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Solo Album: WHEN EVENING COMES (Ken Hensley) At the break of day When my dreams have come and gone The memories will fade away But I wonder for how long Not too long For I know an evening comes And I'll hear the nightbirds tune I'll remember where it all begun As we danced beside the moon It's always on my mind But where did it come from Our love was the strongest kind So where can it have gone Won't someone show me the way To turn my night into day Or throw a rope around the moon No don't let it see me alone It's always on my mind But where did it come from Our love was the strongest kind So where can it have gone FROM TIME TO TIME (Ken Hensley) Once I loved a pretty woman Till one day she up and ran S'pose I should have felt it coming But it's hard to think of her with another man Oh my lady I need you Though from time to time I don't seem to Once the sun shone in my garden Till my love took off and left me with the rain Now my heart and I are starting To forget it all and start out again Oh my lady I need you Though from time to time I don't seem to My heart is hurting so bad And all the trees look so sad And all the love we could have had Ooh from time to time A KING WITHOUT A THRONE (Ken Hensley) Walk on a dusty road without any shoes See all the people out there singing the blues I've got my trouble but I'm paying my dues It isn't easy but there's too much too lose Many's the time I have wandered alone Looking this way of life for something unknown But where can a good king go without his throne Many's a good man lost in his prime The part of the fortune took him well before his time He's got his trouble but I've still got mine Got to find some freedom before I start to decline The moon is rising and I'm still on my own This must be life I guess the seeds has been sown But where can a good king go without his throne Where can he go who can he see Is there anybody it's easy to be Find him a stairway, find him a tree And while you're doing it please, won't you find one for me The unbeliever says it's hard to believe I'm told the preacher frowns on those who deceive The winds of winter steal the leaves from the trees The path of fortune is getting closer to me The snow is falling and the truth is obscure I think of all the things my soul has endured Cursing this loneliness that can't be cured RAIN (Ken Hensley) (1972) The Magician's Birthday PROUD WORDS ON A DUSTY SHELF (Ken Hensley) Stand up and fight Or you'll lose your right You all stand in a line Fightin' hard to hold on to your mind Seek and you'll find Proud words on a dusty shelf Find and you'll seek Keep on keeping on helping yourself When the wind of troubles comes Blow away all battle drums And stand up and fight Stand up and fight Don't stand in a line Hold on to your mind FORTUNE (Ken Hensley) Although now it seems like never When we were even less together I appeared to have my back to the wall And the way things were going There was no way of knowing If I was having any luck at all Silently, suddenly standing before me An old man awaiting his death Part of me cried out But none turned to hide For no curses distorted his breath It was then I took to thinking And my hands took to writing And my dreams came in answer to the call Waiting in wonder My thoughts ran like thunder Could it be that I've been wasting my mind I grew sort of cold as the vision unfolded Bursting the shackles of time So I gathered what I had And took a look at what was going down And it made me kinda sad Seeing all the circles going slowly round And the stars sang in harmony It was so perfect that it laid me down And the rain clouds were tossed away Seems like the world was lost And I would drown In its sound Somewhere along the way I don't know where I had really believed I was poor Looking not seeing the point of my being When all of my fortune is sure BLACK HEARTED LADY (Ken Hensley) 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 into 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 GO DOWN (Ken Hensley) She sits so quietly at the window by the door Wondering if she'll ever smile again Her eyes filled with memories Of her life in sad array Unaware of the colors of the day She dare not cry for fear Her hope might disappear But if she cared to try I know it all could be so clear But she's livin' in the past She didn't know it wouldn't last And it's a long, long lonely road To go down The treasured names we called each other Just for fun And as you woke she kissed your eyes You killed it all when it had only just begun What it takes to make you realize Love isn't easy though many like to think it is But you must learn to give and take or know What you will miss For she's livin' in the past She didn't know it wouldn't last And it's a long, long lonely road To go down COLD AUTUMN SUNDAY (Ken Hensley) When the leaving birds fill the storm grey sky And the green green leaves burn away and die And the once warm sun has to run and hide And the winter clouds begin their stormy ride Cold black shadows cross my eyes And help to make me realize 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 news still 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 THE LAST TIME (Ken Hensley) I have travelled across the universe On wings of golden light And the lady of the mountain Brought me comfort in the night But the love I really need Is furthest from my sight It is yours Oh, tell my love, I'm coming home For the last time I have seen the children playing As I watched the sun go down I have shared their games and sung their songs And helped their world go round And allthough I know enough of life To tie up my own shoes I still need you Oh, tell my love, I'm coming home For the last time Oh, tell my love, I've been away For the last time