Raven Had A Conversation With The Moon

October 28, 2008 By Mark

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Raven Had a Conversation With the Moon

12/20-22/2007 |

Song #377

Raven had a conversation with the moon
He asked her “is there a certain tune
I can sing to convince the sun to return
Without getting my feathers burned?”

one …..To…..One….two…..to…..One

Raven was having dinner with a lovely crow
He said, “There are things that we both know but we don’t know how we know, and furthermore there is no such thing as a ‘coincidence’”
And she knew right then that he wanted to get into her…

one …..To…..One….two…..to…..One

Raven had an appointment with a dream
He told her “we are more than what we seem
Perception is projection if you get the drift of what I mean
Let the parts come together without a single seam…

one …..To…..One….two…..to…..One

Raven demanded an answer from the air
I can’t see you so how do I know you’re really there?
And instead of giving an evasive or defensive reply,
She simply… rolled her eyes

one …..To…..One….two…..to…..One

Raven had an argument with the wind
Can you tell me where you begin and where I end?
Are you my lover or just more than a friend?
To which the wind said “baby now that all depends….”

one …..To…..One….two…..to…..One

Raven, had a discussion with a dove
You are of the same stuff that I’m made of
But you are white and I’m black, you are yin to my yang
And he closed his eyes and opened up his heart as he sang

one …..To…..One….two…..to…..One

Raven had a conversation with the moon
He asked her “is there a particular tune
I can sing to convince the sun to go away
She looked at him and said…”not today.”

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She Prefers the Company of Wolves and Crows

October 27, 2008 By Mark

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She Prefers the Company of Wolves and Crows

(She Does Not Need You)

#378 January 2008

She prefers the company of wolves and crows
She knows the world nose to nose
She is feral, fierce and unafraid of lightening
She wears a different disguise at every sighting
She can taste you at some distance on the breeze
And with one look release you from your dis-ease
She will shout at you to get you to breathe
For your own sake learn to breathe!

She does not need you x3

She can paint you into or out of your existence
What you call intelligence is merely resistance
She demands that you abandon your defenses
See the world through a brand new pair of lenses
She is warrior, healer, mystic, daughter, mother, lover, sister
She is the magical entrance to this world where we are visitors
She’ll break your heart open and you will howl with joy and wonder
She will then offer your spirit up to the thunder...

She does not need you x3

She would prefer it if you turned off all the lights
Make friends with your shadow in the gathering of twilight
Remove your shoes for the ground you walk on is holy
The ground is as Holy as it is muddy
She is not interested in your opinion
She will never submit to your dominion
But she does invite you to dance until you drop
The old routines that caused you to stop…

She does not need you x3:

We are running out of time
Move your body, change your mind
Plug yourself into the divine
And maybe she will give you a sign
Surrender to the force of her persuasion
Her wildness has a certain contagion
She dares you to cross the vital threshold
Do it now before you are too old

She does not need you x3

Learn More About Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

Explore Your Wild Side

Women Who Run With The Wolves

Commentary:
December of 2007 I was hanging out with a wild woman archetype in the flesh, Lesley Roy. Artist, entrepreneur, designer, former model...founder of the Corvus Art Center in New Haven, CT. Champion of the art of Dr. Ala Bashir...

To make a long story short, Lesley Roy was working on a series of paintings inspired by Women Who Run With the Wolves. It just happens to be one of my favorite books and sources as a storyteller. The Silkie story, I turned into a song. Skeleton Woman I adapted from several other versions.

So Leslie Roy challenged me to write a series of songs to go with her paintings.

This is one of them.

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Andrew

October 26, 2008 By Mark

September 1977, Song # 8

Glancing around the overflowing room,
Andrew shoves his hands deep into the pockets of his jeans
Clenches his fist around some loose change jingling
He knows that he's a failure at small talk and mingling
So he leans against a helpful wall feeling out of tune
And deep inside he knows he's different yeah, much different than he seems
And he's always looking for a girl to know him
Talking to himself, the best and only pal he has
All about how she will be a friend, not a lover
But Andrew needs to love her
Andrew wants a lover...

But time does come for him to go home
He knows he's safe inside the headphones...

the teacher always has to call his name a second time
And he mumbles when he answers and the answer always seems to have slipped his mind
and he's far beyond the classroom walls in his drifting chin-on-hand wonderland
It's something that no one will ever be able to understand.
Cuz he's always looking for a girl to know him
Talking to himself, the best and only pal he has
All about how she will be a friend, not a lover
But Andrew needs to love her
He really wants a lover...

Yet the time does come for him to go home
He knows he's safe inside the headphones

Just before the sun lets itself down
It breaks through the clouds and gives the hills a liquid crown
Andrew's on his way back from the depths of town
Slaps his Keds into the dust of the road with a conscientious frown
And he's always looking for a girl
Looking for a girl to know him
Talking to himself, the best and only pal he has
All about how she will be a friend, not a lover
But Andrew needs to love her
He really wants to love her.

he's looking for a girl to really know him
looking for a girl to be his best friend
looking for a girl to be his love
looking for a girl to replace his mother
looking for girl to be his lover
looking for a girl to be his best friend...

But time comes for him to go home
He knows he's safe inside the headphones...

Commentary: Definitely described me as a teenager...totally awkward, in my own world. I'd come home from school and basically disappear into the headphones. I was listening more to Queen, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and other 70's singer/songwriter types where the lyrics mattered. As far as dating went...didn't really know how to ask a girl out but wanted to. Afraid to pick up the phone. lonely. and definitely screwed up by wanting a best friend or a lover but not getting that at age 16 it's like not supposed to be a big deal. Wouldn't re-live that crap for anything. Not a bad song though for a 16 year old songwriter huh? Still blows my mind to hear it. - Mark

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