Going Down lyrics
by Galt MacDermot
[BERGER]
Me and Lucifer, Lucifer and me
Just like the angel that fell
Banished forever to Hell
Today have I been expelled
From high school Heaven
Elevator going down, going down, going down
Everybody going down, going down, going down
[PAUL, spoken]
High school dropouts, don't give up
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[BERGER]
This is my doom, my humiliation
October, not June and it's summer vacation
Such a disgrace, how can I face the nation?
Why should this pain bring me such strange elation?
Oh, oh
[BERGER & TRIBE]
Everybody going down, going down, going down
Everybody going down, going down, going down
[BERGER]
Emancipation Proclamation
Oh, Dr. Lincoln, my head needs shrinkin'
Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lu-Lucifer and me
Doomed from here to eternity
Bah
[BERGER & TRIBE]
Everybody going down, down, down, going down
Everybody going down, down, down, going down
[TRIBE]
Down, down, everybody going
Down, down, everybody going
[BERGER & TRIBE]
Forgive me if I don't cry (Down, down, everybody going)
It's like the Fourth of July (Down, down, everybody going)
Thank God that angels can fly (Down, down, everybody going)
Down, down, down
Going down, down, down
Going down, down, down
Going down