THIS IS THE LIFE

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Song Title
THIS IS THE LIFE
Writers
Whyton
Publisher
CHESHIRE MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
Cold, Country, Danger, Fame, Home, Musicians, One Night Stand, Road, Snow, Tour, Town, travel
Lyrics
This is the life, the life for me! This is the way that life should be!
I’m free!
I can be as sloppy as I damn well please,
I can sprawl on the bed at my leisure and ease,
I can throw my ashes all around the floor,
I can read all night, I can even snore.
The closet’s mine, ev’ry hanger in there.
No more loaded hooks do I ever share.
The tub is mine! The sink is mine!
The chair is mine! The room is mine!
Yes, siree!
This is the life. The life for me!
I’m free!
Sure, I miss the kids I guess,
I miss them more than I could ever say.
But I am told that time will make it less
And I’ll grow used to having them away.
Outside of that I’m glad I am alone.
This is the sweetest living I have known.
No more the troubled overanxious thought
About her mood or what she’s thinking of.
No more the hopeless feeling I am caught.
Oh yes there’s peace in having not to love.
Yes there is peace in hearing no one sigh.
Yes there is peace and that’s the reason why
This is the life! The life for me!
This is the way it ought to be!
I’m free! (Speaks into telephone) Room service!
It’s great when you’re hungry to phone below
And not have to wait till your wife…Hello!
My name is Samu’l Cooper in seventwentyeight.
I like to order dinner before it is too late.
I’ll have shrimps and steak, make it medium well,
And the richest dessert in the whole hotel,
But speed is important. Bring it on the run.
I’m hungry!... What? Yes, I said for one!
You heard me! Damn it! Service for one!
Why do they ask me ev’ry time I phone?
What’s so bizarre about a man alone?
Sure I know it’s not ideal I still have thoughts of her I can’t forget.
But that’s a thing they say that time will heal.
I wonder why it hasn’t done it yet.
I wonder why the mem’ry never go
It even seems they’re starting in to grow.
Now cut it out! Go out and have a whirl.
You know the spots, go out and have a spree.
You’ve got a phone, go get yourself a girl!
Go on you dope! You’re absolutely free!
I wish I were free of that dream I keep dreaming.
The three of them swimming, then starting to drown.
And I’m somewhere else and I don’t hear them screaming…
And thousands of people just watch them go down.
No! I’m not sitting in tonight
I’m heading out where the lights are bright
(Speaks into telephone) Room service!
I’ve got my freedom, the thing is down.
But what’s the sense if I don’t have fun?
This is Samu’l Cooper! The order’s dead!
You’ve been too long! I’m going out instead, I’m going out.
I need a change of view. There must be something out there to do,
I got my freedom, The perfect life,
Don’t have a fam’ly, a home, a wife,
This is the life! The life for me!
This is the way it ought to be!
I’m free! I’m free! I’m free!

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