[MAL]
Can't we talk about anything else but love?

[GOMEZ, spoken]
Love that launched a thousand ships

[MAL]
Please! Let's talk about anything else but love

[GOMEZ, spoken]
Love that causes war and famine

[MAL]
Can't we speak about real estate?

[GOMEZ, spoken]
Love of wife

[MAL]
Watergate?

[GOMEZ, spoken]
Love of children!

[MAL]
Seasonal fluctuations in the prime interest rate?
[GOMEZ, spoken]
Love of chocolate, you must love chocolate, everybody loves chocolate, say you do, say it

[MAL]
Can't we talk about anything else but

[GOMEZ]
Love is elation
Like an oration
Love speaks to us in tongues
Natural as teething
Simple as breathing
Air in the love-starved lungs
Love looks at us and sighs

[MAL]
That's all a pack of lies
Love is a fiction like an affliction
Love is an ancient curse
Posing contentment
Causing resentment
Fulfilment in reverse
Love is a dismal thing

[GOMEZ]
Mal! Why should we fight, let's sing!
(spoken)
And you know the only thing better than singing?
[MAL, spoken]
What?

[GOMEZ, spoken]
Singing and dancing!
(sung)
Let's not talk about anything else but love
Worth repeating
Let's not talk about anything else but love

[MAL, spoken]
Why?

[GOMEZ]
Life is fleeting and pleasures come
Pleasures go
Love can come and go in one throw
Let's not talk about anything else but love
But love
But love

[FESTER, spoken]
Did I just hear the word love?

[GOMEZ]
Ahah!
[FESTER]
Let's not talk about anything else but love

[MAL]
Of all the scams I'd ever heard
Love's the one that's most absurd

[FESTER]
Let's not talk about anything else but love

[MAL]
And look what good is done
Not for me
Not my son

[FESTER]
Be patient
And soon the way will be clear

[GOMEZ]
Focus your fear

[FESTER]
And troubles all will disappear

[GOMEZ]
Let's not talk about anything else but love

[MAL]
It's hard for me to show you see, my mother didn't know you see

[GOMEZ & (FESTER)]
Let's not talk about anything else but love (Nothing better)

[MAL]
Afraid of a touch, I don't like it so much

[GOMEZ & FESTER]
Hold on tight
Say goodnight
But don't dream of starting a fight
Let's not talk about anything else but love
Since the dawn of man began
Everyone has had a plan
From Anchorage to Afghanistan

[FESTER, spoken]
Immortalized by Paul Cezanne

[GOMEZ & FESTER]
Just like an orangutan
You've a short attention span
So we'll do the best we can
By golly and bipartisan
Let's not talk about anything old
Please don't leave us out in the cold
Let's not talk about anything else but love

[ALL]
But love
But love