text: 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 distingué traces
  That used to be there you could see where
  Theyd been washed away
  By too many through the day
  Twelve oclocktails
  Then you came along with your sirens song
  To tempt me to madness
  I thought for a while that your pointed 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 assured
  Now life is awful again
  And the thoughtful of heart
  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
  And 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