Lush Life (Live at Perkins Palace, Los Angeles, CA, 4/16/1982)

I, I used to visit all this 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

12 o'clock tales

Then someday you came along with your siren song

To tempt me to madness

I thought for a while, your poignant smile

Was tinged with the sadness of a great love for me

But I was wrong

I was wrong

Life is lonely again

And only last week, everything seemed so sure

Oh, life will be awful again

A thought full of hearts would probably be a bore, a bore

A week, I might go to Paris, will ease the bite of it

All, all I want to laugh 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

Well, I'll live a lush life in some small dive

And there I'll be, I rot with the rest

Of those whose lives are lonely too

Thank you, we gotta go now

Thank you, Michael

Call me, Reggie

Thank you very much