Lush Life

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 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 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 trough full 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, —side of 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