Love And Regret

Cold dawn won’t comfort you

Cold coffee won’t see you through

Cold sheets won’t heal your heart

Your frozen fingers are your name so tart

I know so rarely that things come your way

Your ways are tender and your hats are straight

But your mind’s not living the way ours are set

Your heart is open to love and regret

Reason that as they passed you by

You wished them well and sat and cried

For stones and promises a wedding size

You know the times that you’ve lived and died

Those sailors come by and spend time ashore

Their thoughts are ordered cos yours have been sawed

Your mind’s not living the way ours are set

Your heart is open to love and regret

Outside in the morning air

I hear the soundtrack of the blues heart player

He touches feelings as he don’t arouse

Knocks me back to that shuttered house

Take me back when they’re all out

Take me back to that shuttered house

I know so rarely that things come your way

Your ways are tender and your hats are straight

But your mind’s not living the way ours are set

Your heart is open to love and regret

Love and regret

Love and regret

Ooh, love and regret

Love and regret

Ooh, love and regret