Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter
30 Years of Underground Music & Indie Songs
Just figured out how to make an audio player to play every one of the songs on Ocean of Dreams…they should play one after another all by themselves. Ain’t technology grand?
To download your free copy of Ocean of Dreams, just add your e-mail address to the from at right or below (you’ll get a secret link which will take you to a secret page where you can download all the songs or just the one’s you can’t get out of your head).
"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.
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.
To Download "A Life In Song Project" and my ENTIRE Recording Catalog FREE (including Ocean of Dreams) (For A Limited Time) simply click:
This song goes well with the post I wrote today over at www.ModernJedi.com about "Failure"
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
