Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter
30 Years of Underground Music & Indie Songs
Thought you might enjoy a little “nature music” these Spring peepers were singing their hearts out right near where I’ve been staying this week in CT. listen with headphones and you can hear the rain as well. Enjoy! (and yes, there is a song in the works that is inspired by these little guys…)
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In the new play I'm working on with Playwright Jill Jaysen, and Dr. Jennifer Wider (working title: "BeautyFull") there is a moment when Iris realizes that the "One-Derfull" Kingdom of Konformity isn't all it's advertised. This is the song she sings at that transformational moment.
Please Note: Listen with headphones! (It makes a difference really!)
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Lyrics:
I want to go home.
Where the faces are friendly
Where I don’t feel like an enemy behind the lines
I want to go home
Where songs are still sung
By kids allowed to play outside in the sun
I want to go home
Where sunflowers bloom
And there’s plenty of room to stretch out and run
Refrain:
I want to go home
I want to go home
Where helium balloons still escape
From the hands of small children at the firemen’s parade
I want to go home
Where you can watch them fly
Up into the sky and finally out of sight
Refrain:
I want to go home.
Where the porch rocking chair creaks
and fireflies blink on muggy summer nights
I want to go home
Where it’s not against the law to think
And you’re free to wonder at the speed of light
Bridge:
Where the don’t tell you who you’re supposed to be
Where they don’t sell you the version of you
That everyone else is supposed to see
Refrain:
I want to go home
Where your spirits are lifted
And everyone’s gifted with creativity
I want to go home
If we all insisted that it really existed
Maybe it would come to be?
I Want To Go Home by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
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For Marylynn
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Lyrics:
Your hands. Making dinner
My hands playing guitar
Your cat chasing rubber bands
Oh my Love, we’ve come so far…
And everything that brought us here
now takes us where we want to go
Go with me. On a journey
Stay with me. Right here at home
Your heart is in my pocket
My heart is in your hands
And everything that brought us here
Now takes us where we want to go
Refrain:
Come with me to our awakening
Can you feel our connection strengthening?
Have you noticed the days are lengthening
With the coming of the spring?
No words. Need be spoken
Love lights up the room
And mends what’s been broken
Winter passes. Flowers bloom
And everything that brought us here
Now takes us where we want to go
Refrain:
Ecstasy fills this moment
Steadily the candle burns
Shadows dance into enlightening
Persevering till the dawn returns
And everything that brought us here
Now takes us where we want to go
Refrain:
Remember now all that’s joyful
Gazing deep into each other’s eyes
Letting go of the struggle…
Why is love so wise?
And everything that brought us here
Now takes us where we want to go
Your Hands by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
