A LADY LOVES
From the film "I Love Melvin" (1953)
(Josef Myrow / Mack Gordon)
Debbie Reynolds & Male Chorus - 1953


A lady loves expensive clothes
and pretty jewels and furs and french chapeaus (In other words, a lady is materialistic.)
she loves her lingerie in black
it suits her zodiac (Stupid enough to believe in astrology, AND colour coordinate to it, too)

Loves a penthouse where she'll be content to stay (alone, looks like)
finds little gifts on her breakfast tray (or money on the dresser)
but now and then pack and sail away 
for a simple Riveria holiday (one way trip)

a lady loves beaucoup l'amour
but first of all she loves to be secure (Jails are secure)
and she adores the subtle phrase
that it's the man who pays (A lady's cheap, too)

yet there is one vital thought she will place above
all the things I mention of
that most of all a lady loves to love
(Thank God. For love, a woman will give up all of the above expensive furs, penthouse, etc.)

(bridge)

Male chorus:
A lady loves her phobias 
She has complexities she will insist
(The first serious thing mentioned in this song)

Lady:
It gives her things to talk about with her psychiatrist
(at $100 an hour, too- and guess who pays? See above.)

Male Chorus:
Incidentally when she drops her glove
Gentlemen know what she's thinking of
(Yes: "Damn, I dropped my glove!)

Lady:
That most of all a lady loves to love

Male Chorus:
And what is more a lady loves to live

Lady:
And what is more lady lives to love
(Nice word play. It's a variation on the old "convert one word to another in x number of moves, changing one letter at a time. Look, they converted "love" to "live" in just one move!)