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 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 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 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