Look At Yourself Single: Look at Yourself/Simon The Bullet Freak Ken Hensley I see you running Don't know what You're running from Nobody's coming What'd you do that was so wrong Look back and turn back Look at yourself Don't be afraid, just Look at yourself If you need assistance Or if all you need is love There's no point in hiding Tell me what you're frightened of You've got a friend, just Look at yourself Don't be afraid, just Look at yourself Simon The Bullet Freak Single: Look at Yourself/Simon The Bullet Freak Ken Hensley Freed of empty faces 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 Land of hopeless speaking Bringing back the moon Don't play your silly games with me Oh, war of wasted daydream What is your need I'm gonna bleed until you kill me You've lost all sight of your direction You're only looking for the next one The next one to kill Ashes of destruction Spread out so far Blackened others 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 Gypsy Single: The Wizard/Gypsy Mick Box /David Byron I was only seventeen I fell in love with a gypsy queen She told me: "Hold on" Her father was the leading man He said: "You're not welcome on our land" And then as a foe He told me to go He took me to a little shack And put a whip across my back Then told her leave me I was out for quite a time Came back with her on my mind Sweet little girl She means all the world Oh, I want my gypsy queen Will she still be torn between Her father and lover One day I will go to him Strong enough to fight and win The kind of a man That he'll understand ... Why Single: The Wizard/Why Mick Box /David Byron /Paul Newton /Ken Hensley Thought of no tomorrow The pain, tears and sorrow And you never told me why The way you cheated And mistreated You could never tell me why But I'm gonna find out I'm gonna find out What's been messing up your mind Messing up your mind Is there any true reason Or anything I can explain Can't we talk about it baby Get together again You see I have the feeling That this isn't the end And I feel it knowing On you I depend I'm gonna find out Yeah, I'm gonna find out What has been Messing up your mind Perhaps it's best for us To stay together And try to live our lives as one And maybe we will find We're still together To watch the setting of the sun Stealin' Single: Stealin/Sunshine Ken Hensley Take me across the water ‘Cause I need some place to hide I done the rancher's daughter And I sure did hurt his pride Well, there's a Hundred miles of desert Lies between his hide and mine I don't need no food And no water, Lord 'Cos I'm running out of time Fightin', killin', wine and women Gonna put me to my grave Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin' Nothing left to save but my life Stood on a ridge And shunned religion Thinking the world was mine I made my break and a big mistake Stealin', when I Should've been buyin' All that fightin', killin' Wine and those women Gonna put me to an early grave Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin' Nothing left to save but my life, life... So I stood on a ridge And shunned religion Thinking the world was mine I made my break and a big mistake Stealin', when I should've been buyin' I was stealin' When I should've been buyin' I was stealin' When I should've been buyin' Stealin', when I should've been buyin' I was stealin' ... Sunshine Single: Stealin/Sunshine Gary Thain /Mick Box For many years I felt like a man Feeling his way through darkness This priceless treasure For which I've searched Appeared to me nothing more Than a mirage in the sea But when the vision faded From this struggle and dream Suddenly my illusion is diarry I've now discovered what's reality Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine I've found you Even if you're only Even if you're only Even if you're only Destined for a while Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine I've found you Even if you're only Destined for a while I'll be both most impressions And I arrive this with a smile As the picture book shows Stanley Standing at the source of the Nile What Can I Do Single: Something Or Nothing/What Can I Do Mick Box /David Byron /Lee Kerslake I wish you'd stop and Give a helping hand For I guess I'm only half a man I feel the only way for me to leave Is just to give you Everything I can give ‘Cause without you, without you What can I do I will give you all the love I have Just to know you stop me Being so sad I hope you won't think So badly of me ‘Cause I had to tell you This could break myself in Being helpless is a habit of mine No one else can understand You are the one to Help me to survive If