Giving Up On Love

a Post Valentine’s Day reflection on Love and how absolutely stupid it is…

(that being said I’d sign up for another dose in a minute :o ) sheesh!)

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Giving Up On Love Today 11/25/08 Song #389

D                               G                  G7
I’m officially resigning from the act of pining
D             D7
Emotional strip mining
G                      A     D
I’m giving up on love today

I’m tired of the drama and the ensuing trauma
Though I voted for Obama
I’m giving up on love today.

Bm                            F#
Love is just a word for something that’s absurd
G                                     D                       A
It seems like it’s a bird but turns out mostly turd
Bm                                    F#
I hereby give my notice that love is mostly bogus
G                                      D                      A
And so I’ll shift my focus far from it’s hocus pocus

Every time I start feel it. I know I’ll have to heal it
So go ahead and steal it
I’m giving up on love today.

Love is so damn stupid, I feel just like the new kid
On the first day of school wandering like a fool
Head stuck in the clouds oblivious to doubts
Prone to sudden bouts of…being stupid…

I don’t like roller coasters, I’d rather shop for toasters
A puppy or a poster
I’m giving up on love today…

Love is manufactured by a bunch of actors
As the chick flick credits roll away
I need a little sanity, instead of this profanity
I’m giving up on love today

Repeat first two stanzas…

Copyright 2008-2009 by Mark Shepard, All commercial rights reserved. Permission granted to reprint or share for non commercial use as long as credit is given and a link back to this post. http://www.markshepardsongs.com/2009/02/giving-up-on-love

Commentary: Yes this song IS the result of on line dating. Do you have any great online dating horror stories? If so please share in the comments section below. If you want you can even change the names  to protect the “innocent”…or not :o )

Also, I found a great blog site Queen of Relationships she writes about dating and relationships from a woman’s perspective but as a guy I really enjoy her humor and the chance to “get inside” a woman’s head to better understand…(okay understanding is kind of hopeless but a guy can try can’t he?”

Also if you want to check out some of my less cynical love songs just go up to the categories list in the left hand sidebar and click on Love Songs.  It should bring up all the Love Songs I’ve posted so far…

Plenty more in the archives to follow as well.

Thanks for listening and please feel free to share with your friends and exes!

-Mark

Happy Birthday

happy birthday! From Mark Shepard

Play the song here. Download it free and share it with someone you love:

Happy Birthday Song | November, 2007 |  Song # 373

Refrain:
Happy Birthday we love you
And may all your dreams come true
As the sun burns off the dew
May your world shine ever new

Another year has come and gone
So many nights so many dawns
Our time is short to sing this song
But our love is long

Refrain:

Here’s a toast to all who live
Who come to life with gifts to give
And here’s a toast to all who’ve passed
Before us on this path

Refrain:

Let us celebrate your start
With love and joy in all our hearts
Every breath leads Home again
Happy birthday my sweet friend

Refrain:

Creative Commons License
Mark Shepard's Happy Birthday by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Commentary: Originally wrote this song in November when my daughter Tia and several friends of mine have birthdays. I'm posting on my sister's 50th Birthday, which a Friday the 13 in February. It turns out to be a very lucky thing to be born on a Friday the 13th. Happy Birthday Lynn!

Please share this song with someone you love on their next birthday!  You can download it and play it everywhere you go! :o ) Every moment is a gift. And the ride is too short for all there is to see and do and experience. Seize the day!

I Want To Soak You In

A nicely naughty song for Valentine's Day or any other day of the year! From the "Ocean of Dreams" CD
I want to be the puppy that follows you home!

I Want To Soak You In (#379) January 2008

I want to be the puppy
That follows you home
I want to be your own personal
Garden gnome
You be the ice cream
I’ll be the cone
I want to soak you in…

I want to be your quicker picker
Upper paper towel
I want to be the alley
Where the tom cats yowl
You be the consonants and
I’ll be the vowels
I want to soak you in…

Refrain:
I want to soak you in
I want to breathe you in like oxygen
I want to open my pores and
Absorb you through my skin…

I want to dip my bread
In your gravy baby
I want to drown a little bit
So you can save me
I want to be a piece of pie
So you will crave me
I want to soak you in

I want to be the pickle in your brine
I want to be the filthy
Thought that just crossed your mind
Baby you’re the proof
Of intelligent design
I want to soak you in…

Refrain:

I want to lap you up
Like homemade soup
I want to be the main rooster
In your chicken coop
You’re the song in my head
On an endless loop
I want to soak you in

I want to be the tub
Where you take bubble baths
I want to be the muscles
That you use to laugh
You’re the first one that I think of
When it’s time for a nap
I want to soak you in

Refrain:

I want to be the joke
That you just told me
I want to be the avocado
In your holy guacamole
Write up the order cause
You already sold me
I want to soak you in…

I want to rent a little villa in Tuscany
Where we can bask
In each other’s company
Wake up to the song
Of the birds and the bees…
I want to soak you in

Commentary: Love is supposed to be FUN! enough said eh? :o )

Please share this song with other open minded, passionate, sensual, intelligent People!
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Thanks for listening!

Mark