Lush Life (as sung by Ella Fitzgerald)

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Lush Life

• Recorded by Nat King Cole in 1949
• Later recorded by Natalie Cole in the 1991 album, 
  Unforgettable With Love

• Words and Music by Billy Strayhorn (/Eden Ahbez?)

I used to visit all the very gay places

Those come-what-may places

Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life –

To get the feel of life

From jazz and cocktails.

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces

With distingue traces

That used to be there — You could see where they’d been washed away

By too many through the day

Twelve o’clock tales

Then you came along with your siren song

To tempt me to madness…

I thought for a while that your poignant smile

Was tinged with the sadness…

Of a great love for me.

Ah yes, I was wrong.

Again, I was wrong.

Life is lonely again,

And only last year, everything seemed so sure.

Now life is awful again,

A trough full of hearts could only be a bore.

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it

All I care is to smile in spite of it

I’ll forget you, I will

While yet you are still

Burning inside my brain

Romance is mush

Stifling those who strive

I’ll live a lush life in some small dive

And there I’ll be, while I rot with the rest

Of those whose lives are lonely too.

 

 

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