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 grey 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’clocktails

Then you came along with your siren’s 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

Oh, 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 truffle 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
And yet you are still burning inside my brain!

Romance is much, 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