I deal in dreamers<br>And telephone screamers<br>Lately I wonder what I do it for<br>If l had my way<br>I'd just walk through those doors<br>And wander<br>Down the champs elysees<br>Going cafe to cabaret<br>Thinking how I'll feel when I find<br>That very good friend of mine<br><br>I was a free man in paris<br>I felt unfettered and alive<br>Nobody was calling me up for favors<br>No one's future to decide<br>You know I'd go back there tomorrow<br>But for the work I've taken on<br>Stoking the star maker machinery<br>Behind the popular song.