Lush Life

Lush Life - Joop Thonhauser

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 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

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