Mark Shepard: A Life In Song

Posts Tagged ‘acoustic music’

A love song…anybody got a picture that would go with this? Let me know in the comments below.

What Would it Be Like? | Song # 349 |Jan. – Feb. 2006

What would it be like to be your lover
And have the love we make fill up the day?
What would it be like to make you “suffer”
In the most intimately pleasurable way?

What would it be like to kiss your fingers
More thoroughly than they’ve been kissed before?
What would it be like to be the singer
Whose voice and words touch you to your core?

Refrain:
I want to touch you, I want to fill your mind
I want to break your resistance open wide
I want to focus you and breathe you up my spine
Beyond the petty cages of our lives
Beyond the confines

What would it be like to share a secret
With a simple look across a crowded room?
What would it be like to cross the threshold
On a winter’s night illumined by the moon?

What would it be like to make you dinner
And to knead your aching muscles for dessert?
What would it be like to kiss your temples
And soothe away your troubles without words?

Refrain:

Bridge:
Beyond the confines of who we used to be
Out to the edges of our sensuality
Where a man and a woman can set each other free…

What would it be like to touch your shoulder
In a way that turns you totally a round
What would it be like to whisper something
In your ear so softly there’s no sound?

What would it be like to paint your picture
To memorize the features of your face
What would it be like to take you walking
And show you something new, some secret place

Refrain:

What Would It Be Like by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Please leave a comment below! thanks – Mark

This was recorded live in April of 2006 at Watering Pond Yoga Studios in Guilford, CT. Thanks again to Dorothy Cochran & Michael Bowers for all your support!

Rain On A Tin Roof | Song #101 | April 1988

Lull me to sleep like a warm Spring rain
on a tin roof darling
Rise and shine to the clean dawn tune
of the Robins and Starlings

I’m getting that feeling like I’m gonna want
to live forever
And I’d kind of like to know
If we could spend that time together…

Refrain:(X2)
Hey oh, Hey ah
Hey oh, Hey ah
Hey oh, Hey ah

I want to dream with you
Like a rock, like a roll, like a river ride
Can’t you see that being with you
Is something rarefied?

You are the distant jet plane
Flash of light across dark skies
You are the wind of my love
You are the sight of my eyes

Refrain:

I was gonna bring you bacon and eggs
and English Muffins in bed
But I started singing in the shower
So I wrote this song for you instead

Hope you don’t mind but singing about you
Makes me feel so fine
And the rain on the tin roof
Drums along and hums along in time

Refrain:

Commentary: This is one of my all time favorite songs to perform live because it’s easy for audiences to sing along. It’s also one of those classic “feel good” songs that can help to shift a person into a place of hope and optimism. Let me know what you think in the comments below!

Rain On A Tin Roof by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Here’s how to get my “Ocean of Dreams” album (and a huge number of other songs) FREE!

“Ocean of Dreams” consists of every single song I wrote during 2008 in chronological order. It’s an all acoustic project so you can hear the songs in their raw, “un-produced” state recorded in pristine digital sound at Joe Mennonna’s studio.

I’ve sneak released a few of the songs here on the blog in the past few months but if you want the whole thing and in much higher quality than what you can download here, you will want to get this now.

For a limited time it’s FREE. Yes. Free. 13 digitally mastered original songs instantly down-loadable to your computer. fer nothin’. Nada. Zip. Zilch. FREE, FREE, FREE. (I think you get the idea huh?)

Soon though, I’ll be adding it to the the catalog at $20 (okay probably more like $15)  So get it now.

Here’s how it works.

Get your Backstage Pass by clicking  Get Your Free BackStage Pass NOW! , fill out the little form and you’ll have access to ALL of my songs free. Not just Ocean of Dreams.

Once you are a backstage pass member, and logged in, you can go to the members tab on the menu bar above and use the drop down menus to find the treasure. Ocean of dreams is in Life In Song 2008.

1. Zoooooom!
2. It’s like an unexpected Birthday present.

Thanks again for caring enough about this music to give it a listen. I know you’ll love it. Everyone who’s heard it so far is raving about it. One of the first folks to get it said this:

I Just wanted to let you know that I have listened and think it is awesome!!! Sincerely, Maria

Your friend,

Mark

P.s.  the CD has been exquisitely mastered and sounds way better than your little computer speakers can handle so make sure you listen with the headphones.

Hey Everybody,

I know it’s a bit last minute but HAY! Spontaneity is the spice of life.

Just got word that I’ll be performing tomorrow, Saturday, January 24, 2009 at my favorite Starbucks in downtown New Haven, CT. It’s the Starbucks on the corner of High St and Chapel across from the Yale Museum of British Art and the Yale Art Gallery.

I start my first set at 8 PM and I would love to see any and all of you who are in the New Haven area!

Here’s a couple of clips from my last gig…

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and pull up a comfy chair on Sunday November 23rd from 2-4 pm. You’re invited to join me  as I do my first “open to the public” concert in over 2 years.

The Space is a small, vibrant performing arts venue that is perfect for the intimate kind of music I do. There’s plenty of parking and it’s easy to get to.

Bonus! The first 20 people to register online will receive a CD of 13 of my best songs FREE!

Admission is $20 in advance / $25 at the door.

Concert Location: “The Space” 295 Treadwell St., Building H, Hamden CT 06514 203-288-6400

Get Directions To The Space

You’re gonna have fun! But don’t take my word for it!

Hear a song from my last Public Performance 4/8/06:

 

 Narcissism Live Performance 4/8/06: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download