Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris

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 calling 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 {Refrain} I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive There was nobody callin' me up for favors 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 machinery behind the popular song 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 wander Down the Champs Elysees Going cafe to cabaret, thinking how I'd feel when I find That very good friend of mine {Refrain}