I should be knocking on the door of the pearly gates
  why keep a poor man alive in a job he hates
  I've heard that good things will come to he who waits
  I should be riding on a float in the hit parade
  instead of sitting on the curb behind the barricade
  another verse in the doormat serenade
  
  Won't you put me on top
  won't you put me on top, or change the odds
  won't you put me on top
  or at least put some hope in the bottom of the box
  
  Oh, at least put some hope in the box for me
  'cause it's only black and white and not a lot of each
  there's a remote on the shelf, but it's out of reach
  
  Won't you put me on top
  won't you put me on top, or change the odds
  won't you put me on top
  or at least put some hope in the bottom of the box
  
  Put some hope in the bottom of the box
  I need it