Nat King Cole - Lush Life (1993) by Nat King Cole (보컬) on maniadb.com

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 awayBy 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..

(Nacio H. Brown, Gus Kahn)


You
Stepped out of a dream,
You are too wonderful
To be what you seem.


Could there be eyes like yours?
Could there be lips like yours?
Could there be smiles like yours,
Honest and truly?


You
Stepped out of a cloud,
I want to take you away
Away from the crowd,
And have you all to myself,
Alone and apart.
Out of a dream
Safe into my heart.


~interlude~


You
Stepped out of a cloud,
I want to take you away
Away from the crowd,
And have you all to myself,
Alone and apart.
Out of a dream,
Safe into my heart...
Wa-dee-la-la
Out of a dream!

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 26 in 1952
-words and music by marcia neal, philip f. broughton, bob merrill, and hughie prince

Funny, how I've stopped loving you
I can pass you on the street and my heart don't skip a beat
Not much, so much my eyes wanna cry
Funny, how I've stopped loving you
I can listen to your name and it doesn't start a flame
Not much, so much my heart wants to die

Now that you're standing here, darling, I don't shed a tear
This is just the rain in my eyes

And if I have proved to you everything I say is true
Please help me believe my own lies

Funny, how I've stopped loving you
And it's funny I don't miss all the heaven in your kiss
Your touch, no I don't love you, not much

Funny, how I've stopped loving you
And it's funny I don't miss all the heaven in your kiss
Your touch, no I don't love you, not much

No I don't love you, not much

That's my girl
Take a look at her, she belongs to me
Yes, that's my girl
Hands off, don't touch

She looks just like an angel
But she's human all the same
So I'm not takin' chances
I won't tell her address or even her name

'Cause that's my girl
I'm addin' her to my family
And I love that girl
And everything's fine

So until the day that she says yes
Keep my fingers crossed
'Cause that's my girl
And she's gonna stay mine

That's my girl, you hear me
I'm addin' her to my family
And I love that girl
And everything's fine

So until the day that she says yes
Keep my fingers crossed
'Cause that's my girl
And she's gonna stay mine

She's all mine, every curvy line
And even those dark brown curls
Now lay off, that's my girl

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 24 in 1951
-Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by Hugh Williams
-previously charted in 1935 by Bing Crosby (#1), Guy Lombardo (also # !),
-Mantovani (#3), and Jack Jackson (# 13)
-previously charted in 1936 by Louis Armstrong (#15)
-subsequently charted by Tab Hunter in 1957 (#57), The Platters in 1960 (#36)
-and by Fats Domino in 1963 (#35).


{Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea}
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me
{She sailed at the dawning, all day I've been blue}
Red sails in the sunset, I'm trusting in you

Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
We marry tomorrow
And she goes sailing no more

{Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea}
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me

<instrumental interlude>

Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
We marry tomorrow
And she goes sailing no more

{Red sails in the sunset}
Way out on the sea (ooh-wee-ooh, wee-ooh)
Oh, carry my loved one
{Home safely to me}

{bracketed words are sung by Nat in unison with background singers}
(words in parentheses are sung by background singers only)