Lush Life

	Lyrics：Billy Strayhorn Music：Billy Strayhorn
	I used to visit 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
	All the men I knew had sad and
	sullen gray faces
	with distingue 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 knew all the while
	that your poignant smile
	was tinged with the sadness of a
	great love for me
	oh, yes I was wrong
	again I was wrong
	Now life is lonely again
	and only last year everything
	seemed so sure
	now life is awful again
	a troughful of hearts would only
	be a bore
	a week in Paris will ease the bite
	of it
	but all I really 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
	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

	Lyrics: Billy Strayhorn Music: Billy Strayhorn
	I used to visit 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
	All the men I knew had sad and
	sullen gray faces
	with distingue 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 knew all the while
	that your poignant smile
	was tinged with the sadness of a
	great love for me
	oh, yes I was wrong
	again I was wrong
	Now life is lonely again
	and only last year everything
	seemed so sure
	now life is awful again
	a troughful of hearts would only
	be a bore
	a week in Paris will ease the bite
	of it
	but all I really 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
	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