Verse
[Db6] [Cb7] [Dbmaj7] [Cb7]
I used to visit all the very gay places
[Cb7] [Dbmaj7] [Cb7]
Those come-what-may places
[Cb7] [Dbmaj7] [Ebmin7] [Emaj7]
Where one relaxes on the axis
[Gbmin7] [Abmin7] [D7]
Of the wheel of life
[D7] [Db6] [D7]
To get the feel of life
[D7] [Dbmaj7] [D7(b5)]
From jazz and cocktails
[Db6] [Cb7] [Dbmaj7] [Cb7]
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
[Cb7] [Dbmaj7] [Cb7]
With distingué traces
[Cb7] [Dbmaj7]
That used to be there
[Ebmin7] [Emaj7]
You could see where
[Gbmin7] [Abmin7] [D7]
They'd been washed away
[D7] [Db6] [D7]
By too many through the day
[D7] [Dbmaj7] Gmin7b5
Twelve o'clock tales
[C7] [Fmin] [Fmin6]
Then you came along
[Fmin7] [Fmin6]
With your siren song
[Fmin] [Gmin7] [Gb7b5]
To tempt me to madness
[Fmin] [Fmin6]
I thought for awhile
[Fmin7] [Fmin6]
That your poignant smile
[Fmin] [Edim7]
Was tinged with the sadness
[Ebmin7] [Ab7] [B7b5]
Of a great love for me
[Bb7] [Ebmin7] [A7b5]
Ah, yes, I was wrong
[A7b5] [Ebmin7] [Ab7]
Again, I was wrong
[Db6] [D7] [Db6]
Life is lonely again
[D7] [Db6] [C7b5] [B7] [Emaj7] [Eb7#5]
And only last year everything seemed so sure
[D7] Dbb6 [D7] [Db6]
Now life is awful again
[D7] [Db6] Db7C7 [Fmaj7] [Eb7]
A troughful of hearts could only be a bore
[Ab6] [Eb7#9] [Ab6] [Emin7] [A7]
A week in Paris could ease the bite of it
[D6] [Dmin7] [G7] [C6] [B7] [Bb7] [A7] [Ab7]
All I care is to smile in spite of it
[Db6] [D7] [Db6]
I'll forget you I will
[D7] [Db6]
While yet you are still
[C7b5] [B7] [Bb7]
Burning inside my brain
[Ebmin7] [Gbmin7]
Romance is mush
[Cb7] [A7#5] [Ab7]
Stifling those who strive
[Dbmaj7] [Dbmin7] [Gb7]
I'll live a lush life
[Cbmaj7] [Fmin7] [Bb7]
In some small dive
[Bb7] [Ebmin7] [Gbmin7]
And there I'll be
[Cb7] [A7#5] [Ab7]
While I rot with the rest
[Emaj7] [Eb6] [Dmaj7] [G7] [Ebmin7] [D7] [Dbmaj7]
Of those whose lives are lone- ly, too
Lush life
