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I used to visit all the very gay places, Those come what may places

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Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life

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To get the feel of life from jazz and cocktails

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The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces 

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with distingue traces

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That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away

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By too many through the day twelve o' clock tales

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Then you came along with your siren song to tempt me to madness

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I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness

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Of a great love for me

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I guess, I was wrong, again I was wrong

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Life is lonely again

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And only last year everything seemed so sure

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Now life is awful again

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A trough full of hearts could only be a bore

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A week in Paris could ease the bite of it

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All I care is to smile in spite of it

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I'll forget you I will, while yet you are still

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Burning inside my brain

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Romance is mush, stifling those who strive

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I'll live a lush life in some small dive

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And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest 

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of those whose lives are lonely, too