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Ain't it a Shame?
04:11
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Rainy days and maybe I still wanted
Maybe I still wanted to be free
You know I’ve made my share of bad decisions
Ain’t it a shame to find them all come down on me
I’ll find my way
I’ll find my way home
To the one I had to let go
Ain’t it a shame
Ain’t it a shame
Are you lonely?
You can know me for a moment or a lifetime
Words are misconstrued and left behind
And no one ever promised you tomorrow
Ain’t it a shame when you don’t say what’s on your mind
I’ll find my way
I’ll find my way home
To the one I had to let go
Ain’t it a shame
Ain’t it a shame
Are you lonely?
I’ll stop and start and over again
Tables turn and shift in the wind
Now I’m leaving
Leaving the city
Ain’t it a shame?
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Fix Me Up
03:02
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Make me tired
Make me weak
Break me so I can’t even speak
Wreck me with your sweet affection
Tear me with your love
I’m a man broken down by the side of the road
Fix me up
Make me lonely
Make me sad
I’ll be the best love
That you never had
Cathedral choirs are singing
Freedom from above
I’m a man broken down by the side of the road
Fix me up
Well I’ve been beat down
Smoked out, run around
Churned to the ground ‘til you find there’s nothing left
I guess my excess
Gonna squeeze these dreams ‘til they break into pieces
Take what you need and leave me be
‘Til you find me beneath the apple tree singing
Please
Roll me over
Run me in a ditch
Tear me down
Turn me on like a light switch
Cathedral choirs are singing
Freedom from above
I’m a man broken down by the side of the road
Fix me up
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Trickle Down
03:42
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Welcome to a love affair
So dangerous and debonair
You’ll never come up for air at all
It bends and twirls like beams of light
With arms that wrap around the night
I can’t believe something so right is real
But everybody sings the blues
And now and then they’ll turn on you
So tell me how we all got through
With no where left to go
When you’re stuck out in the cold
Let it flow down into your bones
Love’s gonna trickle down into your soul
Cut your teeth while whippoorwills
Stand on shoulder blades and daffodils
And oopsy-daisy does it all the time
Take a little leave a lot
For what we have is what we’ve got to give
When giving is all we’ve really got to do
But this old world’s a masterpiece
Like tapestries from ancient Greece
So why don’t you and I release
Our love into the air?
Where it goes you know I don’t care
You know when you look up there
Love’s gonna trickle down into your soul
I’ll find you daily
Underneath the afterglow
Take me
To the city lights below
And maybe
I’m bound to find a way to get back home
But every day’s a drop of rain
That circles ‘round and down the drain
And takes away all of the pain
That everybody shows
But you find lo and behold
Let it flow down into bones
Love’s gonna trickle down into your soul
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The Age of Information
05:48
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In the age of information
I stay awake
Watching numbers tumbling angels
In the churning waves
And it steals my time
And it keeps in line
All of our lives
I found time to answer and analyze my need
But I found so little time to bleed
The stories that you tell in between the lines
And the aviator’s cruising through the satellites
And you scream out loud
Your time’s run out
What’ll you do now?
I found time to answer and analyze my need
But I found so little time to bleed
When the night’s gone cold
And the day is done
I’ll lead you on home
When the night’s gone cold
And the day is done
I’ll release you
One of these days
I’ll release you
In the age of information
I stay awake
Watching numbers tumbling angels
In the churning waves
And it steals my time
And it keeps in line
All of our lives
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The night Hank Williams died
People came out
Just to say goodbye
Until morning
And they’re mourning
The sunbeam that quit shining
And the liquor
That came to his lips
White lightning
Running through his fingertips
And the road winds forever
Right up to heaven
And I don’t mind dyin’
The night Hank Williams died
Just like the first time
I sang a lullaby
And tomorrow’s gonna be a long time
Lord knows I’m trying
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Barclay Martin Kansas City, Missouri
A blend of singer/songwriter folk, pop, and world music, his songs are a celebration of culture that could only come through
traveling the world.
Through his love of music and the gift of travel, Martin realized the role that music has to play in celebrating work that uplifts us all. Music can serve as photographs of who we are as people—it can also serve as a reminder of how connected we are.
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