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Lyrics

  1. Bird Of Prey
  2. The Park
  3. Time To Live
  4. Lady In Black
  5. High Priestess
  6. Salisbury
  7. Simon The Bullet Freak
  8. Here Am I

  1. Bird Of Prey (Box/Byron/Newton)

    I can see that look that says beware
    Try to move in closer if you dare
    So I must sit and play my waiting game
    And for a while I know she'll do the same
    Fly away

    Watches like an eagle from its eerie
    Then like a bird of prey she captures me
    But I am older and more wise than you
    Bird of prey straight into me you flew
    Fly away

    Now every time I've tried to set her free
    I'm glad to say she comes right back to me
    But if I knew she didn't want to stay
    I wouldn't try to keep that lovely bird of prey

  2. The Park (Hensley)

    Let me walk a while alone
    Among the sacred rocks and stones
    Let me look in vain belief
    Upon the beauty of each leaf

    There is green in every glade
    The tree tops been providing shade
    They go spinning happy sound
    All nature's strength around

    And there's a horse that feels no pain
    Its iron strength to take the strain
    Children rock it to and fro
    And gaily trim its coloured brow

    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

    Above the sky devoid of cloud
    Think not to cast a thunder shroud
    Upon this place so full of joy
    A field of gold of love's employ

    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

    So why my heavy heart you say
    When tears would stain the sights so gay
    My brother's dreams once here did soar
    Until he died at the hand of needless war

    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

  3. Time To Live (Box/Byron/Hensley)

    Let me see the sunshine
    Let me feel the rain
    Let me go where I want to go
    I want to smell the flowers
    See the dawn again
    Find those friends I used to know
    Find those friends I used to know

    Well I spent twenty long years
    In a dirty old prison cell
    I never saw the light of day
    If you could understand oh
    That kind of living hell
    That's the price I have to pay Oh Yeah
    That's the price I have to pay Oh Yeah, oh oh

    They said I killed a man
    But I never told them why
    So you can guess what I've been through
    So for twenty long years
    I've been thinking of that other guy
    And what I saw him do to you
    What I saw him do to you

    Listen here
    So if tomorrow comes
    And I walk outside that door
    Try to understand the strain
    But if you smile that smile
    I know I couldn't ask for more
    I know I'd do it all again
    Yes I would
    I know I'd do it all again
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah
    Do it all again
    Do it all again

  4. Lady In Black (Hensley)

    She came to me one morning
    One lonely Sunday morning
    Her long hair flowing in the midwinter wind
    I know not how she found me
    For in darkness I was walking
    And destruction lay around me
    From a fight I could not win

    Ahh Ahh Ahh, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh

    She asked me name my foe then
    I said the need within some men
    To fight and kill their brothers
    Without thought of love or God
    And I begged her give me horses
    To trample down my enemies
    So eager was my passion
    To devour this waste of life

    Ahh Ahh Ahh, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh

    But she wouldn't think of battle that
    Reduces men to animals
    So easy to begin
    And yet impossible to end
    For she's the mother of all men
    Who counselled me so wisely then
    I feared to walk alone again
    And asked if she would stay

    Oh lady lend your hand outright
    And let me rest here at your side
    Have faith and trust in peace she said
    And filled my heart with life

    There's no strength in numbers
    Have no such misconception
    But when you need me
    Be assured I won't be far away

    Ahh Ahh Ahh, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh

    Thus having spoke she turned away
    And though I found no words to say
    I stood and watched until I saw
    Her black cloak disappear
    My labour is no easier
    But now I know I'm not alone
    I'll find new heart
    Each time I think upon that windy day

    And if one day she comes to you
    Drink deeply from her words so wise
    Take courage from her as your prize
    And say hello from me

    Ahh Ahh Ahh, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh

  5. High Priestess (Hensley)

    You, who brought the sunshine to my eyes
    You, who wondered through my sad disguise
    And I have a love that can not die... for you

    High Priestess of my heart
    Tell me that we won't part

    Then let's get together in the sky
    To leave the lonely world to wonder why
    For we have a love that cannot die... so true

    High priestess of my heart
    Tell me that we won't part

  6. Salisbury (Box/Byron/Hensley)

    Somewhere in your eyes that very special glow
    Somthing drawing me to where I do not know
    I never really thought that I would lose myself
    Now I'm moving faster than anybody else

    You moved without a sound and touched me with your hand
    Just like the rains that fondles every little grain of sand
    This thing we're going to do it's just for you and me
    I'm gonna make it good, good as it can be, oh
    Do it this time with me

    Your kiss is sweeter now your breath is getting warm
    We must take our time to make it last 'til dawn
    I wonder will it be oh I expect it to
    There have been other girls but no one else like you
    I feel a power here I never felt before
    And I begin to see what draws us to want more
    Oh girl of all my dreams please tell me if I'm wrong
    Because I've been blue, but we belong

    As time passed and all too fast
    I knew we couldn't last
    And I guessed that the end was near at last
    Though we tried our love inside
    It just crumpled up and died
    What went wrong I will never understand
    You tell me why
    Alone again, how could you leave me
    Alone again, I don't wanna be
    Alone again, yeah!

    There's a line in a rhyme I was going to send to you
    It says "All that is to be will surely be"
    So you thought you had to go
    'Cause you needed someone new
    Is there still a chance that you'll come back to me
    I want you back you see Alone again, how could you leave me
    Alone again, how could you leave me
    Alone again, I don't want to be alone again yeah!

  7. Simon The Bullet Freak (Hensley)

    Greater than to face it, give me your money
    Make my life sunny for a day
    Road that leads to nowhere, please stop your crying
    I ain't fit for dying this way
    Go steal another with your eye
    Go try some other heartless lie

    Now I have hope of speaking, bring back the moon
    Don't play your silly games with me
    Oh what a waste of daydream. What is your need
    I'm gonna bleed until you pay
    You've lost all sign of your direction
    You're only looking for the next one
    The next one to kill

    Ashes of destruction spread out so far
    Blackened nurses crying over me
    See a one time city, now just a scar
    Tears of the flower man fill the sea
    Give me a chance to fly away
    There's nothing here for me today
    Today

  8. Here Am I (Hensley)

    I sit in my sunny chair
    With my head held low
    I know the reason I’m dreaming
    It’s really been fun
    But where is there left to go
    Save to give my life a new meaning

    And if by chance
    You’d come my way
    I’ll have to say
    Here am I, give me love
    Here am I, give me love

    How was I to know
    Your heart was unsatisfied
    When you never troubled to tell me
    No wish that you made to me
    Ever was denied
    I played it just the way
    That it should be

    But then you turned
    And walked away
    I have to say
    Here am I, give me love
    Here am I, give me love

    Here am I, give me love

    I imagine I must sit here
    Till the winter comes
    And just watch the days
    Growing shorter
    To gather in dust won’t go
    Till my thinking’s done
    And I walk from this troubled water

    By then my need won’t be so bad
    And I’ll gladly say
    Here am I, give me love
    Here am I, give me love...

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