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Pools That Swell With the Rain

by Barclay Martin Ensemble

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One by One 04:45
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Child, you teller of the tale That luminary sail that sails the ocean Though your soul is open Your eyes are hopeful And silent as the station of a soldier All these songs I know by heart are true The tunes you play will resonate Just like they used to do And then the rhythm rises up Reminds me of those endless days of dreaming Songs of ages carry on Then dissipate But surely leave their meaning All these songs I know by heart are true The tunes you play will resonate Just like they used to do One by one Like the petals falling down we congregate around this eloquent passage One by one we return Spring’s unending rebirth Things we cannot see become the message All these songs I know by heart are true The tunes you play will resonate Just like they used to do One by one
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Pools That Swell With the Rain 04:47
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I stand there grasping the last threads of light There’s silence although it invites the Glorious sound of the world still sleeping I dream of gazes so careless and tender A red silhouette of surrender And flashing a smile as she leans in closer Oh, this might hurt a little A blaze that bursts like the first day of winter Says it’s alright as the city’s burning I lost all that she gave me The chorus tangles my brain though I still hear Just what I wanted to Oh, my dear although you reach me I see your refection clearly There she stands alone so precious Looking beautiful and treacherous These are only desires at the start I believe that I’m breaking apart To find we’re all made up of streams of sunlight And colors tossing the currents The beauty has rendered me helpless and maybe It’s only the noise in the street Oh, my dear although you reach me I see your refection clearly There she stands alone so precious Looking beautiful and treacherous Oh, the journey is endless Surely, I’ll rise through the verses I’m flying, or maybe I’m breathing but still uncertain Saints are laughing at fables They tempt me to stand on the edges of drowning In pools that swell with the rain
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Too Many Things 03:43
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Understand these bold demands you made And still you leave me No breathing room to even move or get away Believe me, release me You're captivated by This fever, I know that you need it All I want is everything And everything is mine for a time You may find out That too many things Are tugging at the corners of your life So throw another brick around The fortress of your castle I will be the one behind go on and eat the apple Delicious, resist this Temptation to expand Your kingdom, by other good people's hand All I want is everything And everything is mine for a time You may find out That too many things Are tugging at the corners of your life The wars we wage from day to day You know won't get us near it Just accept the notion that it's easier to fear it You're reeling, you're feeling This emptiness inside You're seeking a place to escape or hide Forfeiting the future of a Father's only daughter Buying up the wine while there is poison in the water You drink it, you think it Can finally save you from The passage of time that will surely come All I want is everything And everything is mine for a time You may find out That too many things Are tugging at the corners of your life Hurricanes of silver chains Are still debating fashion Beautiful is nothing more than truth turned into passion Relentless, you're breathless To bring it to your door The message you left is, you still want more
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Dance in the Rain 03:41
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How could we know This could become Something so fine Something so everlasting You came to my life Invite me to stay I look to your eyes now I know You are the one You are the one I've never been one to live in the middle Now I'm jumping head first though it scares me a little ‘Til you call my name... I hear your voice, now all this is easy You've made a choice and you've got me believing That its all so close and Heaven knows That's how it goes My luckiest day Was saying hello Now I'll be the one To sing you a song I'll be the one To sing you a song And dance in the rain How could we know This could become Something so fine You came to my life Invite me to stay You are the one You are the one I've never been one to live in the middle Now I'm jumping head first though it scares me a little ‘Til you call my name... I hear your voice now all this is easy You've made a choice and you've got me believing That its all so close and Heaven knows That's how it goes My luckiest day Was saying hello Now I'll be the one To sing you a song I'll be the one To sing you a song And dance in the rain This is what dreams are made of You better believe what I’m saying Everybody needs someone to love Heaven knows That's how it goes My luckiest day Was saying hello Now I'll be the one To sing you a song I'll be the one To sing you a song And dance in the rain .
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Carousel 04:30
