4. Solo Album:



INSPIRATION (Ken Hensley)

You used to be my inspiration
You showed me which way to go
Now we've run into this complication
And I'm back out in the cold

It isn't only the hurt I feel
You see I just don't understand
And like a storm in the midst of summer
You messed up all my plans

And if you can't give me a reason
Won't you spare me a word?
Tell me not to believe in the things I've heard

You can't tell me goodbye
Without telling me why
You can't expect me to believe a single word

It isn't only the hurt I feel
You see I just don't understand
And like a storm in the midst of summer
You messed up all my plans

And if you can't give me a reason
Won't you spare me a word?
Tell me not to believe in the things I've heard

You can't tell me goodbye
Without telling me why
You can't expect me to believe a single word



I DON'T WANNA WAIT (Ken Hensley)

I don't wanna wait until tomorrow
I don't wanna wait another day
I don't wanna live with all this sorrow
I'll just have to find another way

Seeing as how you've kept me
Hanging around for all this time
Playing with my mind and leaving
All our love behind

Well it's time for a decision
Should I stay or should I go
I need our love to grow
But there's so much I wanna know

'Cause in my heart and in my head
Are thoughts of how it used to be
But a world of memories
Is only emptiness to me

I don't wanna wait untill tomorrow
I don't wanna wait another day
I don't wanna live with all this sorrow
I'll just have to find another way

And it's not a false illusion
I can see what's going on
If the magic's really gone
Then this is not where I belong

And I ask myself the questions
That confusion seems to bring
While the answers stay so thin
Upon the ground where I begin
'Cause in my heart and in my head
Are thoughts of how it just to be
But a world of memories
Is only emptiness to me

I don't wanna wait untill tomorrow
I don't wanna wait another day
I don't wanna live with all this sorrow
I'll just have to find another way



THERE COMES A TIME (Ken Hensley)

There comes a time in every man's life
He just forgets where he's going
There comes a time and he'll know just when
Because he'll simply stop growing

Without a deep imagination
Fear and doubt will quickly spread
And it's a hopeless situation
Or that's how it looks inside his head
There comes a time

There comes a time to make up your mind
Time to face up to the problem
Every single day is a part of your life
And nothing can be forgotten

Time and time and time again
Who knows where and who knows when
It could happen any time
But it's too late to change your mind
And it's too late to change your mind
There comes a time



LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (Ken Hensley)

You came to me with your eyes wide open
And you offered me your heart
You chose a time when my soul was in trouble
You let your love play its part

Love at first sight
I felt Cupid's arrow bite
Love at first sight
Won't you carry me away?

I swear that you must have come to me from heaven
Exactly in my time of need
I can't imagine all the things that might have happened
If my heart had not been freed

Love at first sight
I felt Cupid's arrow bite
Love at first sight
Won't you carry me away? 

We'll share our secrets
And dwell on the subjects
That pleases us and makes us feel good
Safe in our love world
Our secret above world
That no one else ever understood

Love at first sight
I felt Cupid's arrow bite
Love at first sight
Won't you carry me away?



YOU (Ken Hensley)

If only you were a healer
You could cure me of all my ills
And if you were the kind to take care of my mind
You'd be sure that my cup was filled

But you're only the greatest lady
And you only fulfil all my dreams
And I doubt if I could love you any more than I do
You're my everything

If you took my hand and we danced on a star
Or predicted some event from afar
Offered me gold at the end of a rainbow
I'd still love you just the way you are
I'd still love you just the way you are

So there's something I'm looking for
Though I don't know what or where
And it seems when I hold out my hand in need
There's no one and nothing to share

It doesn't matter what you try to be
You'll only ever be you to me
I've gotta stay blind to your sad charade
'Cause I know it's only a game you play
Yes I know It's only a game you play

And I'd still love you just the way you are
I'd still love you just the way you are



THE NAME OF THE GAME (Ken Hensley)

Here comes trouble in the shape of a lady
She started cool but now she's coming around daily
She's got some big ideas about being my baby
It's her game with the name of love

Now she sure pretty that I have to confess
But no five-star fox is getting me in a mess
Let's buy a ring, she says, go out and get blessed
It's her game and she calls it love

Rock'n'Roll rules my soul
Pushing everything and everyone to one side
But when it all grows old
The chill's still cold
When I sing with my sweet guitar
When I sing with my sweet guitar

Rock'n'Roll rules my soul
Pushing everything and everyone to one side
But when it all grows old
The chill's still cold
When I sing with my sweet guitar
When I sing with my sweet guitar ...



GUILTY (Ken Hensley)

She's guilty of deceiving me
She said she was in love with me
Worse, still, how long it took to see
How cruel love can be

She twisted my words
Though I gave her love in the face of her lies
She's the devil in a fancy dress
She wears her passion as a thin disguise

And now that we have parted
And gone our separate ways
We can look back on all those wasted days
For there's a lesson inside our story
It haunts my memory
It taught me how hard the learning can be

And now that we have parted
And gone our separate ways
We can look back on all those wasted days
Oh there's a lesson inside our story
It haunts my memory
It taught me how hard the learning can be



WHO WILL SING FOR YOU (Ken Hensley)

Who will sing for you?
When you need a song
Who will stay with you?
When it all goes wrong

Who will be there when you feel the weight of a tear?
And say a prayer that is real just to lighten your fears
When I'm gone ...

I have lived with you
Through the good and the bad
And I've given you
Everything I had

But I need to be needed, not just used
So many times I have pleaded but, 
I have been abused
So now I'm gone ...

