Lush Life

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

The girls I knew had sad and solemn, gray faces
With distant gay traces
They used to be that you could see
Where they been watched away
By too many through the day
12 o'clock tale

Then you came along
With your siren song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while
That your poigniant smile
Was tinged with a sadness

What a great love for me
Ah, yes
I was wrong again
I was wrong (three, four)

Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so sure
Now life is awful again
A truffle 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

Ah, forget you, I will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain
Romance is mush
Stifling those whose stive
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