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Carousel Incendiary is the night deliver me From the common sight of These agents of illusion reign The fever of Things you can’t explain Later on After all Destroy the words Before they fall and Ordinary reciprocity I’ll conquer you if you’ll rescue me (Drowning in the circumstance That dances on / the edge of razors) I love it when you read my mind / incidents liable to unwind I consider you a saint The words that fall Before the angels Later on After all Precarious As I recall Ordinary reciprocity I’ll conquer you if you’ll rescue me Careless, sleeping dreamers wake Honest as the summer rain Beauty with a wisp of pain Two hands on the world Thinking it over The carousel turning the girl in the morning She’s falling in love with the sound Of the voices that pass Tattered designs Through light-colored roses The politics rising too high for the tightrope And isn’t it strange The way that they come back to earth? I love it when you read my mind / incidents liable to unwind Precarious the circumstance / that reaches to The plane of saviors Later on After all Destroy the words Before they fall and Ordinary reciprocity I’ll conquer you if you’ll rescue me Careless, sleeping dreamers wake Honest as the summer rain Beauty with a wisp of pain Two hands on the world Thinking it over The carousel turning the girl in the morning She’s falling in love with the sound Of the voices that pass Tattered designs Through light-colored roses The politics rising too high for the tightrope And isn’t it strange The way that they come back to earth? Incendiary is the night
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Lights & Sound 03:50
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I’ll be the boy in a story so gently heard In the theater that tellers of fables call the world Later discover its all for the love of a girl that makes me Laugh just the same I remember the day I asked you to stay Til the lights and the sound carried us home When the world is in bloom I’m soon to discover you there Brush past the mystery that seems to hang in the air Maybe we’ve started to waken our hearts as the radio sways Us to the break of day And Nature became us I ask you to stay Til the lights and the sound carry us home I’ll be the boy in a story so gently heard In the theater that tellers of fables call the world Later discover its all for the love of a girl that makes me Laugh and the folly remains Take a walk with me in the rain Where I asked you to stay Til the lights and the sound carried us home
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The Alchemist 03:41
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The Alchemist ties you up tighter Arraigned by the wires Of justice and pain And these visions of envy That brought your surrender Has everyone doing the same He’s back there mixing potions To cure your bad allegiance To a long forgotten prayer Or a night without the moon But it’s got a hold of me A shimmering and precious thing All I ever wanted was Just a little more The water flows deeper than you’ll ever know Just let go The silver thread will tow you home My God, the prize is endless The drive through blind ambition To rise above the rest So high above the hunger But it’s too dangerous to mention I’m drunk on his concoction The Alchemist, so perilous There must be something more The water flows deeper than you’ll ever know Just let go The silver thread will tow you home The Alchemist ties you up tighter Arraigned by the wires Of justice and pain And these visions of envy That brought your surrender Has everyone doing the same
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Deceiver 04:57
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Those eyes that cry in the nighttime Carry illusion about to be born Off in the distance I can hear her religion Speak of deceivers Alone in the world Signs so carefully chosen Carelessly laden along the way And from the orchard All the children are singing Songs of deceivers All through the day These are the words He uses to capture The moment’s rehearsed The people enraptured But over the course of the evening He gets steadily bolder But ever so dapper Does it make you feel lonely? Does it remind you of those who believe Over the airport on the sounds of distraction Taking it slowly It’s better to leave These are the words He uses to capture The moment’s rehearsed And the people enraptured So over he goes Sighs that stay with me always Born of the honesty Gone astray These conversations hang in the meantime It’s four in the morning There’s nothing to say Say that you’ll keep me around here Buy me some comfort, I’ll steal you away This slight of hand that carries the message Will push these deceivers to higher ground Those eyes that cry in the nighttime Carry illusion about to be born Isn’t it lovely? Is it all that you wanted? The words of deceivers That fall on the world There goes the deceiver Into the world
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Eyes of a Child 06:20
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O from over the ocean Brothers and sisters come For you I have traveled this distance I can see the future in the eyes of a child Through the length of a lifetime Here the red dirt blows wild Young and old are welcome at the doorstep I can see myself in the eyes of a child Reach out your hand and I will Reach out my heart Understand that we’re Not so far apart O from over the ocean Brothers and sisters come Feel the rhythm of the continent I can see compassion in the eyes of a child Reach out your hand and I will Reach out my heart Understand that we’re Not so far apart Eyes of a child I can see compassion in the eyes of a child I can see the future in the eyes of a child I can see my brothers and my sisters in the eyes of a child I can see myself in the eyes of a child I can see tomorrow in the eyes of a child I can see your dreams in the eyes of a child I can see your soul in the eyes of a child I can see til the morning in the eyes of a child….
