Love Is A Necessary Evil - Blossom Dearie

Love is a necessary evil

A very contrary hereditary evil

Can’t live with it, can’t live without it

Can’t do a doggone thing about it

You want the pleasure, you’ve got to take the pain

Cause love is a necessary evil

An evolutionary, interplanetary evil

Your heart’s pounding, you get excited

Play with a flame and you’re ignited,

Time out for crying here comes a load of rain

Who wants it?

That thrill of a warm embrace

Who needs it

No one but the whole human race

Cause love is a necessary evil

A very arbitrary extraordinary evil

Natural things that women and men do

Can’t be changed

There’s nothin' you can do

Love is a necessary evil

Love is a necessary evil

A very arbitrary extraordinary evil

Natural things that women and men do

Can’t be changed

There’s nothin' you can do

Love is a necessary evil

Since time began the wisest of men have found

This evil makes the world go round