“Life In Song” #24: Partners of Balance was the first song I wrote at SUNY Purchase (now called Purchase College). It’s a love song. I was just primed to fall in love. That’s what you do your first Fall at college right? Fall in love. Get it? Fall. In Love. Well she never got the memo! But it’s all good! This song still feels good to sing and it just might apply to your life. Am I right? As far as I know this is the only place I’ve ever recorded this. PRESERVATION baby! That’s what the Life in Song project is all about. Thanks for watching/listening. – Mark
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Partners of Balance | September 1978 | Song #24
There is future in both of us
And exit signs at every door
And things we’ve never said before
And feelings that could someday mature
I met you on this side of somewhere
With thoughts escaping from your eyes
Of lighted darkness and melted ice
And visions of a private paradise
Refrain:
We are the gathering of Spirit
The touchers of silence
The drinkers of beauty
We are the wind and the tall grass
The partners of balance,
We are the sky and the sea
There’s Creation in both of us
The gift to give and to receive
That inner longing that must be relieved
In music, paint or the touching of sleeves
There is autumn in your hair
The scents and colors present all around
Of Bittersweet and thistledown
Contrasting with the oak leaves’ reddish brown
Refrain:
There is living in both of use
Thought at times we surely think of death
I’m pretty sure our time has not come yet
Though I would hesitate to place a bet
But even if the exit signs are there
No force can take from us the things we’ve shared
Refrain:
Tuning: GGDGAD
“Partners of Balance” by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
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