Lush Life

I used to visit all the very gay places

Those come-what-may places

Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheels of life

To get the feel of life

From jazz and cocktails

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces

With beast in caged races

If you could 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

And 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

Would only be a bore

A week in Paris

Would 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 much

Startling those who strive

I will live a lush life

In some small dive

And there I will be

While I rot with the rest

Of those whose lives are lonely too