Now That I've Taken My Life Lyrics - The Compleat Tom Paxton - Tom Paxton

Now that I've taken my life, hiding the dampenings 

Scouring the stubborn stains erasing them carefully. 

Breaking the dreams of a life and interring them pray fully 

My telephone never stops ringing 

Now that I've taken my life 

Now that I've taken my life, pleading reality 

Mumbling moralities, and loosing the child I was. 

Smiling my youth to the wall and recalling how wild I was 

I'm a very popular man 

Now that I've taken my life 

It was a foolish life I know ivory towered and quite out of touch 

It was a life that had to go I guess I won't miss it much. 

For the solid gold winners are standing in line 

And dangling a solid gold key 

They take me to dinner they pour me my wine 

They ask very little of me 

Now that I've taken my life, remembering the April air 

My hands in a cursory prayer my eyes and the crowd outside 

The music is merry the laughter is comfortably loud outside 

And the laughter I'm hearing is mine 

Now that I've taken my life 

It was a foolish life I know ivory towered and quite out of touch 

It was a life that had to go I guess I won't miss it much. 

For the solid gold women are standing in line 

And dangling a solid gold key 

The very best hostesses pour me my wine 

Extending their daughters to me 

Now that I've taken my life, hiding the dampenings 

Scouring the stubborn stains erasing them carefully. 

Breaking the dreams of a life and interring them pray fully 

Ah there's clearly no stopping me now 

Now that I've taken my life.