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Life Story Lyrics by Christiane Noll

Closer Than Ever (2012 Off-Broadway Cast)

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[WOMAN 1]
It was a liberated marriage
We shared the household chores, of course
We understood each other's feelings
Right down to the day of our sensible divorce
I didn't ask him for a penny
I'd had my "liberated" training
So off he went with his hair of bronze
To find a life like Kahlil Gibran's
I got my rest from the drugs he did
He got his quest, I got the kid
And oh—I'm not complaining
So I set off to be a writer
A modern mother on her own
I wrote up happenings at galleries
Turned down jobs with salaries
Stayed free-lance and alone
I fought the battles of the sixties (Yeah)
Which, you recall, were rather draining
When men were thick, I'd hit the fray
Became a prick, got equal pay
I faced down chauvinistic slobs
I won the fights, improved the jobs
And oh—I'm not complaining
My husband found himself his ashram
Lost forty pounds and went through hell
Then one day he came back from limbo
Found himself some bimbo
And moved to New Rochelle
I raised my son and I had lovers
My choices sometimes take explaining
I'd meet some jock, my friends would scoff
He's stay awhile, I'd drive him off
I kept my space, preserved my turf
Six months—I'd send him back to surf
And oh—I was not complaining
So now my son's halfway through college
I pay tuition like a fine
I'm still this feisty free-lance writer
Resume well-honed at a well-toned forty-nine
I find that getting work is harder
Each job I want takes more campaigning
And those sweet young things who hire me know
Those M.B.A.'s making ninety thou
Who smile and ask what I have done
When they got their jobs from the fights I won
[WOMAN 1, spoken]
Ah, they should all just stay home and have babies!
[WOMAN 1]
But I'm not complaining
And in the evening at my window
As I watch Jersey growing dim
I feel this troubling emotion
Summed up in this notion:
I wish I'd stayed with him
Lord knows each day with him was madness
As I have spent my life maintaining
But more and more I recall the joy
My golden dreamer, my lost boy
Our life was life in "The Twilight Zone"
But no worse than a life alone
And oh—
Well, I chose my way
And I'm not complaining
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Christiane Noll

Christiane Noll

About “Life Story” by Christiane Noll

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"Life Story" appears on "Closer Than Ever (2012 Off-Broadway Cast)".

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