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).
Sometimes I feel so fragile
That the merest hint of a breeze
Could pick me up and scatter me
Across the ocean of dreams…
Sometimes I cannot find
The strength to smile
And I am filled with dis-ease
Then a look from you
Could shatter me
Across the ocean of dreams
Across the ocean of dreams (X3)
Sometimes I feel like I’m made of glass
Sometimes I feel like I’m never gonna last
And I want to see you…one more time…before I go
Yes I want to see you…one more time…before I go
Across the ocean of dreams (X3)
And then I remember
As I stumble through the shards
That I assemble myself
From my dreams
And I decide what they mean…
(and it lifts me up)
Across the ocean of dreams (X3)
Sometimes I feel like I’m made of glass
And I was born To allow the light to pass
Right through me To illuminate your eyes
Let the light through me to illuminate the skies
Across the ocean of dreams (X3)
Sometimes I feel so powerful
That I can smash right through
Any obstacle that blocks my way
Or obscures what is true…
Across the ocean of dreams (X3)
Sometimes I feel like I’m made of glass
And I was born to allow the love to pass
Right through me to illuminate your eyes
Let the love through me to illuminate the skies
Let the love through me to illuminate your eyes
Let the love through me to illuminate the skies
Across the ocean of dreams
(X3 high intensity, then 1x soft and low)
Commentary: This song brings to light a process of healing and transformation that epitomizes the NLP process. It starts with a frank acknowledgment of pain and struggle. Then, in the middle of the song the very image of fragility, feeling like glass gets turned on it's head. Instead of it being about being fragile or brittle or broken it becomes a powerful thing. The ability to be transparent. Glass may be fragile but it also allows light to pass through it. So what starts out as a defeat, as a giving up song becomes a song of empowerment and victory. This song reminded me once again that the very writing process that songs emerge from is inherently healing for me. The next step ( the one that has eluded me for 30 years) is to share it congruently with other people who can get value and healing from listening or singing along.
Please share this song! You can e-mail it, or post it to social bookmarking sites or even embed it in your own blog with the little widget thingys at the top of the page.
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Ocean of Dreams by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
"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.
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