Lush Life - Sammy Davis Jr./Joya Sherrill
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.
I guess 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 troughful of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in paris my 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..
Lush life
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Sammy Davis Jr./Joya SherrillI don't want youBut I hate to lose youYou've got me in betweenThe devil and the deep blue sea...