you're any friend of mine Yesterday you gave a helping hand To some one you'll Never understand Though I tried to tell you of this way You said I had nothing Constructive to say But without you, without you What can I do ... Shout It Out Single: Prima Donna/Shout It Out Ken Hensley She took me for a ride in her car From the moment it started I knew We wouldn't get far That didn't matter it seemed Though I knew it went schemed And it was just like a dream Oh, the joy of love was brand That's when I heard The little birds sing The day I first met my love Oh, the day I first met my love Then we went walking in the park Away with the day Till the day became dawn Man hand in hand with the son Laughed at the rain When it came along Oh, the joy of love was brand As well the birds As well the stars would sing The day I first met my love Oh, the day I first met my love Am I really standing here with you Are you telling me you love me too Will it grow Can we let the world know Put it about, shout it out The day I first met my love Return To Fantasy Single: Return To Fantasy/The Time Will Come (Germany) Ken Hensley /David Byron Searching every day Looking every way trying to make a connection To find a piece of the action Like a hungry poet Who doesn't know He is close to perfection Choice is the question Moonlight night After moonlight night Side by side They will see us ride But if they cared to look Then they would see It's our return to fantasy Fantasy, fantasy ... Can you understand That in every man There's a need to unwind That's never been defined Somewhere deep within There's another being You are somehow abusing By the person you're using Moonlight night After moonlight night Side by side They will see us ride But if they cared to look Then they would see It's just our return to fantasy Fantasy ... Fantasy ... Travelling faster than lightening Closer than ever before We can go on for you And take you nearer to The legend of mystery From the beginning of time Dreaming ... time ... dreaming We can return to The land of the good and the kind Time ... dreaming ... time ... dreaming Why don't you come to our party And open your minds In another place There's a newer face Like an unfinished painting Your creator is waiting The brush and pen describe What it is inside That will set your mind thinking While the others are sinking The Time Will Come Single: Return To Fantasy/The Time Will Come (Germany) Mick Box /David Byron /Ken Hensley /Lee Kerslake Riding on together Forever till the end Some people try to Come between us But we know they're Not our friends So come on join our party Let the hours slip on by No more cares or worries No more asking yourself why Can you hear us, can you hear us We're never far away Can you hear us, can you hear us This is all we have to say All our love is true Even just for you Don't push us away Like we're of yesterday We never ask for more And we give in return The time will come When everyone will listen The time will come When everyone will care Just look ahead What we said will glitter Like a jewel sailing softly Through the air With everything to live for Sometimes you're Seeing just ahead Wear your vision and find That you're together In five different ways Crime Of Passion Single: Wise Man/Crime Of Passion Ken Hensley /Mck Box /Lee Kerslake Oh yeah! See the blind man at the dead of night He can see, so he won't fight Running scared like a swan in flight On and on, looking for delight But it's you, he'll hear you running As this blind man tells the blind See the children in the jungle zone Black man woken till your work is done He can't hide, there's nowhere to run Waiting for salvation to come And it's you, coming from far Got a lonely mind to sell Crime of passion, crime of pain How long before I see you again I've been free and I've been high Got a soul, never ask my why Masquerade Single: Free Me/Masquerade Ken Hensley A masquerade of dancing shadows Appear before me Through my mystic window And soon to be seen I saw presented Became a vision that I saw resented I stood and watched Its image changing The unseen hand was rearranging And all the time I wondered How did it wind Slowly, surely it unfolded Its simple lines just as A pole wind told it A temporary revolution My problems rose and fell With a lapse of illusion My mind was telling me, don't fight it It's just a hazard in the night Don't do those Who've lost their way It's a masquerade Masquerade, it's a masquerade ... Gimme Love Single: b-side 1978 Trevor Bolder / Mick Box / Lee Kerslake / John Lawton Love, love, love I'm looking for love Love, love, love When I was only sixteen