[ti:Lush Life (Album Version)] [ar:Kevin Mahogany] [al:My Romance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lush Life - Kevin Mahogany [00:06.65]Written by:strayhorn [00:13.31]I used to visit all the very gay places [00:20.03] [00:21.09]Those come what may places [00:24.35] [00:25.49]Where one relaxes on the axis [00:28.03]Of the wheel of life [00:31.84]To get the feel of life [00:35.79]From jazz and cocktails [00:40.80] [00:44.19]The girls I knew had sad [00:46.15]And sullen gray faces [00:49.10] [00:50.22]With distingue traces [00:53.46] [00:54.82]If you could be there [00:56.34]You could see where [00:57.51]They'd been washed away [01:00.82]By too many through the day [01:04.21]Twelve o'clock tales [01:08.52] [01:09.68]Then you came along [01:13.52] [01:14.13]With your siren song [01:16.32]To tempt me to madness [01:19.92] [01:20.58]I thought for awhile [01:23.04]That your poignant smile [01:25.08]Was tinged with the sadness [01:28.12]Of a great love for me [01:34.22] [01:36.17]Ah yes I was wrong [01:40.57] [01:42.34]Again I was wrong [01:47.69] [01:53.29]Life is lonely again [01:59.00] [02:00.19]And only last year [02:03.09] [02:03.71]Everything seemed so sure [02:08.29] [02:10.35]Now life is awful again [02:16.21]A trough full of hearts [02:20.49]Could only be a bore [02:24.80] [02:26.49]A week in Paris [02:30.50]Could ease the bite of it [02:34.15] [02:35.12]All I care is to smile in spite of it [02:41.65] [02:43.12]I'll forget you I will [02:48.35] [02:49.76]While yet you are still [02:53.13] [02:53.82]Burning inside my brain [02:59.78] [03:00.29]Romance is mush [03:03.82]Stifling those who strive [03:08.34] [03:08.98]I'll live a lush life in some small dive [03:18.13] [03:18.65]And there I'll be [03:22.16]While I rot with the rest of those [03:29.25]Whose lives are lonely too