Lush Life Lyrics

The song Lush Life is performed by John Coltrane in the album named Definitive John Coltrane on Prestige & Riverside in the year 2010 .



John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra

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 distingue 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 song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for awhile 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 could 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

So 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



John Coltrane - Definitive John Coltrane on Prestige & Riverside

Aug 2010

  1. The Theme
  2. Oleo
  3. 'Round Midnight
  4. Mating Call
  5. Minor Mishap
  6. Monk's Mood
  7. Trinkle, Tinkle
  8. Straight Street
  9. While My Lady Sleeps
  10. Billie's Bounce
  11. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  12. I Love You
  13. Lush Life
  14. Russian Lullaby
  15. I Want To Talk About You
  16. Rise 'N' Shine
  17. Why Was I Born?
  18. Lover Come Back To Me
  19. Invitation
  20. Time After Time
  21. Bahia

Lush Life