Rickie Lee Jones - Lush Life lyrics

(written by Billy Strahorn) I used to visit all the very gay places Those come-what-may places I used to visit all the very gay places Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life To get the feel of life From jazz and co*ktails The girls 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 thought for a while 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