Neil Diamond - Free Man in Paris Lyrics

The way I see it, I just can't win it
Everybody's in it for their own game
You can't please them all
There's always somebody callin' you down
And I do my best and I do good business
As a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
And try and be a good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris, I was ? and alive
There was nobody to call me up for favors
No one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I'm taking on
? star makin' machinery
Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers and telephone schemers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If I had my way, I'd walk through that door and wonder
Down the ? going cafe to cabaret
Thinkin' how I feel when I find
That very good friend of mine