Nat King Cole - Lush Life lyrics

(billy strayhorn)<br><br>I used to visit all the very gay places<br>Those come what may places<br>Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life<br>To get the feel of life...<br>From jazz and cocktails.<br><br>The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces<br>With distant gay traces<br>That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away<br>By too many through the day...<br>Twelve o'clock tales.<br><br>Then you came along with your siren of song<br>To tempt me to madness!<br>I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness<br>Of a great love for me.<br><br>Ah yes! I was wrong...<br>Again,<br>I was wrong.<br><br>Life is lonely again,<br>And only last year everything seemed so sure.<br>Now life is awful again,<br>A troughful of hearts could only be a bore.<br>A week in paris will ease the bite of it,<br>All I care is to smile in spite of it.<br><br>I'll forget you, I will<br>While yet you are still burning inside my brain.<br>Romance is mush,<br>Stifling those who strive.<br>I'll live a lush life in some small dive...<br>And there I'll be, while I rot<br>With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..