Barbara Smith
Singer-Songwriter
A Girl A Poem and A Guitar
I think of this album like it's a little Coffee House or Kitchen Concert. All of the songs were recorded live, mixed and produced by me. I added some ambient sounds to enhance the intimacy. All songs were mastered at Haggarty Sound Studio in Peterborough.
Live life fully
Seek her lessons
Stay humble
Stay open
Let others in
~Barb
Island Mermaid
(Written 8 years ago to one of the
strongest women I know, my sister)
Island Mermaid Cayo Men
Ocean breeze sun-kissed by sand
Crush your fate with your dreams
You were always swimmin' up
The main stream
Island Mermaid Cayo Men
Ocean breeze sun-kissed by sand
Nurture strong heart alone
Builds onto itself
Like a steppin' stone
Island Mermaid Cayo Men
Ocean breeze sun-kissed by sand
A select few on your inside track
With no judge or jury
You don't think like that
Island Mermaid Cayo Men
Ocean breeze sun-kissed by sand
Sister you stand inside my skin
Wine talk as the night settles in
Coffee talk let the next day begin
Ocean Mermaid Cayo Men
Ocean breeze sun-kissed by sand
You know you are my best friend
You're the Island Mermaid
Til the end
It Comes In Threes
(When a Loved One dies, they are near...
just on the other side in The After Life,
waiting for you)
~Every tear shed then find one more
Waltz and dance to God's front door
Circle round closer as the Angels grow bold
Your whispering Truth it will always be told
You are The Gold
It Comes in Threes
Won't you please come to me?
Blind in Life you finally see
Comfort us all
From the Great Wall Beyond
How would we know
To even answer your call?
You catch Us All
~A mix of bad things that happened to me
I covered my head but I could not be free
A shout out for help was anyone there?
Came back the answer all ways you cared
With memories shared
~Alone at last for all time
You finally sing God's Perfect Rhyme
A quick look back for the Last Amen
A whispering Prayer it will all start again
I'll find you My Friend
Never End
You catch our Fall
You catch our Fall
You catch Us All
Magical Mystery Voice
(As life is a mysterious mixture of amazing and tragic, it's power lies
within you)
Why are all the things I lost
The things I like the most?
The things on my periphery
Are the things that have a ghost
Buried deep beneath this host
Buried deep within this host
When you understand somethin' deeply
You love long and hard
From that depth you are
From this world barred
Unrecognizable and charred
Unrecognizable and scarred
Wonky times in a world
Where you got it wrong
World may need a little more
Than a prayer and a song
Come on Go Come on
Smoke your bong
Come on Keep on keepin' on
You stay strong
Forever how long
Find the music miracle
That magical mystery voice
Healing you with truth and love
Only you can make that choice
It's time to use your voice
It was always your own voice
Time to Rejoice
The Story of You and Me
(If you find your Soulmate when you are young, you are twice as lucky)
Say it with heart
Say it with grace
Say it with everything
Written on your face
We are for real
We are The Truth
We are undeniable proof
That this Love
Is our Destiny
In The Story
Of You
And Me
Shadow From Above
(Get right with your God before
you go)
The Winds calm my Soul
The Alpines have my back
The fortune tellers they know
I am on the right track
For there's nothing worth feeling
If you are not right in step
With the shadow from above
Below, I never met
Running Away
(One foot in front of the other)
~Everybody knows we are bound
By the things we want to change
There are the things that are a mystery
Those things unknown Keep us in the game
~There is a life lived easily
Against a life lived hard
There is that love for which we yearn
You can't escape so drop your guard
Time to stop Running Away
I will stop Running Away
I know you are no magician
There is nothing up your sleeve
But your charms that will protect me
Make it possible To Believe
~What I thought I shoulda 'bin
Trying so hard to not be last
But what I learned is that I was
The last one standing in my class
~What I know now is I know nothing
What I crawl out from won't take me under
I will always grow with you
You are my heart I am your thunder
I know I am no magician
There is nothing up my sleeve
But my charms that will protect you
Make it possible To Believe
Time to stop Running Away
I will stop Running Away
I will stay
ButterFly Eyes
(If you know someone suffering from intimate partner violence, help them)
Behind your ButterFly Eyes
Clouds of endless black sky
Where you dream up your next disguise
To escape your little white lies
You plunder You crush
And you pillage
No one is ever safe
In your village
Behind your Butterfly Wings
You sweep all of your nasty things
So you don't see what is happening
One by one you cut my heart strings
You plunder You crush
And you pillage
No one is ever safe
In your village
No one escapes from your village
All songs can be found at the above, plus all other streaming platforms.