Lush Life

I, I used to visit all these very gay places

Those come what may places

Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life

To get a feel of life

From jazz and cocktails



The girls I knew had sad and sullen grey faces

With distant gay traces

That used to be there

You could see where they've been washed away

By too many through the day

Twelve o'clock tales



Then suddenly you came along

With a siren song

It tempts me to madness

I thought for a while that your poignant smile

Was tinged with the sadness...

Of a great love for me

But, I was wrong

I was wrong



Life is lonely again,

And only last week, everything seemed so sure.

Now life is awful again,

A trough full of hearts will probably be a bore, a bore



A week I might go to Paris

At least a bite of it

All, all I want to do is laugh in spite of it



I'll forget you, I will

And yet you are still

Burning inside my brain

Romance is mush

And it stifles those who strive

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

And I, I'll be alright with the rest

All those whose lives are lonely too