Lush Life-billy eckstine

[ti:Lush Life] [ar:billy eckstine] [al:Billy Eckstine: The Fabulous Mister B, Centenary Tribute - His 50 Finest (1940-1961)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.06]Lush Life - billy eckstine [00:00.82] [00:03.97]I used to visit all these very gay places [00:07.39] [00:08.10]Those come what may places [00:10.38] [00:11.08]Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life [00:16.59]To get a feel of life [00:19.21] [00:19.79]From jazz and cocktails [00:25.10] [00:25.73]The girls I knew had sad and sullen grey faces [00:30.09]With distant gay traces [00:32.38] [00:33.21]That used to be there [00:34.32]You could see where they've been washed away [00:38.80]By too many through the day [00:42.22] [00:42.84]Twelve o'clock tales [00:48.23] [00:50.12]Then you came along [00:55.05]With a siren song [00:57.99]It tempts me to madness [01:04.01] [01:04.74]I thought for a while that your poignant smile [01:12.86]Was tinged with the sadness [01:17.81]Of a great love for me [01:25.68] [01:27.67]Oh yes I was wrong [01:37.50] [01:39.11]Again I was wrong [01:49.16] [01:53.83]Life is lonely again [01:59.47]And only last year everything seemed so sure [02:09.83] [02:10.56]Now life is awful again [02:16.52] [02:17.28]A trough full of hearts could never be a bore [02:28.59] [02:30.63]A week to Paris [02:34.45]At least a bite of it [02:38.29] [02:39.45]All I care is to smile in spite of it [02:47.82] [02:49.35]I'll forget you I will [02:54.32]And yet you are still [02:58.07]Burning inside my brain [03:05.36] [03:07.61]Romance is mush [03:09.96] [03:10.67]Stifling those who strive [03:14.82]I'll live a lush life in some small dive [03:24.66] [03:25.70]And then I'll be [03:29.86]Well I rock with the rest [03:35.78] [03:36.59]All those whose lives are lonely too