How Can Love Survive? - Mary Martin

In all the famous love affairs

The lovers have to struggle

In garret rooms away upstairs

The lovers starve and snugggle

They’re famous for misfortune which

They seem tohave no fear of

While lovers who are very rich

You very seldom hear of

No little shack does he share with me

We do not flee from a mortgagee

Nary a care in the world have we

How can love survive?

He’s fond of bonds and he ows a 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 Mercedes-es!

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 millionaries with a dream are we

We’ll make our love survive…

How can I shw what I feel for him

I cannot go out and steal for him

I cannot die like Camile for him

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 all the poor have leisure!

Caught in our gold platted 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 goals are you

We’ll make our love

Survive!