Well, give it take a year or more I've got to singing about The life I've lead And I threw it right out of the door I've got to get some of That heavy jive That the old folks are talkin' about So I strutted my stuff To the local club To see what I was leaving now Looking for love, love, love Looking, looking for love Love, love, love I took my seat at The foot of the stage And waited for the fun to begin And there in the light Stood this heavy chick With the cutest babe That I've ever seen She smiled at me She did her dance Took me by surprise The way she wiggled her hips And she shook that ... Right between the eyes After the show she came And sat down Said: Hi son, what's your name? I said: Never mind that Think about this: Loving's the name of my game She said: That's alright But it'll cost you, son I said: Tell me what's The price of the day She said: Twenty dime And a wedding ring And everything will be O.K. Cheater Single: Come Back To Me/Cheater Ken Hensley Cheater, I know where you've been Cheater, your lies can't hide your sin Cheater, don't ask me how I've know Cheater, I guess it's time for you to go I'm tired of chasing shadows So lllusive in the night And your empty words That leave me high and dry Now the curtain's finally fallen On this fantasy affair You've had me for the last time With your lies Cheater, you're a cheater I know where you've been Cheater, your lies can't hide your sin Cheater, don't ask me how I've know Cheater, I guess it's time for you to go The voices in the wind I heard Kept telling me to run Whispering a warning to my heart And the voices deep as thunder Tried to speak of things to come I was blinded then But now I see the light Cheater, you're a cheater And I know where you've been Cheater, mean mistreater Your lies can't hide your sin Cheater, don't ask me how I've know Cheater, I guess it's time for you to go Cheater. I know where you've been Cheater, you're a cheater Cheater, you're a cheater Cheater, I know where you've been Your lies can't hide your sins Cheater ... Been Hurt Sigle: Carry On/Been Hurt Ken Hensley At the age of eighteen I had had enough And by twenty one I decided to get tough And then I found the guard Was still too rough And I've been hurt Ever since that day I've been hurt And I've lost my way I still think I have a chance To try your love Well, I tried to love you One day at a time Each day waiting Hoping for the sign It was clear I needed luck More than this time And I've been hurt Ever since that day I've been hurt, well, I've lost my way I still think I have a chance To make you mine My empty heart is Counting all the ways Fire and desire Sat and count days Will you, won't you When and where Do you, don't you, do I care That same eternal question Is always there It's always there Love Stealer Single: Love Stealer/No Return Phil Wainman /Trevor Bolder She's got an eye on you There's nowhere to hide She keeps her motives still Deep down inside She shows no mercy, no She plays it rough She don't want no money She just wants to love Love stealer, raw dealer Heart breaker, love taker Yeah yeah ... Love stealer, raw dealer Heart breaker, love taker Yeah yeah ... She walks in the shadows As she waits for the night She gets what she's looking for She knows how to fight If you see her coming Then you'd better know If your love's for the taking She'll steal the show Love stealer, raw dealer Heart breaker, love taker Yeah yeah ... Love stealer, raw dealer Heart breaker, love taker Yeah yeah ... She just can't go round there first Facing the joint Then she'll move in And get right to the point So keep your love locked away Don't let it show Or the love stealer will rock you For more than you'll know Think It Over Single: Think It Over/My Joanna Needs Tunning John Sloman /Trevor Bolder I've had all I can take I've taken just too much I've made a big mistake That put me out of touch I don't think I can face Another single day Without a call from you To take this pain away So many tears ago You turned and walked away It could've been the end But I knew better I had to tell myself There'll be another day She wants to call it quits But don't you dare her Can't you see There's a chance for you and me Think it over Don't believe In the things that may not be Think it over Forgetting you is out I ain't giving in The fuss was down you But its' not over You have to face the truth I'm still in love with you You have to make scene But it's not over Can't you see There's a chance for you and me Think it over Don't believe In the things that may not be Think it over Well, think it over, babe Think it over ... Think it over ... Think