Lush Life-Beverley Staunton

[ti:Lush Life] [ar:Beverley Staunton] [al:Real Divas - Torch Light Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lush Life - Beverley Staunton [00:00.22]I used to visit all the very gay places [00:04.72] [00:05.55]Those come what may places [00:07.60] [00:08.26]Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life [00:13.49] [00:14.57]To get the feel of life from jazz and cocktails [00:21.30] [00:21.83]The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces [00:26.26] [00:26.86]With distant gay traces [00:29.07] [00:29.80]That used to be there you could see [00:32.55]Where they'd been washed away [00:35.82]By too many through the day [00:39.17]Twelve o'clock tales [00:43.32]Then you came along with your siren song [00:48.52]To tempt me to madness [00:53.55]I thought for a while that your poignant smile [00:58.74]Was tinged with the sadness [01:03.42] [01:04.10]Of a great love for me [01:10.37]Ah yes I was wrong [01:15.52]Again I was wrong [01:24.45] [01:26.37]Life is lonely again [01:31.04] [01:31.94]And only last year everything seemed so sure [01:39.76] [01:41.05]Now life is awful again [01:46.73] [01:47.64]A troughful of hearts could only be a bore [01:56.10] [01:58.03]A week in Paris will ease the bite of it [02:05.30] [02:05.95]All I care is to smile in spite of it [02:15.21] [02:16.22]I'll forget you I will [02:20.84] [02:22.09]While yet you are still burning inside my brain [02:31.75]Romance is mush stifling those who strive [02:40.27]I'll live a lush life in some small dive [02:49.98] [02:51.08]And there I'll be while I rot [02:57.07] [02:57.71]With the rest of those whose lives are lonely too