I had an atom smasher/I was using it to mow my lawn I was a party crasher/I used to stay 'til the rest of the guests were gone I was an empire builder/with properties that hid the sky I had a charcoal filter/but now there's nothing left for me to purify Because you/took my world And placed it somewhere I was not allowed Yeah you/stole my whole world Now I don't know how to knock you off your cloud But the space you fill/is blank as hell And if you go/it's just as well But won't you throw a rope to one who fell? One who fell I had a stately manor/and a 9.7% yield I was an urban planner/from Toluca Lake out to Bakersfield I was a power broker/in my private Parthenon I had an all-day s**er/but you took three licks and it was gone Since you/stole the world And put it where the air's too thin to breathe Yeah you/stole my whole world And left me down here where the serpents seethe But the space you fill/is blank as hell And if you go/it's just as well But won't you throw a rope to one who fell? One who fell