(billy strayhorn)

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 they'd been washed away
By too many through the day...
Twelve o'clock 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.

I'll forget you, I will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain.
Romance is mush,
Stifling those who strive.
I'll live a lush life in some small dive...
And there I'll be, while I rot
With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..

• A Beautiful Friendship
• A Blossom Fell
• A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet
• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
• A Thousand Thoughts of You
• All for You
• Almost Like Being in Love
• An Affair to Remember
• Answer Me My Love
• Autumn Leaves
• Avalon
• Azure-te
• Baby Baby, All The Time
• Ballad of Cat Ballou
• Ballerina
• Because You're Mine
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• But Beautiful
• Calypso Blues
• Chant of The Blues
• Come to Baby, Do
• Dance, Ballerina, Dance
• Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
• Dear Lonely Hearts
• Dinner for One Please, James
• Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
• Don't Blame Me
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• Faith Can Move Mountains
• For All We Know
• For Sentimental Reasons
• Forgive My Heart
• Funny
• Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
• He Who Hesitates
• I Don't Want to See Tomorrow
• I Just Can't See for Lookin'
• I Keep Goin' Back to Joe's
• I Love Paris
• I Remember You
• I Should Care
• I Was a Little Too Lonely
• I'm a Shy Guy
• I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself a Letter
• If I Give My Heart to You
• If I May
• If Love Ain't There
• If You Can't Smile & Say Yes
• Impossible
• In Other Words
• Is It Better to Have Loved & Lost
• It Happens to Be Me
• It's Only a Paper Moon
• Just You, Just Me
• L-o-v-e
• Laughing on The Outside
• Let There Be Love
• Let's Fall in Love
• Looking Back
• Lost April
• Love Letters
• Lush Life
• Magnificent Obsession
• Meet Me at No Special Place
• Miss Otis Regrets
• Mona Lisa
• More
• My Baby Just Cares for Me
• My Personal Possession
• Nature Boy
• Night Lights
• No, I Don't Want Her
• Non Dimenticar
• On The Street Where You Live
• Once in a While
• Orange Colored Sky
• Our Love is Here to Stay
• Pick Yourself Up
• Poinciana
• Pretend
• Ramblin' Rose
• Red Sails in The Sunset
• Road to Nowhere
• Route 66
• Say It Isn't So
• Smile
• Someone to Tell It To
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Somewhere Along The Way
• Stardust
• Stay as Sweet as You Are
• Straighten up & Fly Right
• Sweet Lorraine
• Take a Fool's Advice
• Tenderly
• That Sunday That Summer
• That's All
• That's All There Is
• That's All There is to That
• The Christmas Song
• The Frim Fram Sauce
• The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
• The More I See You
• The Party's Over
• The Rules of The Road
• The Sand & The Sea
• The Very Thought of You
• There Goes My Heart
• There Will Never Be Another You
• There's a Lull in My Life
• These Foolish Things
• This Can't Be Love
• Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer
• Thou Swell
• To Whom It May Concern
• Too Young
• Unforgettable
• Walkin' My Baby Back Home
• Wee Baby Blues
• What'll I Do
• When I Fall in Love
• Where Can I Go Without You?
• Where Did Everyone Go?
• Who's Next in Line?
• Wild is Love
• With You on My Mind
• You Call It Madness