Mark Shepard: Singer Songwriter

Your Hands

March 28, 2010 By Mark

For Marylynn

Audio only:

Lyrics:

Your Hands | Song #411 | 2/21/2010

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

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Filed Under: Love Songs Tagged With: Love Songs

What Would It Be Like

October 28, 2009 By Mark

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:

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Please leave a comment below! thanks - Mark

Filed Under: Love Songs, Uncategorized Tagged With: a life in song, acoustic music, Love Songs, Mark Shepard, tantra

Rain On A Tin Roof (Live)

October 13, 2009 By 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.