From the album Ghost of Your Guitar Solo
This is a song about someone celebrating their elevation while everyone else is watching a disaster happen in real time. The speaker insists they're 'on top of the world' so many times it stops sounding like triumph and starts sounding like someone stuck in a moment they can't or won't leave, repeating the phrase like a drunk person repeating themselves because they've run out of things to say.
We were on top of the world / There was an infinity pool
Past tense for the collective experience, present tense urgency underneath. The infinity pool detail does double work: it's the luxury amenity that marks this as a real place, and it's also the visual joke about being stuck at an edge with no clear boundary between water and air, safety and falling.
My friends were wondering / 'How do we get him down from there?'
The 'we' collapses into 'him.' What the speaker experienced as shared triumph, his friends experienced as watching someone in danger. He doesn't seem to notice or care that the celebration is over for everyone but him.
There's one thousand stars in the sky tonight / It's a beautiful night / Life is good
He's counting stars and announcing beauty like someone trying to convince themselves or延 the moment past its natural end. The specific number, the insistence that 'life is good,' reads like he's talking himself into staying up there. Not sure if he's too drunk to realize the danger or just choosing to ignore it.
I'm on top of the world
Third time he's said this exact phrase, and by now it's lost all meaning except the fact that he's still saying it. The song ends without resolution, no coming down, no aftermath. He's still up there.
The song doesn't resolve because the speaker is still up there, still insisting life is good, still counting stars like someone who's forgotten or refusing to acknowledge that everyone else has already left. It's Lenderman's version of the drunk guy at the party who doesn't realize the party ended an hour ago, except the party is happening on a rooftop and his friends are genuinely scared he's going to fall.