Lush Life::Lyrics::John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

!!!!!THIS IS NOT MY SONG!!!!!
!!!!!I DON'T CLAIM THIS MUSIC TO BE MINE!!!!!
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 theyd been washed away
By too many through the day...
Twelve oclock 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.
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 troughful of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in paris will ease the bite of it,
All I care is to smile in spite of it.
Ill forget you, I will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain.
Romance is mush,
Stifling those who strive.
Ill live a lush life in some small dive...
And there Ill be, while I rot
With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..

[@kjonesnewyork1]

I love this rendition of Lush Life... The lyrics about how things can change with too much excess was so poignant.

[@hopediamond4real]

The “Bird of Paradise” in Ann Arbor, MI, was my spot. #LushLife 🎉

[@nadezhda7433]

This video stopped short! Mr. Fetchenhauer, please restore the last lines of the song. Thank you for this. Johnny Hartman has no peer.

[@madvillain2675]

Just Beautiful.

[@jadams1834]

Love this. Could you kindly fix typo in Johnny Hartman's name in 1st frame, also playback cuts before close of final lyric. Thx!

[@DGardn100]

Very, very nice- with one little quibble. It's not "distant gay". It's "distingué".

[@TheTTTForEver]

Thanks!

[@tomculhane6648]

@@TheTTTForEver Is "distingue" French?

[@ezequielgauna9879]

​@@tomculhane6648 yes. It means distinguished

[@divvy1400yam600]

Lovely melody. Pleasant baritone voice. But the lyrics ! I refer to the meaning. Do people really get so desperate when relationships fail ? stiff upper lip chaps and chapesses. I am very pleased John Coltrane never turned up. Adding ; does he play the piano here ? I was thinking of the saxophonist.

[@gretai8057]

+divvy1400yam600 Sorry u missed the meaning of the lyrics. Only people that have met love.

[@nyshoefly]

It's distingue, not distant gay