Now That I've Taken My Life (LP Version)-Tom Paxton

[ti:Now That I've Taken My Life (LP Version)] [ar:Tom Paxton] [al:The Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help Wonder Wher I'm Bound: The Elektra Years (US Release)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Now That I've Taken My Life (LP Version) - Tom Paxton [00:07.25]Now that I've taken my life [00:10.07]Hiding the damp remains [00:12.72]Scouring the stubborn stains erasing them carefully [00:20.25]Breaking the dreams of a life [00:23.43]And interring them prayerfully [00:25.81] [00:28.17]My telephone never stops ringing [00:31.39]Now that I've taken my life [00:35.67]Now that I've taken my life [00:38.54]Pleading reality [00:42.61]Mumbling morality and losing the child I was [00:49.83]Smiling my youth to the wall [00:52.49]And recalling how wild I was [00:56.83]I'm a very popular man [01:01.23]Now that I've taken my life [01:04.32]It was a foolish life I know [01:08.17]Ivory towered and quite out of touch [01:11.84]It was a life that had to go [01:15.35]I guess I won't miss it much [01:19.03]For the solid gold women are standing in line [01:23.03]And dangling a solid gold key [01:27.14]The very best hostesses pour me my wine [01:30.84]Introducing their daughters to me [01:35.37]Now that I've taken my life remembering the April air [01:42.35]My hands in a curs'ry prayer my eyes on the crowd outside [01:50.39]The music is merry the laughter is comfortably loud outside [01:57.75]And the laughter I'm hearing is mine [02:02.22]Now that I've taken my life [02:05.18]It was a foolish life I know [02:08.71]Ivory towered and quite out of touch [02:12.92]It was a life that had to go [02:16.47]I guess I won't miss it much [02:20.34]For the solid gold women are standing in line [02:24.37]And dangling a solid gold key [02:28.47]The very best hostesses pour me my wine [02:32.23]Introducing their daughters to me [02:37.03]Now that I've taken my life hiding the damp remains [02:43.40]Scouring the stubborn stains erasing them carefully [02:52.27]Breaking the dreams of a life and interring them prayerfully [02:59.40]My telephone never stops ringing [03:02.19]Now that I've taken my life