When You're Number One (There's No Place Left to Go)

Sittin' in my house on a hill in Laurel Canyon

Lookin' out the window at the lights below

Listenin' to a record I just made that'll soon be number one

But when you're number one, there's no place left to go

Someone's in my pool who's lovely, tall and suntanned

And someone's in my bed who I don't even know

Well, everybody says I got it made, but what do they all know?

'Cause when you're number one, there's no place left to go

Well, I was born in a ghetto on a street in New York City

Watchin' my friends gettin' busted one by one

Well, I didn't have nothin' but a

Poor boy's dreams and a broken guitar

Those were hard times, hustlin' for dimes

Sittin' on the sidewalk rhymin' my rhymes

Rhymin' my rhymes

I got a chauffeur Cadillac that's parked out in the driveway

And a yellow Rolls Royce just sittin' there for show

Well, everybody wants to be on top, but brother, they don't know

That when you're number one, there's no place left to go

Sittin' in my house on a hill in Laurel Canyon

Lookin' out the window at the lights below

Someone's in my pool who's lovely, tall and suntanned

And someone's in my bed who I don't even know

Sittin' in my house on a hill in Laurel Canyon

Lookin' out the window at the lights below