Posts Tagged ‘love’
Giving Up On Love
a Post Valentine’s Day reflection on Love and how absolutely stupid it is…
(that being said I’d sign up for another dose in a minute 
) sheesh!)
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Giving Up On Love Today 11/25/08 Song #389
D G G7
I’m officially resigning from the act of pining
D D7
Emotional strip mining
G A D
I’m giving up on love today
I’m tired of the drama and the ensuing trauma
Though I voted for Obama
I’m giving up on love today.
Bm F#
Love is just a word for something that’s absurd
G D A
It seems like it’s a bird but turns out mostly turd
Bm F#
I hereby give my notice that love is mostly bogus
G D A
And so I’ll shift my focus far from it’s hocus pocus
Every time I start feel it. I know I’ll have to heal it
So go ahead and steal it
I’m giving up on love today.
Love is so damn stupid, I feel just like the new kid
On the first day of school wandering like a fool
Head stuck in the clouds oblivious to doubts
Prone to sudden bouts of…being stupid…
I don’t like roller coasters, I’d rather shop for toasters
A puppy or a poster
I’m giving up on love today…
Love is manufactured by a bunch of actors
As the chick flick credits roll away
I need a little sanity, instead of this profanity
I’m giving up on love today
Repeat first two stanzas…
Copyright 2008-2009 by Mark Shepard, All commercial rights reserved. Permission granted to reprint or share for non commercial use as long as credit is given and a link back to this post. http://www.markshepardsongs.com/2009/02/giving-up-on-love
Commentary: Yes this song IS the result of on line dating. Do you have any great online dating horror stories? If so please share in the comments section below. If you want you can even change the names to protect the “innocent”…or not )
Also, I found a great blog site Queen of Relationships she writes about dating and relationships from a woman’s perspective but as a guy I really enjoy her humor and the chance to “get inside” a woman’s head to better understand…(okay understanding is kind of hopeless but a guy can try can’t he?”
Also if you want to check out some of my less cynical love songs just go up to the categories list in the left hand sidebar and click on Love Songs. It should bring up all the Love Songs I’ve posted so far…
Plenty more in the archives to follow as well.
Thanks for listening and please feel free to share with your friends and exes!
-Mark
I Want To Soak You In
A nicely naughty song for Valentine’s Day or any other day of the year! From the “Ocean of Dreams” CD
I Want To Soak You In (#379) January 2008
I want to be the puppy
That follows you home
I want to be your own personal
Garden gnome
You be the ice cream
I’ll be the cone
I want to soak you in…
I want to be your quicker picker
Upper paper towel
I want to be the alley
Where the tom cats yowl
You be the consonants and
I’ll be the vowels
I want to soak you in…
Refrain:
I want to soak you in
I want to breathe you in like oxygen
I want to open my pores and
Absorb you through my skin…
I want to dip my bread
In your gravy baby
I want to drown a little bit
So you can save me
I want to be a piece of pie
So you will crave me
I want to soak you in
I want to be the pickle in your brine
I want to be the filthy
Thought that just crossed your mind
Baby you’re the proof
Of intelligent design
I want to soak you in…
Refrain:
I want to lap you up
Like homemade soup
I want to be the main rooster
In your chicken coop
You’re the song in my head
On an endless loop
I want to soak you in
I want to be the tub
Where you take bubble baths
I want to be the muscles
That you use to laugh
You’re the first one that I think of
When it’s time for a nap
I want to soak you in
Refrain:
I want to be the joke
That you just told me
I want to be the avocado
In your holy guacamole
Write up the order cause
You already sold me
I want to soak you in…
I want to rent a little villa in Tuscany
Where we can bask
In each other’s company
Wake up to the song
Of the birds and the bees…
I want to soak you in
Commentary: Love is supposed to be FUN! enough said eh? )
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Thanks for listening!
Mark
Falling Snow
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Falling Snow | December 15, 1995 | Song # 247
It was dark but it was not yet late
We took a walk in the falling snow
Holding your hand
Made me feel like a very rich man
And we had nowhere we had to go.
You pulled my face close
Gave me a kiss
Your nose was cold
But your lips were warm…
Time itself seemed to have stopped for us
As the world got very quiet
As we held each other
Our breath hung in the air
And we became more than we had been…
You pulled my face close
Gave me a kiss
Your nose was cold
But your lips were warm…
Days come now, swifter than e’er before
and we sometimes stand bewildered
At the days come and gone
Already turned into song
What else is there left for me to say?
You pulled my face close
Gave me a kiss
Your nose was cold
But your lips were warm…
It is dark but it is not yet late
We take a walk in the falling snow
Holding Your hand
Indeed I’m a very rich man
And we have nowhere we have to go.
