Lush Life-Russell Malone

[ti:Lush Life] [ar:Russell Malone] [al:Billy Strayhorn - Lush Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lush Life - Russell Malone [00:28.55]I used to visit all the very gay places [00:33.86] [00:36.98]Those come what may places [00:39.12] [00:41.94]Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life [00:48.91] [00:50.54]To get the feel of life from jazz and cocktails [00:57.67] [01:01.84]The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces [01:06.92] [01:09.57]With distingue traces that used to be there [01:16.50]You could see where they'd been washed away [01:20.34] [01:21.80]By too many through the day twelve o'clock tales [01:30.01] [01:33.41]Then you came along with your siren song [01:39.11] [01:40.70]To tempt me to madness [01:43.22] [01:48.06]I thought for awhile that your poignant smile [01:53.71] [01:54.86]Was tinged with the sadness of a great love for me [02:04.92] [02:08.41]Ah yes I was wrong [02:13.32] [02:17.13]Again I was wrong [02:20.31] [02:27.14]Life is lonely again and only last year [02:36.69] [02:37.96]Everything seemed so sure [02:42.37] [02:44.87]Now life is awful again [02:51.79] [02:53.73]A trough full of hearts could only be a bore [03:01.62] [03:07.07]A week in Paris could ease the bite of it [03:16.70] [03:18.02]All I care is to smile in spite of it [03:27.46] [03:30.06]I'll forget you I will while yet you are still [03:41.11] [03:42.02]Burning inside my brain romance is mush [03:55.25] [03:56.09]Stifling those who strive [03:59.73] [04:02.56]I'll live a lush life in some small dive [04:11.13] [04:14.80]And there I'll be [04:18.16] [04:19.95]While I rot with the rest of those [04:27.54] [04:28.73]Whose lives are lonely too