Practical Arrangement (Full Original Duet)

[Sting]:

Am I asking for the moon?

Is it really so implausible?

That you and I could soon

Come to some kind of arrangement?

I'm not asking for the moon

I've always been a realist

When it's really nothing more

Than a simple rearrangement

With one roof above our heads

A warm house to return to

We could start with separate beds

I could sleep alone or learn to

I'm not suggesting that we'd find

Some earthly paradise forever

I mean, how often does that happen now?

The answer's probably never

But we could come to an arrangement

A practical arrangement

And you could learn to love me, given time

[Jo Lawry]:

Well, I like my independence

I get by, I'm not greedy

Do you see yourself as Galahad?

Do I really look that needy?

I brought a child up on my own

Takes me all my strength to face him

The father upped and left me

And I'm not desperate to replace him

Tell me what kind of catch

Is a struggling single mother

I respect you and I like you

But I won't accept another

Empty promise when some grey

And stormy rain cloud hangs above me

When I've heard it all a hundred times

From a man who said he loved me

But if we came to an arrangement

A practical arrangement

Then perhaps I'd learn to love you given time

[Sting]:

I'm not promising the moon

I'm not promising a rainbow

Just a practical solution

To a solitary life

I'd be a father to your boy

A shoulder you could lean on

How bad could it be

To be my wife?

With one roof above our heads

A warm house to return to

You wouldn't have to cook for me

You wouldn't have to learn to

I'm not suggesting that this proposition

Here could last forever

I've no intention of deceiving you

You're far too clever

But we could come to an arrangement

A practical arrangement

And perhaps you'd learn to love me given time

[Sting & Jo Lawry]:

It may not be the romance that you had in mind

[Sting]:

But you could learn to love me

Given time