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Happy Birthday

February 13, 2009 By

happy birthday! From Mark Shepard

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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

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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!

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Street People

February 6, 2009 By

Photo from Bold Street Project

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Street People  |  March 1978 | Song #15

Come into the silence of the crowded street
There are some faces I'd like you to meet
The ones that look like locked doors
Concealing what's inside
The ones who don't reveal to you
The music of their minds
That man knows his beer glass
Like a jeweler knows his jewels
Another man knows his empty pockets
Like a school boy knows his rules
And the young man who just passed us now
Is searching for a friend
Who understands his solitude
And knows how to make it end...

Refrain:
Stand inside the echoes
Of this cold concrete
It's like an ever moving photograph
Never to be complete
Hold the silence in your hand
Feel that it is wise
Assemble all your senses
and place them in your eyes

That girl knows the sidewalk
Like a songbird knows its cage
She's a year from home and tired
Of lying about her age
The business men who know her best
Don't know her very well
They're too caught up inside themselves
With what she has to sell

Refrain:
Stand inside the echoes
Of this cold concrete
It's like an ever moving photograph
Never to be complete
Hold the silence in your hand
Feel that it is wise
Assemble all your senses
and place them in your eyes

See the old man with the spaniel dog?
He loves it like a son
And sometimes in his room at night
He dreams that he is young
Some "victim of society" just stole a lady's purse
He eats the ground with his strong legs
And accelerates in bursts...

Refrain:
Stand inside the echoes
Of this cold concrete
It's like an ever moving photograph
Never to be complete
Hold the silence in your hand
Feel that it is wise
Assemble all your senses
and place them in your eyes

© Mark Shepard 1978-2008. All rights reserved.

Commentary: Pretty self explanatory. I just wrote it as I saw it in my mind's eye. Any photographers out there willing to collaborate with me on a slide show or video for this?

As always, please share this post and help me get these songs out into the ears of people who might appreciate them! Thanks! - Mark

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Stand Tall

January 27, 2009 By

This song goes well with the post I wrote today over at www.ModernJedi.com about "Failure"

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Stand Tall |  Fall 2003, Winter 2004, Fall 2004 | Song #340

A rainy day and it’s not yours
You had to face a few slammed doors
So you sit and hang your head (wondering how to earn some bread)
Was it something someone said?
Or is it a picture in your head?
Was it a feeling in your gut
Was it an open door you imagined shut
You decide.

Refrain:
Stand tall. Force a grin. Forget the loss and count the win
Hold fast. Dig down deep. First you sow and then you reap
Look up. Breathe it in. You’ve got the gold of Solomon
Look left, Look right. Brighten up your inner light

When did you decide to lose?
Don’t you know we always choose
To retreat or to go forward
To move away or to move towards
So pick yourself up off the boards
Give yourself an award
You gave it your best shot and now it’s time to dig down deep
And pull out just a little more, pull out just a little more.
You decide.

Refrain:

What just changed? Not the world, the world’s the same
You just rearranged your perception
You shifted your focus and in the process chose to let go of some old pain.
That’s right! Take it, shrink it down, fade it out, push it far away and Let it go!
Rearrange it into something you can learn from.
Now you know. And it just goes to show…
It’s lost its power over you hasn’t it?
And every thought has become a friend
Like the cripple throwing a way his crutch or
The shy kid reaching out his hand
And looking you right in the eye with an open smile and warmly inviting you to dance…It’s the shy kid inviting you to dance...
You decide. You decide.

© 2004-2009 by Mark Shepard ASCAP All Rights Reserved

commentary: I wrote this song at a time when I was really struggling just to get by even though I had invested thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in learning NLP specifically so that I would be able to break through the junk that was holding me back. Little did I know at the time that I was "deep in the process" of learning and practicing tools and techniques that would enable me to "hang in there" and eventually get back to my original "purpose" which was to share my 30 years of original songs with people who would not only appreciate them but who would benefit from the songs, the story as well as the NLP concepts and techniques...

Please share this with your friends and loved ones.

all the best! - Mark

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