Lush Life-Johnny Hartman

[ti:Lush Life] [ar:Johnny Hartman] [al:Boston Concert 1976] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.16]Lush Life - Johnny Hartman [00:03.30] [01:13.29]I used to visit all the very gay places [01:18.54] [01:21.09]Those come what may places [01:23.17] [01:25.49]Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life [01:30.15] [01:32.56]To get the feel of life from jazz and cocktails [01:40.68] [01:43.24]The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces [01:48.48] [01:50.20]With distingue traces that used to be there [01:55.10]You could see where they'd been washed away [01:59.27] [02:00.63]By too many through the day twelve o'clock tales [02:09.16] [02:12.64]Then you came along with your siren song [02:16.25] [02:17.00]To tempt me to madness [02:19.00] [02:21.53]I thought for awhile that your poignant smile [02:27.51] [02:28.25]Was tinged with the sadness of a great love for me [02:37.03] [02:39.54]Ah yes I was wrong [02:45.09] [02:47.29]Again I was wrong [03:02.01] [03:08.23]Life is lonely again and only last year [03:18.14] [03:20.30]Everything seemed so sure [03:22.97] [03:27.30]Now life is awful again [03:32.86] [03:34.87]A trough full of hearts could only be a bore [03:42.43] [03:46.17]A week in Paris my ease the bite of it [03:53.77] [03:56.96]But all I care is to smile in spite of it [04:03.39] [04:06.07]'Cause I'll forget you I will while yet you are still [04:15.98] [04:17.92]Burning inside my brain romance is mush [04:27.45] [04:29.15]Stifling those who strive [04:31.50] [04:33.79]So I'll live a lush life in some small dive [04:42.61] [04:43.86]And there I'll be [04:45.24] [04:46.85]While I rot with the rest of those [04:54.34] [04:55.00]Whose lives are lonely too