How Can Love Survive

Max
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

Elsa
No little shack do you share with me
We do not flee from a mortgagee
Nary a care in the world have we

Max
How can love survive?

Elsa
You're fond of bonds and you own a lot
I have a plane and a diesel yacht

Max
Plenty of nothing you haven't got!

Both
How can love survive?

Elsa
No rides for us on the top of a bus in the face of the freezing breezes

Max
You reach your goals in your comfy old Rolls or in one of your Mercedeses!

Elsa
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

Max
Up to your necks in security
How can love survive?

Elsa
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?

Max
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!

Elsa
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

Max
Trapped by your capital gains are you

Elsa
We'll make our love survive!

No Way to Stop It

Elsa
You dear attractive dewy-eyed idealist
Today you have to learn to be a realist

Max
You may be bent on doing deeds of derring-do
But up against a shark, what can a herring do?

Elsa
Be wise, compromise!

The Captain
Compromise and be wise!

Elsa
Let them think you're on their side, be noncommitical

The Captain
I will not bow my head to the men I despise

Max
You won't have to bow your head, just stoop a little

Elsa
Why not learn to put your faith and your reliance
On an obvious and simple fact of science?
A crazy planet full of crazy people
Is somersaulting all around the sky
And ev'rytime it turns another somersault
Another day goes by!
And there's no way to stop it, no there's no way to stop it
No, you can't stop it even if you try
So I'm not going to worry, no I'm not going to worry
Ev'ry time I see another day go by

Max
While somersaulting at a cock-eyed angle
We make a cock-eyed circle 'round the sun
And when we circle back to where we started from
Another year has run
And there's no way to stop it, no there's no way to stop it
If the earth wants to roll around the sun!
You're a fool if you worry, you're a fool if you worry
Over anything but little Number One!

The Captain
That's you!

Elsa
That's I

Max
And I

The Captain
And me! That all absorbing character!

Elsa
That fascinating creature!

Max
That superspecial feature...

All
Me!

The Captain
So ev'ry star and ev'ry whirling planet, and ev'ry constellation in the sky
Revolve around the centre of the universe, a lovely thing called I!

Max and Elsa
And there's no way to stop it, no there's no way to stop it
And I know though I cannot tell you why

The Captain (spoken)
That's charming

Max and Elsa
That as long as I'm living

All
Just as long as I'm living there'll be nothing else as wonderful as I!

Elsa
Nothing else as wonderful as I

An Ordinary Couple

Maria
An ordinary couple, is all we'll ever be
For all I want of living is to keep you close to me
To laugh and weep together while time goes on its flight
To kiss you ev'ry morning and to kiss you ev'ry night
We'll meet our daily problems and rest when day is done
Our arms around each other in the fading sun
An ordinary couple across the years we'll ride
Our arms around each other and our children by our side...
Our arms around each other

The Captain
An ordinary couple, that's all we'll ever be
For all I want of living is to keep you close to me
To laugh and weep together while time goes on its flight
To kiss you ev'ry morning and to kiss you ev'ry night

Maria
We'll meet our daily problems and rest when day is done
Our arms around each other in the fading sun

Together
An ordinary couple, across the years we'll ride
Our arms around each other and our children by our side....
Our arms around each other!