Lush Life

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I used to visit all the very gay places
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Those come what may places
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Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
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To   get   the feel of life from jazz and cocktails
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The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
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With distant gay traces 
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That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away
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By   too   many through the day twelve o'clock tales
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Then you came along with your siren of song to tempt me to madness
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I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
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Of a great love for   me
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Ah yes!   I   was wrong again, I was wrong
Melody
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Life is lonely again, and only last year everything seemed so sure
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Now life is awful again, a trough full of hearts could only be a bore
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A week in Paris could ease the bite of it, all I care is to smile in spite of it
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I'll forget you, I will, while yet you are still  burning inside my brain
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Romance is mush,   stifling those who strive
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So I'll live a lush life in some small dive
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And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest 
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Of those whose lives are lonely,    too