How Can Love Survive?

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
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 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, all 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