How Can Love Survive?

In all the famous love affairs

The lovers have to struggle

In garret rooms way upstairs

The lovers starve and snuggle

They're famous for misfortune

Which they seem to have no fear of

While lovers who are very rich

You very seldom hear of

No little shack do you share with me

We do not flee from a mortgagee

Nary a care in the world have we

How can love survive?

You're from the bums and you own no lot

I have a plane and a diesel yacht

Plenty of nothing you haven't got

How can love survive?

No rides for us on the top of a bus

In the face of the freezing breezes

You reach your goals in your comfy old Rolls

Or in one of your Mercedeses

Far, very far off the beam are we

Quaint and bizarre as a team are we

Two millionaires with a dream are we

We're keeping romance alive

Two millionaires with a dream are we

We'll make our love survive

No little cold water flat have we

Warmed by the glow of insolvency

Up to your necks in security

How can love survive?

How can I show what I feel for you?

I cannot go out and steal for you

I cannot die like Camille for you

How can love survive?

You millionaires with financial affairs

Are too busy for simple pleasure

When you are poor, it is toujours l'amour

For l'amour of the poor have leisure

Caught in our gold-plated chains are we

Lost in our wealthy domains are we

Trapped by our capital gains are we

But we'll keep romance alive

Trapped by your capital gains are you

We'll make our love survive!