Circles

By Harvey Reid

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Lyrics:

I throw a stone into the water and I watch the circles as they grow
While holidays and birthdays leave footprints like soldiers in the snow
The flowers and the icicles are spokes in a wheel that has no end
And the passing of the seasons makes me think about circles again

The sun and the moon, circles tracing circles in the sky
While old people and children look at each other in the mirror in the eye
Like the turning of a waterwheel like the voice of a long lost friend
When I think about my old friends I think about circles again

Round and round and round in circles we spin
Over and over we end up right where we begin
Those things that never change, those things that are never the same
Though it looks like a straight road I'm traveling in circles again

These round coins in my hand there's so much I do that they ask me
What goes around will come around; there are wheels turning night & day right past me
I had a dream long ago I was hiding but a clock always found me
And now everywhere I look I see circles all around me


© 1991 by Harvey Reid (Quahog Music BMI) Used with permission of Woodpecker Records

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Biography:

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Harvey Reid has honed his craft over the last 30 years in countless clubs, festivals, streetcorners, cafes, schools and concert halls across the nation. He has been called the "renaissance man of folk music." He has absorbed a vast repertoire of American music and woven it into his own colorful, personal and distinctive style. His 13 solo albums on Woodpecker Records showcase his mastery of many instruments and styles of acoustic music, from hip folk to country, slashing slide guitar blues to bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, ragtime and classical.

Reid's skills and versatility on the guitar alone mark him as an important new voice in acoustic music. He won the 1981 National Fingerpicking Guitar Competition and the 1982 International Autoharp competition. Yet he's also a veteran musician with a long list of studio and band credits, a strong flatpicker who has won the Beanblossom bluegrass guitar contest, a versatile and engaging singer, a powerful lyricist, prolific composer, arranger and songwriter, a solid mandolin and bouzouki player, and a seasoned performer and entertainer. And he plays the 6-string banjo and the autoharp like you've never heard.

Harvey Reid maintains an extensive website, that has the lyrics, liner notes, guitar tunings and more for all of his songs.