Too Much Between Us

By Procol Harum

On A Salty Dog

Released on June 1969

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[Verse 1]

There's you, you're sleeping over there

Whilst me I'm sitting here

With so much sea between us

I can't make it much more clear


[Pre-Chorus 1]

There'll be no time for crying

We won't make it more than six

I could change my plea to guilty

But I don't think it would stick


[Chorus 1]

Still those other ratings far too easy to despise

You've said so much in silence now I truly am disguised


[Mallet percussion interlude]


[Verse 2]

Let him who fears his heart alone

Stand up and make a speech

For him perhaps an emperor's throne

If he could only speak


[Pre-Chorus 2]

Far too few and far to follow

For shame I'll heed the cry

Be with me when I need a drink

Be with me when I die


[Chorus 2]

Still those other ratings far too easy to despise

You've said so much in silence now indeed I am disguised


[Outro: Organ solo]