[dar-list] survival songs

[Howie]

At 07:38 AM 4/28/2008, Amy wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I'm trying to make a compilation of survival songs - Dar's "After All" and
>Meg Hutchinson's "Home" being two examples of what I mean.

Sometimes I think Tom Paxton's song Now That I've Taken My Life is 
quite the survival song:

Now that I've taken my life, hiding the damp remains,
Scouring the stubborn stains erasing them carefully.
Breaking the dreams of a life and interring them prayerfully
My telephone never stops ringing,
Now that I've taken my life.

Now that I've taken my life, pleading reality,
Mumbling morality, and losing 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 and 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 curs'ry prayer my eyes on 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 the 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 damp remains
Scouring the stubborn stains erasing them carefully.
Breaking the dreams of a life and interring them prayerfully
Ah there's clearly no stopping me now,
Now that I've taken my life.



But other times I think it's a song that's dark, very very dark.

-Howie


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  Howie Lyhte                                         howie at pobox.com
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