Top of the Bottom Lyrics

I started playing guitar by the town memorial

All my songs were singing editorials

And when I'd done the Sermon on the Mount

I counted my change and put it in my bank account

I didn't wanna work at the local abattoir

So I left home, expanded my repertoire

I did some gigs, no one booed

Got free beer and drank it with gratitude

Once I started, couldn't stop

That's how I got from the bottom to the top

A businessman with a very young dolly bird

Talked through the set, liked what he thought he heard

Dropped some names he claimed to represent

And asked me if I had any management

Well, two weeks later, I'm signing on a dotted line

Offered some drugs, at first I declined

Lots of parties where the spread's incredible

But don't get close, cos the food's inedible

I became a spinning top

That's how I got from the bottom to the top

Of the bottom

Got a sweet deal and moved to America

I fell in love with an heiress called Erica

Started out smart, soon got silly

A party by the pool and an arrest for necrophilia

News travels like electricity

A bad mugshot, it's good publicity

I laid low for a month or two

And spent my dough building a recording studio

And that's when it all went pop

That's how I got from the bottom to the top

Of the bottom

The label and payola got me in the charts

My new management had me by the private parts

I went on strike, took the initiative

Forgetting that I didn't have a single thing to bargain with

I lost my nerve, my fall was glorious

The lawsuit was eternal and laborious

My new material was only fair-to-middling

Rome was burning and I did some fiddling

And finally, I was dropped

That's how I got back from the bottom to the top

Of the bottom

On the way down, people tend to leave you where you fall

I tried to stand up but I didn't have the wherewithal

I nearly died in a cab one day

So I swapped my bourbon for a bottle full of Perrier

There were rumours about my sexuality

The video star, killed by reality

Next thing I know, I'm on my knees

Begging the camera: Will you vote me off the island please?

But the world forgives a flop

That's how I got back from the bottom to the top

Of the bottom

Well, all that exposure and the phones start to ring again

I experience the strange urge to sing again

Not long ago, I was a boy with a dream

I reacquaint myself with a razor and some shaving cream

Look at me, I'm ripe for rediscovery

All I need is Mary to mother me

On the tenth green, I was way over par

My partner offered me a tour of Jesus Christ Superstar

And that's when the penny dropped

That's how I got back from the bottom to the top

Of the bottom

Well, we Toured all over the States of America

I got a picture of my son from Erica

My parents wrote: "Since you disappeared

Hard to believe, but it's just been one year"

Now it's back to ale and cakes again

I wonder if I'll make the same mistakes again

I hope that you've enjoyed this tutorial

There's another busker who was playing the memorial

I'm getting bored of talking shop

That's how I got back from the bottom to the top

Of the bottom to the top of the bottom

To the top of the bottom