Lush Life
by,
Billy Strayhorn
arr. Akua Dixon and
Andromeda Turre
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 12 o`clock tales
Then you came along with you siren song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while that your poignant smile
Was tinged with a sadness of a great love for me
I guess 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 troughful 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
