Lush Life - Live

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 distingue gay traces that used to be there
You could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day, 12 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
Yet, 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 should ease the bite of it
I just care to smile in spite of it
I'll forget you, I will, while yet you are still
Burning inside my brain, romance is much
Stifling those who strive

I will 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