Be a good kid, stick at it and give it all that you've got -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Keep your teeth clean, real shiny, with bleach and a bucket and mop -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Find a girlfriend or a boyfriend, someone you never would swap -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Get a hard-on so hard that the whole world knows that you're no flop -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Get married, get a mortgage, forget how to get each other off -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Become distant, have a cheap fling with someone you met through your job -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Get found out, get a divorce. Big deal, so what -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

On your own now, what a relief. But when will this loneliness stop?

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Had enough now, lost touch now, gradually losing the plot -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Find some paper, write your goodbyes, climb a mountain, throw yourself off -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Hit the bottom, not dead though. Get up and dust yourself off -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

On the way home find a pigsty, keep the pigs out & feed on their slop -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Start yearning for religion. After all, sinners are hot -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Join a big cult who killed their leader and offered his blood up to their God -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

But the world's still bad cuz your God wants more. He wants all that you've got -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Sacrifice yourself for the harvest, live on in next years crop -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

Wake up now. Just a weird dream. Thanks heavens it stopped -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

But that dream just keeps naggin'. What did mean & what was the cost?

Could it be my Ticket To The Top?

Write the dream down. Make a song up. A long song, decidedly pop -

Call the pop song 'Ticket To The Top'.

Make the song so fuckin' catchy that once it starts it never can stop -

This could be my Ticket To The Top.

Like a slow dance for the hip kids. With a skip, step, shuffle & hop -

This could be their Ticket To The Top.

So be a good kid, stick at it & give it all that you've got -

This could be your Ticket To The Top.

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