Released: July 15, 2013
Songwriter: Sting Rob Mathes
Producer: Sting Rob Mathes
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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?
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
It may not be the romance
That you had in mind
But you could learn to love me
Given time
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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?
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
It may not be the romance
That you had in mind
But you could learn to love me
Given time
more tracks from the album
The Last Ship
- The Last Ship
- Peggy’s Song
- Jock the Singing Welder
- Show Some Respect
- Sky Hooks and Tartan Paint
- Hadaway
- It’s Not the Same Moon
- The Last Ship (Reprise)
- So to Speak
- I Love Her But She Loves Someone Else
- What Have We Got?
- Ballad of the Great Eastern
- Practical Arrangement
- Language of Birds
- And Yet
- Practical Arrangement (Full Original Duet)
From the album
- The Last Ship (2013)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues