Lush Life

Lush Life - Ella Fitzgerald/Oscar Peterson

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 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 song

To tempt me to madness

I thought for awhile 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 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

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