Lush Life

Lush Life - billy eckstine

I used to visit all these very gay places

Those come what may places

Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life

To get a feel of life

From jazz and cocktails

The girls i knew had sad and sullen grey faces

With distant gay traces

That used to be there

You could see where they've been washed away

By too many through the day

Twelve o'clock tales

Then you came along

With a siren song

It tempts me to madness

I thought for a while that your poignant smile

Was tinged with the sadness

Of a great love for me

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 never be a bore

A week to paris

At least a 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 mush

Stifling those who strive

Well i'll live a lush life in some small dive

And then i'll be

Well i rock with the rest

All those whose lives are lonely too