When this old world starts getting me down / And people are just too much for me to face / I climb way up to the top of the stairs

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Up on the Roof

by Gerry Goffin and Carole King

first recording by The Drifters 1962

When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
And there the world below can't bother me

Let me tell you now

When I come home feelin' tired and beat
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet
up on the roof

I get away from the hustling crowd
And all that rat-race noise down in the street
up on the roof

On the roof, the only place I know
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let's go up on the roof
up on the roof

At night the stars put on a show for free
And darling you can share it all with me

I keep a-tellin' you

Right smack dab in the middle of town
I've found a paradise that's trouble proof
up on the roof

And if this world starts getting you down
There's room enough for two
Up on the roof

Up on the roo-oo-oof

Oh come on baby
up on the roof
Oh come on honey
up on the roof

Everything is all right
up on the roof