Lush Life Lyrics

Lush Life lyrics

I used to visit all the very gay places

Those come what may places

Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life

To get the feel of
life...

From jazz and cocktails.



The girls I knew had sad
and sullen gray faces

With distant gay traces

That used to be there
you could see where they'd been washed away

By too many through the
day...

Twelve o'clock tales.



Then you came along with your
siren of song

To tempt me to madness!

I thought for a while that
your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness

Of a great love for
me.



Ah yes! I was wrong...

Again,

I was wrong.



Life is lonely again,

And only last year everything seemed so
sure.

Now life is awful again,

A troughful of hearts could only be
a bore.

A week in paris will ease the bite of it,

All I care is to
smile in spite of it.



I'll forget you, I will

While yet you
are still burning inside my brain.

Romance is mush,

Stifling those
who strive.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive...

And there
I'll be, while I rot

With the rest of those whose lives are lonely,
too..