Retrospective lyrics

I'm up on the tightwire

one side's ice and one is fire

its a circus game with you and me

I'm up on the tightrope
one side's hate and one is hope

but the tophat on my head is all you see

And the wire seems to be

the only place for me

a comedy of errors

and I'm falling

**Chorus**

Like a rubber-neck giraffe

you look into my past

well maybe you're just to blind to - see

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see
There's no one more important to me
Darlin' can't you please see through me

Woman of the country now I found you
Longing in your soft and fertile delta
And I whisper sighs to satisfy your longing
For the warm and tender shelter of my body

Cos you're mine delta lady
Yeah you're mine, be all mine
Delta lady

Please don't ask how many times I found you
Standing wet and naked in the garden
And I think of days
And the different ways I held you