Lush Life-Nat King Cole

[00:00.570]I used to visit all the very gay places [00:14.058]Those come what may places [00:16.282]Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life [00:20.150]To get the feel of life [00:21.996]From jazz and cocktails [00:25.346]The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces [00:33.986]With distingué traces [00:36.098]That used to be there, you could see where they'd been washed away [00:40.641]By too many through the day: Twelve o'clock tales [00:46.441]Then you came along with your siren of song [00:55.233]To tempt me to madness [00:59.402]I thought for a while that your poignant smile [01:04.010]Was tinged with the sadness of a great love for me [01:13.777]Ah yes, I was wrong [01:18.569]Again,I was wrong [01:27.937]Life is lonely again [01:37.681]And only last year [01:40.401]Everything seemed so sure [01:45.937]Now life is awful again [01:51.241]A troughful of hearts [01:54.361]Could only be a bore [02:00.233]A week in Paris will ease the bite of it [02:08.029]All I care is to smile in spite of it [02:17.248]I'll forget you, I will [02:22.721]While yet you are still [02:26.242]Burning inside my brain [02:31.867]Romance is mush [02:35.256]Stifling those who strive [02:40.152]I'll live a lush life [02:43.376]In some small dive [02:48.096]And there I'll be [02:52.573]While I rot [02:54.728]With the rest of those [03:00.557]Whose lives are lonely, too