This Is the Life

Lyrics

[SAM] 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 at night, I can even snore The closet's mine, every hanger in there No more loaded hooks do I ever share The tub is mine! The sink is mine! The chair is minе! The room is mine! Yes-siree! This is thе 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 over-anxious thought About her mood or what she's thinking of No more the hopeless feeling that I'm 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! [SAM, spoken] Room service! [SAM] It's great when you're hungry To phone below yet not have to wait 'til your wife... [SAM, spoken] Hello! [SAM] My name is Samuel Cooper in seven-twenty-eight I'd 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! [SAM, spoken] What? Yes, I said for one! You heard me! Damn it! Service for one! [SAM] Why do they ask me every 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 memories never go I even think they're starting 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! [SAM, spoken] Free [SAM] 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! [SAM, spoken] Room service! [SAM] I've got my freedom, the thing is done But what's the sense if I don't have fun? This is Samuel 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've got my freedom The perfect life! Don't have a family, 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!