How Can Love Survive?

How Can Love Survive? - Olive Gilbert

In all the famous love affairs

The lovers have to struggle

In garret rooms away 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 fond of bonds

And you own 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 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 Camile 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 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 our capital gains are we

We'll make our love survive