Tortoise Regrets Hare - James Yorkston

She said «Answer me this Handsome Jack if your hands

Weren’t tied would you consider me wise enough to see

Off your fear of heights whether real or imagined or

Whether flight or fancy?

I’ll teach you all that this

City has taught me, I’ll bow you around this city’s

Boundaries»

Tortoise Regrets Hare, Tortoise Regrets Hare, Fox Takes

Hare

And I mentioned that I’d seen you in the paper marrying

Some fool you’d slipped a smile into the picture saying

«I am still the same infinite girl that you’ve all

Known and are there any regrets here aside my own?

I

Sleep with your songs running up my arms and curling

Around and keeping me warm»

Tortoise Regrets Hare, Tortoise Regrets Hare, Fox Takes

Hare

Hold on hold on

And I tell you don’t sell your love short in my prime I

Was a cruel and cold man but now I am older I present

Myself much warmer, anxious not to lose out on a year

Or two’s favour for the sake of my red temper and you

Pressed sea shells in the sand and they spelled out

Your cruel cruel demands

Tortoise Regrets Hare, Tortoise Regrets Hare, Fox Takes

Hare

Fox Takes Hare, Tortoise Regrets Hare