Lush Life
[Lady Gaga:]I used to visit all the very gay placesThose come what may placesWhere one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of lifeTo get the feel of lifeFrom jazz and cocktails
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray facesWith distingué tracesThat used to be there you could see where they'd been washed awayBy too many through the dayTwelve o'clock tales
Then you came along with your siren songTo tempt me to madnessI thought for a while that your poignant smileWas tinged with the sadnessOf a great love for me
Ah, yes. I was wrongAgain,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 willWhile yet you are still burning inside my brain
Romance is mush,Stifling those who striveI'll live a lush life in some small dive
And there I'll be, while I rotWith the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too