[Lyric] This Kind of a Girl (Original Broadway Cast of The Gay Life)

[LIESL, spoken]
I've always wanted to know about girls like that. 

[ANATOL, spoken]
What do you want to know?

[LIESL, spoken]
Everything. Where she lives, what she wears, what she says. 

[ANATOL]
You ask me
How does she live?
How does she live?
She has a modest little flat

With no exotic perfumes
Haunting her rooms
She doesn't quite go in for that

Leopard skins are not for her
They'd be out of character
She goes in for plain design
Her taste is like yours
Her taste is like mine
You ask me
How does she dress?
With some finesse
She copies patterns from Paris

No matter what she may wear
A feminine charm is there

You see, what kind of a girl
This kind of a girl can be

[LIESL, spoken]
But she sounds like... like--

[ANATOL, spoken]
Like a girl you might know. And she is! Except... 

[LIESL, spoken]
Except what?

[ANATOL, spoken]
Oh, it's not important. 

[LIESL, spoken]
Oh, but it is! Please!
[ANATOL, spoken]
Except, in her world... a girl is not afraid to give love. I'm sorry, the truth is sometimes indelicate. 

[LIESL]
Is she waiting there for you?
Listening on the stair for you?
Does a smile light up her face?
She runs to you and you embrace

[LIESL, spoken]
"My darling"--is that what she says?

[ANATOL, spoken]
Something like that. 

[LIESL]
You may go out to a play
Or the ballet

[ANATOL]
She'd rather stay at home with me

[LIESL]
She's there whenever you call
And you are all her all
[ANATOL, spoken]
More or less. 

[LIESL]
I see what kind of a girl
This kind of a girl can be