Isn't It A Pity? - Stacey Kent/Colin Oxley/David Newton/Jasper Kviberg/Jim Tomlinson/Simon Thorpe

Why did I wander

Here and there and yonder

Wasting precious time

For no reason or rhyme

Isn't it a pity

Isn't it a crime

My journeys ended

Everything is splendid

Meeting you today

Has given me

A wonderful idea

Here I stay

It's a funny thing

I look at you

I get a thrill

I never knew

Isn't it a pity

We never met before

Here we are at last

It's like a dream

The two of us

A perfect team

Isn't it a pity

We never met before

Imagine all the lonely years we wasted

You with the neighbours

I at silly labours

What joys untasted

You reading Heine

Me somewhere in China

Let's forget the past let's both agree

That I'm for you and you're for me

And it's such a pity

We never never met before

Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted

Fishing for salmon losing at backgammon

What joys untasted

My nights were sour spent with Schopenhauer

Let's forget the past let's both agree

That I'm for you and you're for me

And it's such a pity

We never never met before