O dungeons and ditches and gutters and hovels
Where poverty bends you to its every whim
Down with the dregs and the elasticated morals
Or places serene where the air is thin
Tell me

Take the chair lift to the summit
And be sure to find yourself a throne upon it
Summon flying monkeys and plumes of smoke
Part the clouds with your lightning bolt

High places are good places
I'm telling you baby it's a fact of life
They don't choose to mingle with our type
High places are good places
I've never been mugged on a mountain hike
You have to be born there to know what it's like
Yeah, high places are good places
I never ever ever felt this good on the ground
High places are good places
Are right places for looking down

Do you want a fetid sewer or a sky of blue?
Sunken garden or one on the roof?
Albatrosses or them brainless moles?
Switching skyward or digging holes?
Basement flat or penthouse suite?
Wieliczka salt mine or mountain retreat?
Altitude or molten core?
Frozen dandy or crushing bore?

High places are good places
I'm telling you baby it's a fact of life
They don't choose to mingle with our type
High places are good places
I've never been mugged on a mountain hike
Do you have to be born there to know what it's like?
High places are good places
I never ever ever felt this good on the ground
High places are good places
Are right places for looking down