LUSH LIFE - (WITH HORACE OTT & HIS ORCHESTRA)-Joe Williams

[ti:LUSH LIFE - (WITH HORACE OTT & HIS ORCHESTRA)] [ar:Joe Williams] [al:The Best Of Joe Williams: The Roulette, Solid State And Blue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]LUSH LIFE - (WITH HORACE OTT & HIS ORCHESTRA) - Joe Williams [00:32.53]I used to visit all the very gay places [00:35.75] [00:37.01]Those come what may places [00:38.59] [00:39.83]Where one relaxes on [00:41.94]The axis of the wheel of life [00:43.93] [00:44.62]To get the feel of life from [00:46.96] [00:48.16]Jazz and cocktails [00:50.14] [00:57.44]The girls I knew had sad and [00:59.62]Sullen gray faces [01:00.40] [01:01.45]With distingue traces that [01:02.95] [01:04.05]Used to be there [01:04.92] [01:05.61]You could see where they'd [01:06.74]Been washed away [01:07.86] [01:08.82]By too many through the day twelve o'clock tales [01:14.21] [01:25.09]Then you came along with [01:27.96]Your siren song [01:28.67] [01:29.41]To tempt me to madness [01:31.19] [01:36.86]I thought for awhile that your [01:40.41]Poignant smile [01:41.00] [01:42.13]Was tinged with the sadness [01:43.82] [01:44.83]Of a great love for me [01:46.89] [01:53.16]Ah yes I was wrong [01:55.12] [02:01.91]Again I was wrong [02:08.47] [02:13.78]Life is lonely again and only last year [02:23.61] [02:24.98]Everything seemed so sure [02:28.43] [02:31.74]Now life is awful again [02:35.36] [02:37.86]A trough full of hearts [02:39.50] [02:40.78]Could only be a bore [02:45.23] [02:47.09]A week in Paris could [02:53.22]Ease the bite of it [02:55.05] [02:55.72]All I care is to smile in spite of it [03:02.81] [03:06.43]I'll forget you I will while [03:09.73] [03:10.73]Yet you are still [03:14.67]Burning inside my brain [03:22.84]Romance is mush [03:24.21] [03:25.67]Stifling those who strive [03:28.53] [03:29.89]I'll live a lush life in some small dive [03:37.04] [03:37.77]And there I'll be [03:41.19]While I rot with the rest of those [03:50.63] [03:51.70]Whose lives are lonely too