Lush Life

I used to visit all the very gay places
The come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From chairs 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'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o 'clock days
Then you came along with your siren song
To tempt me to madness
Oh, I thought for a while
That your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for, for me

Oh, I
I was wrong again
Oh, yes, I was
I was wrong (ooh-ooh-ooh)

Life is lonely again
And only last
Everything seems so sure
Now life is, it's 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 brain

Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I'll live a lush life in some small dive
And there, there I'll be
While I write with the rest of those whose lives are lonely

Too (Lonely)
Lonely
Lonely too
Lonely

Pour me another Please