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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

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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 

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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

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RAIN (Ken Hensley)
(1972) The Magician's Birthday

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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