Lyrics

A New Life Now - Reflections of The Senior Nomad
Ⓒ 2019 Drexel Rayford, Vagrants Chapel Music

It was not about me, at least that’s what she said.
But she’d discovered that she would prefer another instead.
I had nothing to say. I had to tears to shed.

Now I know I knew a lot of things for many long years.
But it would cost me dearly to acknowledge my fears.
So I didn’t really listen to what my heart could hear,
‘Til it was brutally clear.

I felt the bottom drop out.
I’ll never puzzle this out.
I found that in is out.
I’ve got a new life now.

So I came to this town into an exile of my own.
Like some emperor confined to an island alone.
Who found his words were all air when he thought they’d been in stone

I’m aware of what John Lennon said about making plans.
You can make ‘em all you want but then Life steals your pants.
Then it doesn’t really matter if your grasshopper or proverbial ant.

I felt the bottom drop out.
I’ll never puzzle this out.
I found that in is out.
I’ve got a new life now.

I’ve got a new life now.


Who’d want a relic like me, a long way past his prime?
With all his pick-up lines mired in a bygone time.
And that sound that I hear is my midnight hour chime.

And then I strolled into a store of kitchen merchandise.
A woman came to help and she had stunning green eyes.
AAnd I couldn’t help myself, I asked her for the Prize, and to my surprise,

I felt the bottom drop out.
I’ll never puzzle this out.
I found that in is out.
I’ve got a new life now.

I’ve got a new life now.