Lush Life

Introdução: Verse 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 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 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 Melody 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 could 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     So 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