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 of 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 troughful 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 I'll be

While I rot

With the rest of those

Whose lives are lonely, too