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