it over ... Think it over ... My Joanna Needs Tuning Single: Think It Over/My Joanna Needs Tunning John Sloman /Trevor Bolder /Mick Box /Gregg Dechert /Chris Slade I was waiting for somebody This afternoon Hope that she remembered Our rendezvouz And when she didn't show Just like yesterday I do the last, I'll find another way One night I saw the stranger Across the hall I knew he was the reason Why she didn't call I wish I had imagined Or dreamt the lot But the heart didn't choose The pain I've got Now she' turning me inside out Upside down And me heart is all a roundabout Spinnin' round She's turnin' me inside out Inside out She's turnin' me inside out Inside out Now he's got all so melt With a diamond ring And she was thinking through Almost anything She's like a shadow going up Seventh avenue But so what, she's only going Where she's didn't to I just got one thing to say Just before I go Since he was the offender I want her to know Now my mind has got me the day I'm watching to I'll never raise a thought Of what she'd done Tin Soldier (Abominog EP) Steve Marriott /Ronnie Lane I am the little tin soldier That wants to jump into your fire You, oh, look in your eye A dream passing by in the skies I don't understand All I need is to treat me like a man I ain't no child, take me like I am I've got some love That belongs to you I'll do anything that you want me to I'll sing any song that you want me To sing to you All I need is your whispered hello Smile smelting the snow Nothing heard Your eyes, oh, deeper than time I see a love that won't Rhyme without words So now bless my way I need help to show me Things to say Give me your love Before mine breaks away I don't need no aggrevation I just got to make you I just got to make you understand I just wan't some reaction Someone to give me satisfaction I love you Son Of A Bitch (Abominog EP) Mick Box /Bob Daisley /Peter Goalby /Lee Kerslake /John Sinclair Hes the son of the bitch Hes the son of a fool Sign of the times No exception he's the rule Hes down on his luck Hes down on his knees Cut really deep He knows how to bleed Hes the son of the dog Youll see him run with the pack He wont look you in the eyes Hell stab you in the back The son of the dog Only runs with the pack Hell take your life He wont look back Son of a - he's a son of a bitch Hes a son of a - Hes a son of a bitch Hear the woman of the streets She never learned how to cry Shell spread her wings Shell never fly Woman of the night She hangs like a bat Shell scratch at your eyes Fight like a cat Hear the lost, hear the lonely Hear the fool, that wont get to see Hear the lost, hear the lonely And don't, don't pity me Son of the bitch Hes a son of a - Oh, the son of a bitch Hes the son of the poor The son of the rich The son of the dog The son of the bitch Woman of the night Hangs like a bat Shell scratch at your eyes She fights like a cat Hes the son of the bitch Hes the son of a fool A sign of the times No exception he's the rule Down on his luck Down on his knees Cut really deep So he knows how to bleed Hes a sign of the times Hes the son of a - Son of a ... bitch The son of a bitch Playing For Time Single: Stay On Top/Playing For Time Mick Box /Bob Daisley /Peter Goalby /John Sinclair Travel down the road of heartache Hear an echo in my mind I've played with fire Burned my fingers Now I'm gonna take my time You don't have to shout about it Can't you see it obvious Feel - it's getting close to comfort Why you makin' such a fuss Take your time with What you're doin' And you'll see the skies appear Seen and heard it all before her Now you understand my fear Can't you see the time will tell us How it's gonna always be You can wrap me Around your finger And I ain't no mystery Playing for time That's all I can do I'm playing for time Before I fall in love with you You can push me every which way Hey I got no place to fall Guess you're gonna rue your bullshit When your back's against the wall Louder now that's what the games go And I bought the devil now You can get to dream about it I won't need one anyhow Playing for time That's all I can do Playing for time Before I fall in love Playing for time That's all I wanna do Playing for time Before I fall in love Oh, you don't have to shout about it Can't you see it obvious Feel it's getting close for comfort Why you making such a fuss? travel down the road of heartache Hear an echo my mind Played with fire, burned my fingers Now I'm gonna take my time Playing for time Before I fall in love with you Playing for time That's all I want to do Playing for time Before I fall Playing for time All I wanna do Playing for time ... |