Lush Life

I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheels of life
To get a feel of life
From jazz and cocktails

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingué 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 song
And 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 troughful of hearts
Could only be a bore

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it
All I want to do is love in spite of it

I'll forget you, I will
Yet you are still
Burning inside my brain

Romance is mush
It stifles 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