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Tumbling Down 05:27
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Build me up a dream so high That I won’t ever need to draw the line With this machine I can see the world Fortunate and wounded as the earth Foreign nations and their counterparts Constellations burning in the dark And the notion within you grows To put your faith in something beautiful Beautiful, so beautiful, I don’t mind I heard somebody say Oh, I know you know that it’s over And everything’s tumbling down I know you know that it’s over And everything’s crumbling now Sentimental as a photograph Reassuring as a lady’s laugh A glimmer on the ocean swells To last another day but I can tell That it started with a raging storm Manipulations in the chemicals Doctor give me pharmaceuticals To kill my fear of things that I don’t know I don’t know, if I’ll be alright, I don’t mind I heard somebody say Oh, I know you know that it’s over And everything’s tumbling down I know you know that it’s over And everything’s crumbling now Oh, I know you know that it’s over And everything’s tumbling down I know you know that it’s over And everything’s crumbling down Dispossession of the message: You are beauty You are blessing I know where you go when you dream I know where you go when you dream Everybody goes into the places That they know To believe Oh, I know you know that it’s over And everything’s tumbling down I know you know that it’s over And everything’s crumbling now
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Wishing Well 03:44
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Like a whisper in the air Messages already there But it sounds more like a prayer And the promises we made I know all the games you play Carry me to safety ‘til I’m standing on a wishing well Darling I’m afraid to tell If its providence or else Something’s calling out my name Drop this coin into the water And if I lose my way again Will you reach out to me in vain I’m falling backwards into the night Carry me to safety til I’ll fall into the wishing well Calling to you, its alright Wish for things you left undone Say that I’m the only one Wish for you to give me wings Beauty and the simple things And it’s already begun Tattered dreamer at your door Never knew what this was for But I implore you to be kind Fortune swings along the line And there’s sunlight on the shore Drop this coin into the water And if I lose my way again Will you reach out to me in vain I’m falling backwards into the night Carry me to safety til I’ll fall into the wishing well Calling to you, its alright And I ask for the wisdom wisdom to ask for forgiveness And it grows into love and Love will teach us to listen To the sound of a whisper Whisper of souls in the distance Distance one day to bring you home Drop this coin into the water And if I lose my way again Will you reach out to me in vain I’m falling backwards into the night Carry me to safety til I’ll fall into the wishing well Calling to you, its alright
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Symphony of Pain 06:54
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The startled lies that brushed your eyes Became the overtones of your desire They made their way through limited grace Fragile, conscientious and kind Better get yourself together These are things you cannot explain You say you’re waiting for an answer But you’re writing a symphony of pain Oh my God after all you saw Cradling the questions that remain Don’t you waste your time Doing the things you think are right Believing that nothing’s ever gonna change Better get yourself together These are things you cannot explain You say you’re waiting for an answer But you’re writing a symphony of pain Tell me darling is it true When the stars align will you Make believe that you’re flying? I’ve a reason and I know There’s a better way to go It’s time we do Better get yourself together These are things you cannot explain You say you’re waiting for an answer But you’re writing a symphony of pain Writing a symphony of pain (Let me tell you there’s another way to go)
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Ordinary Designs 04:17
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So you’ve come back to recover The car keys enlaced in your lover’s apartment Feeling so close but the evening’s engrossed you While stars play Without any reason to shine Or there must be competing designs Or plans that you made but it’s never the same And then all the while she is treating you So kindly defeating you there Up on the stair But no one’s there So retrain your mind to rely On things you’ve already defied We’re all divine Ordinary designs Old men playing their bocce ball On the steps of the city hall And talking In low lamentations of things that disgraced us And all day these ladies in waiting They pray for a change in the nation They’re saying That morning will bring everything that we need And then all the while she is treating you So kindly defeating you there Up on the stair But no one’s there So retrain your mind to rely On things you’ve already defied We’re all divine Ordinary designs The rain was cascading but soon it would mention It came at you crowing with best of intentions The lessons you learned from divine intervention The perilous ghosts of the present convention

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released May 14, 2014

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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. ... more

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