"Lush Life" is a jazz standard with lyrics and music written by Billy Strayhorn from 1933 to 1938. The song's lyrics describe the author's weariness of the night life after a failed romance, wasting time with "jazz and cocktails" at "come-what-may places" and in the company of girls with "sad and sullen gray faces/distinque traces". Strauhorn was only 16 when he wrote the majority of the song, which was to become his signature composition (along with "Take the 'A' Train"). The song was recorded by Lady Gaga as a solo song from her and Tony Bennett's jazz collaborative album, Cheek to Cheek.