Carmen McRae - Lush Life Lyrics

Lyrics Lush Life - Carmen McRae



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 distant gay 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 of 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



Writer(s): Strayhorn Billy


Carmen McRae - CABU Jazz Masters - Une anthologie 1954-1956
Album CABU Jazz Masters - Une anthologie 1954-1956
date of release
12-11-2007

1 Suppertime
2 Easy to Love
3 If I'm Lucky (I'll Be the One)
4 Old Devil Moon
5 Tip Toe Gently
6 You Made Me Care
7 The Last Time for Love
8 Too Much in Love to Care
9 Misery
10 A Fine Romance
11 I Go for You
12 Something to Live For
13 Just One of Those Things
14 Sometimes I'm Happy
15 Love Is Here to Stay
16 I Can't Get Started
17 This Will Make You Laugh
18 My One and Only Love
19 I'll Remember April
20 Yardbird Suite
21 You Took Advantage of Me
22 Come Down to Earth, Mr. Smith
23 My Future Just Passed
24 If You'd Stay the Way I Dream About You
25 Speak Low
26 But Beautiful
27 I Guess I'll Dress Up for the Blues
28 Yesterdays
29 Last Night When We Were Young
30 Midnight Sun
31 Good Morning Heartache
32 Star Eyes
33 I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?
34 We'll Be Together Again
35 A Ghost of a Chance
36 Blue Moon
37 I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
38 I Was Doing All Right
39 Nowhere
40 My Foolish Heart
41 Until the Real Thing Comes Along
42 Lush Life
43 Laughing Boy
44 Summer Is Gone
45 Lilacs In The Rain
46 Even If It Breaks My Heart
47 All This Could Lead To Love
48 Skyliner




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