Lush Life - Lyrics - Barbara Dickson

Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE is a Scottish singer whose hits include "I Know Him So Well" and "January February". Dickson has placed fifteen albums in the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart.The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976.

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 men I knew had sad and sullen gray faces With distinguish 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 But you came along with your siren song To tempt me to madness I thought for a while that your poignant smile Was tinged with the sadness of great love for me But I was wrong I was wrong Life is lonely again And only last year, everything seemed so sure Now life is awful again A drawer full of hearts could only be a bore A week in Paris couse ease the bite of it All I really care is to smile in spite of it I'll forget you, I will And yet you are still Burning inside my brain Romance is mush Stifling those who strive I'll live the lush life in some small dive And there I'll be, while I drift with the rest Of those whose lives are lonely too