Twelve O'Clock Tales

It's been raining all day here in Arkansas, and it's a bad week to be working at a flower shop. Tonight and as I was pulling into my apartments after working a twelve hour day, "Lush Life" came up on my playlist. So I parked and listened in the rain. This song has some of my favorite lyrics of all time. After the singing, when Coltrane goes into the sax, I turned it up about as loud as I could stand it and just got lost in it. I'll post the lyrics, they are worth a read. I have only recently been getting into jazz, and there's just something about it that hits a different musical "spot" than everything else, if that makes sense. I used to visit all the very gay placesThose come what may placesWhere one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of lifeTo get the feel of life...From jazz and cocktails.The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray facesWith distant gay tracesThat 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 songTo tempt me to madness!I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadnessOf 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 willWhile 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 rotWith the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..(Billy Strayhorn)Also, a short clip of Coltrane with Miles Davis to tickle your ears...