The Man Upstairs Lyrics - Ray Davies

Girl I want to be with you all of the time 

Touring relationships are fine when the 

Hotels take care of the housekeeping 

And you've got room service 

But once you check back in to the reality motel 

The dust appears on your furniture 

The laundry piles up 

And there's no room service to clear away the trash 

That's when the tempers get frayed 

The emotions get heightened 

And the fights break out 

Once we tried renting an apartment together 

But that was also a disaster 

I can't sleep when I write 

My brain keeps working 

The person in the apartment above me 

Must have been an insomniac also 

Because he was still shuffling around at 3 am 

Amazingly he was shuffling around to the beat I had in my head 

As if he were accompanying me 

Then I decided to write this song for the unknown neighbor 

The unseen person above me 

As he listened to the fighting downstairs