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'Too Many Poets'

As Rich As The Pearl (Shady O'Pale)


 

 

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We keep looking in the onyx
but there's nothing, a marble sea
why we've travelled all this way
It is still a puzzle to me
running down the hallway
to the endless plain of doubt
I look and you're no longer there
I'm the only one about

There's a stranger in the forest
and he's searching for a little space
I've been catching up with him
p'raps it's me, setting the pace
holding back the worry
in those blackened eyes of pain
I look and he's no longer there
I'm all alone once again

(Chorus)
It's plain as can be
I'm out on a limb
at the gates of good fortune
trying to get in
and if nothing else
I'm seeing the world
though I'm alone
I'm as rich as the pearl


Procol Harum concerts in 2001: index page

Manchester: Palers' Convention

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