What does it matter if we're rich or we're poor? Fortune and fame they never endure Love is the thing, love is the thing What good is money if your heart isn't light? Here in your arms I'm wealthy tonight While youth has its fling, love is the thing While others fight for power We can stroll among the flowers Knowing that the best thing in life Is a thing that's free, love, for you and me And even though our castles crumble and fall We'll have the right to laugh at it all For love is still king, love is the thing While everybody fights for power We can stroll among the flowers Knowing that the best thing in life Is a thing that's free, love, for you and me Though our castles crumble and fall We'll have the right to laugh at it all For love is still king, love is the thing