He was just a poor boy livin' down by the railroad tracks   His father worked so hard to provide that he died of a cardiac   He made himself a promise to leave the poverty behind   Now climbing up the corporate ladder   is all that matters in his grand design      You can forget about friends in your climb before your fall   The climb before the fall   Alone at the top you feel the pressure pulling you   And you try in your mind   to repent your sins in your climb before your fall   The climb before the fall   Change your ways or you will pay in your dying days   In the end, in the end, in the end      Sunrise now and he has to get to work,   he's gotta tell someone what to do   Lives his life thinkin' how to get ahead,   kickin' of his corporate shoes   Throws his credit cards in everyone's face,   name droppin' 'cause he thinks it's cool   Doesn't realize he doesn't know how to act,   he's just lookin' like a complete fool      He left everyone he loved alone out in the cold   His mother was standing in the welfare line   while he was up to his neck in gold   Now he's become a millionaire   and he's sitting right at the top   But he found that the higher up the mountain   means the longer that you're gonna drop