[Chords]/Lyrics


Salisbury



  1. Bird Of Prey (UK release only, not the same as the US version)
  2. The Park
  3. Time To Live
  4. Lady In Black
  5. High Priestess (listed as the 1st song on the US release)
  6. Salisbury
  7. Simon The Bullet Freak (listed before "Salisbury" and only available on the US release, bonus track on the remastered version - also on "Rarities From The Bronze Age")
  8. High Priestess (bonus single-edit on the remastered version)



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

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

    Watches like an eagle from its tree
    Then like a bird of prey she captured me
    But I am older and more wise than you
    Bird of prey - straight into me you flew
    Oh No!

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

  2. The Park (Hensley)

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

    There is green in evr'y place
    The trees so .. in shade
    Make us sing a happy song
    All nature's strangers are around

    And there's a horse that feels no pain
    It's iron strength to take the strain
    Children rock it to and fro
    And gayly drink its colour glow

    Ahahahah

    Above the sky devoid of cloud
    Think not to cast a thunder shroud
    Upon this place so full of joy

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


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

    (intro)
    G...F.........G...E.......D#.......F......G...F........G...E.......D#.......F.......
    (Wah Solo over this rhythm)GG BbBb CC D#D# FF (2x)

    [GG] Let me[BbBb] see the sunshine[CC] Let me[D#D#] feel the[FF] rain
    [GG]Let me[BbBb] go,[CC] where I wanna go [D#D#][FF]
    [GG] Well I wanna[BbBb] smell the flowers[CC] See the[D#D#] dawn [FF]again
    [D#D#]Find [DD] those friends I [CC] used to know [Bb,A]
    [D#D#]Find [DD] those friends I [CC] used to know [Bb,A]

    [GG] Well I spent [BbBb] 20 long years[CC] in a dirty old prison[D#D#][FF] cell
    [GG] I never[BbBb] saw the[CC] light of day[D#D#][FF]
    [GG] If you could [BbBb] understand...[CC] oh that kind of livin' hell
    [D#D#][FF]
    [D#D#] That's the [DD] price I have to pay[CC]..... [Bb]Oh [A] Yeah
    [D#D#] That's the [DD] price I have to pay[CC]..... [Bb,A]

    (repeat intro)
    [G...F.........G...E.......D#.......F......G...F........]Oh
    Yeahhhh.[G...E.......] ohh[ D#.......]ohhhh [F.......]
    (Wah-Solo over this rhythm) GG BbBb CC D#D# FF (2x)

    [GG] They said I [BbBb] killed a man[CC] But I never[D#D#] told them [FF]why
    [GG] So you can [BbBb]guess what I've [CC]been through[D#D#] [FF]
    [GG]And so for [BbBb] 20 long years [CC] I've been thinking of that [D#D#] other[FF] guy
    [D#D#]And what I [DD]saw him do to you[CC]...[Bb,A]
    [D#D#] what I [DD]saw him do to you....[CC] [Bb,A] Listen
    [GG] So when to [BbBb]morrow comes[CC] and I walk out [D#D#]side that door [FF]
    [GG] to under [BbBb]stand the [CC] strain [D#D#][FF]
    [GG] But if you[BbBb] smile that smile[CC] I know I couldn't [D#D#] ask for[FF] more
    [D#D#] I know I 'd [DD]do it all [CC] again...yes I will [Bb,A]
    [D#D#] I know I 'd [DD]do it all [CC]again [Bb,A]
    [GG] Yeah... [BbBb] Yeah.... [CC] Yeah...[D#D#][FF] Yeah...
    [GG] ohhh [BbBb] yeahhh [CC] hhhhhh! [D#D#][FF]
    [GG] Do it all [BbBb] again....[CC] Do it all again [D#D#][FF]
    GG BbBb CC D#D# FF (fading)


  4. Lady In Black (Hensley)

    Am (four acoustic guitars) |--------|--------|--------|--------|

    [Am]She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning
    Her [G]long hair flowing in the mid-winter[Am]'s wind
    [Am]I know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walking
    And d[G]estruction lay around me, from a figh[Am]t I could not win

     

    [Am]Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh A[G]hh Ahh A[Am]hh.... AHHH ahh [G]ahh AHH [Am]ahh

    |-----run-|---bass enters---|--------|

    [Am]She asked me name my foe then, I said the need within some men
    To [G]fight and kill their brothers, without t[Am]hought of love or God
    [Am]And I begged her give me horses to trample down my enemy
    So [G]eager was my passion to [Am]devour this waste of life

    [Am]Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh A[G]hh Ahh A[Am]hh....AHHH Aahh [G]ahh AHH [Am]ahh

    [Am]But she wouldn't think of battle that, reduces men to animals
    So [G]easy to begin and yet im[Am]possible to end
    [Am]For she the mother of all men, had counceled me so wisely that
    I [G]feared to walk alone again and [Am]asked if she would stay [Am]Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh A[G]hh Ahh A[Am]hh .... AHHH ahh [G]ahh AHH [Am]ahh [Am]Oh lady lend your hand I cried, oh let me rest here by your side
    Have [G]faith and trust in me she said, and filled[Am] my heart with life
    [Am]There's no strength in numbers, have no such misconception
    But [G]when you need me be assured I[Am] won't be far away

    [Am]Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh A[G]hh Ahh A[Am]hh .... AHHH ahh [G]ahh AHH [Am]ahh

    [Am]Thus having spoke she turned away, and 'though I found no words to say
    I [G]stood and watched until I saw her [Am]black cloak disappear
    [Am]My labour is no easier but now I know I'm not alone
    I [G]find new heart each time I think [Am]upon that windy day
    [Am]And if one day she comes to you, drink deeply from her words so wise
    Take [G]courage from her as your prize and say [Am]hello from me

    --- [Am]Ahh Ahh AHHH, [G]Ahh Ahh [Am]Ahh Ahh ... AHHH[G] ahh ahh[Am] AHH ahh --- Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    --- Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    (1) Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    (2) Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    (3) Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    --- Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    --- Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh
    --- Ahh Ahh AHHH, Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh ... AHHH ahh ahh AHH ahh

    (1) bass/drums
    (2) bass/drums (build cres.)
    (3) guitars enetr slowly


  5. High Priestess (Hensley)

    You, who brought the sunshine to my eyes
    You, who wander 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

    Let us get together in the sky
    Leave the lonely world to wonder why
    For we have a love that can not 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's drawing me to where I do not know
    I never realy thought that I would lose myself
    But now I'm moving faster than anybody else
    You move without a sound and touch me with your hand
    Just like the rain that fondles every little grain of sand
    This thing we gonna do is just for you and me
    And I'm gonna make it good, good as it can be

    Your kiss is sweeter now your breath is getting warm
    And we must take our time to make it last 'till dawn
    I wonder will it be what,oh, I expected 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 drives to want more
    Oh girl of all my dreams, please tell me if I'm wrong
    Because I believe that we belong

    As time passed and all too fast
    I just knew it couldn't last
    And I guess that the end was near at last
    Though we tried our love inside
    It just whithered up and died
    What went wrong I will never, never understand
    You tell me why

    Alone again, how could you leave me
    Alone again, I don't wanna be alone again

    There's a line in a rhyme
    I was going to send to me
    It says all that is to be will surely be
    And so you wrote ,you had to go
    'Cause you needed some one new
    Is there still a chance
    That you'll come back to me
    I want you back you see


  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

    Simon and the bullet freak

    (Repeat and Fade)

Kris Degruytere, Constantin Averin, Bradley A. Todd (lyrics), Jay Pearson (tracks)

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