Too much on your plate

Barclay James Harvest · All Is Safely Gathered In - An Anthology 1967-1997 [2005]

Too much on your plate

Nothing's gonna get eaten, baby

Said babe, said babe

Stop to hesitate

You're finally gonna get beaten, baby

Said babe, said babe, said babe



I could have died

If my fate had been left up to you

Too late I cried

But my heart she was broken in two



Correcting all my bad mistakes

And making new ones, too

It's hard when life won't do

What you want it to do



Too much on your plate

Nothing's gonna get eaten, baby

Said babe, said babe, said babe

Stop to hesitate

You 're finally gonna get beaten, baby

Said babe, said babe, said babe



Now you've taken your chains

And you wandered off into the blue

But I stay unchanged

I'm still looking for somebody new

And evenings when I'm on my own

I sometimes think of you

It's hard when life won't do

What you want it to do