Karaoké Free Man in Paris Joni Mitchell

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 trying to get ahead

They're 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 one's future to decide

You know I'd go back there tomorrow but for the work I've taken on

Stoking the starmaker 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-Élysées

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 felt unfettered and alive

Nobody was calling me up for favors

No one's future to decide

You know I'd go back there tomorrow but for the work I've taken on

Stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song