It's a long way down from the top to the bottom And I'm slipping all the time So many people around me Trying to take whats really mine I made it all alone Not a single helping hand So many people are afraid of The things they don't understand It's lonely at the top Everybody's trying to do you in All the losers down below Trying to drag you back there again It's lonely at the top It's a long, long lonely drop And I feel I'm slipping day by day My number isn't listed But they stop me in the street Catch me in the elevator Now they're turning on the heat I think I'm going crazy But I know I'm not alone There's a private detective in the car behind And a bugging device on the phone It's lonely at the top Everybody's trying to do you in All the losers down below Trying to drag you back there again It's lonely at the top It's a long, long lonely drop And I feel I'm slipping day by day It's lonely at the top Everybody's trying to do you in All the losers down below Trying to drag you back there again It's lonely at the top It's a long, long lonely drop And I feel I'm slipping day by day