tabbed by M. Otai) 

Nothing can stop him now no one can top him now 
I guess I'll have to let him go 
Up, up, up, the ladder of success (up, up, up, up.) 

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Once he let me share his dreams
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But now that they come true it seems 
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He doesn't want my love I guess look there goes my happiness 
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They're climbin' up up up the ladder of success 

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(The ladder of success.) 

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Things are like he said they'd be 
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I thought his plans included me 
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He forgot his words of love fame is all he's thinking of 
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A going up up up up the ladder of success
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(The ladder of success.) 

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I liked him better in his white dungarees 
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When he was all mine with patches on his knees 
(With patches on his knees) 

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When his name went up in lights 
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All I got were lonely nights. 

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He doesn't want my love I guess 
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Look there goes my happiness 
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A goin' up up up up the ladder of success 
(Climbin' up whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...)