How long can a man be expected to live?
Without a heart and nothing to give



MAYBE YOU CAN TELL ME (Ken Hensley)

It's not that I no longer love you
For I loved you once so much
And it can't be that I've grown to hate you
For it's just not in my heart to bear a grudge

So why when someone mentions your name
Do I naturally assume it's the same, maybe?

Maybe you can tell me
Do you know something I don't know?
Maybe you can tell me
Is there really no place left for us to go

And if you speak will I believe what you say
Or will I dwell on the day you nearly broke my heart
If only you knew how I want it all to be true
I really need to know what keeps us apart

I can't put it all down to emotion
Lord that's just a worn-out excuse
You're offering me your love
And that is something I just can't refuse

So I promise I'll try to welcome your name
And I'll tell myself you wanna do the same, cause maybe

Maybe you can tell me
Do you know something I don't know?
Maybe you can tell me
Is there really no place left for us to go

Maybe you can tell me
Do you know something I don't know?
Maybe you can tell me
Is there really no place left for us to go



FREE SPIRIT (Ken Hensley)

When I was young and my spirit was free to ride
No one I knew had anything to hide
But all of this is changing with the days
I walked into a disillusioned maze

Those lazy, crazy, mellow, yellow days
Are lost in a so-called sophisticated haze
And I can still remember being carefree
And no one knows it better than me

'Cause I'm a free spirit
And I'm looking for a place to run
Free spirit of the wind
And a free spirit needs to be complete
I've got to have the world at my feet

Now my time has come and I'm dealing with here and now
And I'm gonna have to take care of it somehow
And I don't intend to wait for the cover of night
The only way I know is to get up and fight

'Cause I'm a free spirit
And I'm looking for a place to run
Free spirit of the wind
And a free spirit needs to be complete
I've got to have the world at my feet



COLD AUTUMN SUNDAY (Ken Hensley)
(1973) Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf

When the leaving birds fill the storm grey sky
And the green, green leaves turn away and die
And the once warm sun has no running hide
And the winter clouds begin their stormy ride
Cold black shadows cross my eyes
And help to make me realise
You're gone, oh cold autumn Sunday

Still I walk along the path we shared
And I'll try to recreate the love we had
For you were my life and my heart is sad
And it's strange how autumn used to make me glad
Only now an empty sky is there
To let me know how much I care
You're gone, oh cold autumn Sunday

I'm near to dying
No use denying that it's true
Spend my whole time crying
Finding ways of trying not to be blue
Over you



LONGER SHADOWS (Ken Hensley)
(1975) Eager To Please

Winter came today and took the sun away
Leaving me with nothing but the stars to play
But I'm sure that I won't let it bring me down
The rough comes with the smooth but that's what life's about

Working on the principle that you'll be here
I can stand alone for quite a while
I know I can learn to live the changes of the year
Mellow in the river of your smile

I know that the season's Queen can hear me
She's bringing longer shadows to the trees
Perhaps she knows I'd love to have you near me
So she tries her very best to please - her best to please

I suppose I'll always have these memories
Till we are together once again
Of the days which were so long and lonely
Till the longer shadows and all the golden meadows
Tell me that the time has come for us to love again



BLACK HEARTED LADY (Ken Hensley) 
(1973) Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf

Reading between the lines I find
You don't mean what you say
You cheated and you lied
And how you made me hurt inside

You turned my days to darkest nights
And rearranged my dreams
You're just not what you seem
Black Hearted Lady

I am from the land
So you won't understand my grief
I've lived in vain belief
In world of poisoned words
And everywhere I look
I find no answer to my prayer
You're just not there
Black hearted lady



TAKE CARE (Ken Hensley)

Just like footsteps in the snow
Who knows where my heart will go?
Will it lead me to you?
Or will I see another empty day?

Seasons come and quickly go
Kinda makes me wonder if they know
Why my heart keeps running near and far
If only they would tell me where you are

If you've ever been in love then
You know the rocky road I'm speaking of
You'll remember when the times were good
And the times you had to do without

Think carefully my friend
It may look like the start but it could be the end

I'm not trying to bring you down
I'm so tired of running around
I won't make the same mistakes again

Think carefully my friend



DOES ANYTHING MATTER (Ken Hensley)

Once was a boy from Dubrovnik
Who insisted on pissing in public
When asked for his reason
He said: It's the season
For farting and changing the subject

Did you ever meet the kind of a lady?
She lives her whole life saying maybe
Running here and there as she pleases
Not a thought for the people she teases

Though she never thinks of settling down
She'll spend time turning your head around
But don't let your heart start dancing
The lady don't waste no time romancing

Are you mine or are you a woman of the world?
Are you really so different from all the other girls?
Do you care that I care about the things that you do?
Does anything matter to you?
Does anything matter to you?

Once in a garden of glory
Someone sowed the seeds of this story
And the whole thing began with a woman a man
And still it's something no one understands

Does anything matter to you?
Does anything matter to you?

Note: 
This song is a demo version of "Woman Of The World".
The first verse doesn't appear on all releases of this album.



IF I HAD THE TIME (Ken Hensley)
(1973) Sweet Freedom

If I had the time to relive my life
I don't think I'd care to change a thing
Long as I find just a little peace of mind
I can dream and laugh, I can sing

I can have my fun with the silver stars
I can watch the sun fall in the sea, when I want to
And if it rains I will smile just the same
For the rain ill make the flowers sing

I know how it is to feel sad
I know how it is when things go bad
But I'm sure that I have found a way
I'm happy here and here I'll stay

If I had the time to relive my life
I don't think I'd care to change a thing
As long as I find just a little peace of mind
I can dream and laugh, I can sing