Lush Life Chords by Kurt Elling

I used to visit [Ab] all the very gay places
_ [B] _ _ Those come [Db] what may places
_ [F] _ Where [Db] one [Ebm] relaxes
On [E] the [Gbm] axis of the [E] wheel of life
[Gb] _ _ To [Eb] get the feel of [Ab] life
From _ jazz and cocktail
[Bb] _ _ The [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] girls I knew [Gb] had sad and [Bb] sullen grey [Bbm] faces
_ [A] _ With [Ab] distal gay traces
_ [Db] _ _
That used to be [Ebm] there
You could see [Gbm] where they'd been [Abm] _ washed away
[A] _
By too [Ab] many through the day
E-12, [Ab] _ _ a cocktail
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] Then you [C] came along with your siren [Fm] song
To tempt me to madness
_ _ [F] _ _
_ Thought [G] _ [Fm] for a while that your poignant smile
Was tinged with the [C] sadness of a [Bb] great [Fm] love _
[B] _ _ for _ _ me
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ebm] Yet I was wrong _ [Eb] _ again _
_ I [Cm] was [Gb] wrong _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[Ab] Life is lonely
[D] _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[D] _ And only [Bb] last year
[A] Everything seemed [E] so _ sure
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ Now [Ab] life is awful _ [Db] again _
_ [D] A trough [Db] full of hearts
[Bb] Could only [C] be [F] a whore
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ A week [Ebm] in _ [A] Paris
[Ab] _ Should [Fm] ease [Bm] _ [Em] the bite [D] of it _ _
[F] I just [C] cared _ [Am] to smile [Abm] in _ [A] spite [Ab] of _ _
_ _ _ _ I'll forget you, _ I will
[D] While yet [Bb] you are still burning [G] _ [C] inside my [Fm] _ brain
_ [D] _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [F] Romance is [Eb]
much [A] stifling [Eb] those [Ab] who strive
[Bb] _ _ [Db] _ I [Abm] will live a life like [B] in songs _ [F] or [Bb] nothing _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gbm] _ Still _ _
[Dbm] I'll be [A] while I rot
[G]
With [Ab] the rest [E] of _ [Eb] those [D] whose [G] lives _ are [Ebm] _ _ _ lonely
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