You pull my face close
Give me a kiss
Your nose is cold
But your lips are warm…
© 1995-2008 by Mark Shepard, ASCAP. All Rights Reserved
Commentary: I was scheduled to perform at a Westchester Arts Council Artist in Residence Program in Yonkers, NY in December of 1995. Because it was threatening to snow, no one showed up. I was under contract to provide an hour of music so I basically sat noodling on my guitar. At some point it started to snow and even though it was only 3:30 or 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon it got really dark and the snow came down heavier and started sticking. So I kind of channeled this song imagining what it might be like for an older couple to reminisce about a romantic walk in the snow they’d taken when they were young. And then thinking back on the time that had past and now talking a walk again together and the love still being fresh and transformative. This is a song I just love to sing and though I had recorded it previously the tape it was on had gotten damaged. So in November I recorded it at Joe Mennonna’s studio in White Plains NY, not far from where I wrote it.
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Purest Form of Trance
Purest Form of Trance | 6/9/2001 | Song #314
I hate to admit it, I’m an ordinary man
I spend each day doing the best I can
I’ve come such a long way, and I have so far to go
Just like you I’ve got a couple of scars to show
Some say that it’s all about love, some say it’s all about enlightenment
And I don’t believe it’s an accident we’ve met
Refrain:
Fill my sails sweet wind of Creation
Cause Love is all about transformation
We may fear change, we may fear the status quo
We may be afraid to let our feelings show
But no one’s immune to the siren’s tune
Or the intoxicating pull of this lover’s moon
I embrace this magical distraction,
This Cabernet Sauvignon of mutual attraction
I will not deny it! I would like to try it!
How about you?
The more that I learn about love, the less that I know
Where does it come from? Where the hell does it go?
Sometimes it seems like it’s all part of some cosmic scheme,
A trick of Creation to get us to spread our genes…
Or, is it an invitation to the purest form of trance
Where miracles happen and the clumsy learn to dance?
Refrain:
Lately I’ve been learning a lot about distance…
I have no trouble being alone
I ain’t no Baryshnikov in the ballet of romance
But still I am a man of flesh and heart and bone
I am so receptive tonight to the signals that you’ve sent
That I answer you with the strength of my intent
© 2001-2008 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved
Boredom
Boredom
10/19/08 | Song #384
How many guys tonight will
Buy you drinks and tell you
Just how hot you are
But you know what they want to sell you….
Excruciating Boredom….
I’m not one of the puppies
I don’t care if you like me
Do not need your approval
Raise your bitch shield just to spite me
It just excites me…
Stop looking in the mirror
Peek outside your bubble
Buy me a beer and I will
Let you come a little nearer
Unless of course you are too boring…
Refrain:
I’m here to rescue you from boredom
I’m here to tease you into freedom…
Explore the edge of all your limits…
You know you want it. Now admit it…
You tell yourself you want somebody
Who will treat you like a lady
But what would it be like to be
With someone who took you much less seriously?…
And rescued you from boredom…
Who knows just how you’re wired
Who knows what buttons move you
Who knows just how to lead you
Where you want to go…
Escape with me from boredom…
Refrain:
You can always go suburban
Get yourself a nice safe husband
Give birth to 2 nice children
It’s a story with a happy end…
Excruciating Boredom…
I’m not the guy who you would
Take home to your family…
But when you’re in your eighties
You will remember me
And how I rescued you from boredom…
Refrain :
copyright 2008 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved
Commentary: This song was inspired by the work of Ron Louis and David Copeland, two dating coaches for men who I’ve gotten to know over the years. Ron and I have been talking for sometime about doing a workshop to help painfully shy guys clear their old fear around women programs. Basically Ron’s story is a lot like mine. He suffered from agoraphobia and eventually got fast help with NLP. I don’t know David as well but the bottom line is that these guys created a powerful home study course (which I reviewed on http://www.squidoo.com/datingapproachanxiety ) on how to have fun engaging conversations with women that build attraction through connection and disconnection. They call it “The Advanced Bad Boy Training Course” and it’s main purpose is to give the “nice” guy or the shy, nerdy man the tools to hold his own in conversation with the kinds of women who can totally destroy a guy’s self esteem in seconds.
So, true to my compulsive songwriting habit, I wrote a song from the perspective of this alpha male style approach (vs. the “nice guy” or “boring nervous bonehead” approach) that Ron and David are advocating for men.
BTW for my wonderful feminist fans, this is not in any way about manipulating, or using or taking advantage of women. This is not remotely misogynistic. It’s basically giving guys the tools to play on the same conversational playing field that women enjoy relating on. The reason you find so many of us guys dreadfully dull, boring and even creepy is that we just don’t have a clue how to actually interact with high quality women like you.
So please listen to the song and let me know what you think in the comments section below.
thanks! – Mark
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