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Coming Home

December 5, 2009 By

A song about healing dedicated to @Dancer30815
Please feel free to embed, email this or share the link. Give it a rating too while you’re listening! This song is from my Thirsty For The Sky CD

Coming Home 3/31/92 | Revised 9/30/02 | Song #165

Have you been stumbling through frozen winter fields,
Running from the shadows of the wounds that would not heal?
Have you been like the children who live on what they steal?
Are you open to the wisdom that your pain just might reveal?

Refrain:
It’s been a long time that I’ve been gone
It’s been a long time that you’ve been gone
It’s been a long time that we’ve been gone
I believe we’re coming Home

I invite you to a higher trance
Where the rhythms fill your body and remind you how to dance
Where healing hands can hold you and help release the hurt
Where you can re-create yourself with your thoughts and words

Refrain:

You are chosen to live within the Light
And I was born to tell you that it is yours by birthright
I may be a healer, but it’s time for you to see
You are just as much a healer, a healer as me…

Refrain: (X2)

Commentary: this song reflects work I was doing in the late 80′s and 90′s healing my life. I was struggling on many fronts. Physically, I was exhausted and seemed to be unable to digest my food properly. Emotionally I was full of anger, sadness, fear, shame…you name it I was getting clobbered by it. I could not for the life of me seem to be able to do anything significant with my music. Couldn’t perform it or sell it or market it or anything. So I began to study Energy Healing with a woman named Mearah Marqua who was one of Barbara Brennon’s first students. I studied with her and a group of other people seeking to heal their lives one weekend a month. Slowly things began to change. First of course they fell apart even more! Eventually, step by step (always taking way longer than I wanted :o ) the healing began and the thriving and joy followed. This song is dedicated to a friend of mine who found me on twitter who is recovering from a serious auto accident… please share this link with anyone you know who may need some healing support. Thanks for listening! Mark

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Gabriel’s Song of Delight

January 2, 2009 By

"November gives thanks for the harvest... December gives thanks for the Sun...January comes begging and takes something from everyone..."

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Gabriel’s Song of Delight November 1985 Song #81

Shadows dance beneath the streetlight
A stop sign quivers in the wind
The light turns green on Main Street
Giving no indication of the end…

A leaf scrapes, broken on the asphalt
A sidewalk crumbles in the cold
Young girls giggle down the avenue
Repeating what someone else was told…

Refrain:
Oh most silent night
Oh most holy night
Ancient twilight of trumpets and angels
Gabriel’s song of delight

A diesel downshifts on the evening breeze
Someone’s doing dishes downstairs
Life burns brightly through the windows
And scatters out into the falling air

Refrain:

November gives thanks for the harvest
December gives thanks for the Sun
January comes begging…
And takes something from everyone

Refrain:

© 1985-2009 by Mark Shepard. ASCAP All rights reserved.

Commentary: I was just 25 and married...My son Andrew was not even a year old. I had started my title insurance agency and was basically running it out of my bedroom...it was my first experience of business slowing down at the holidays...That January I wondered if I was going to make enough to support us...Just like this year it was the best of times and the worst of times...it was a lot of things...this is one of those songs that definitely chose me to write it.

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Thirsty For The Sky

December 19, 2008 By

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Thirsty For The Sky | 9/18/2000 | Song # 310

I’ve been dreaming of birds and leaves,
Clouds of dust and dandelion seeds
And other things that spend their time in the sky
I’ve been working on healing the hurt,
Digging myself up out of the dirt
Mending these broken wings so I can take flight

Refrain:
I feel so dangerous and I feel so alive
I get so receptive to the heavens,
So thirsty for the sky
I feel like a Peregrine Falcon,
Untamed and unbound
It’s been a long time since
I’ve had my heart on the ground

Sometimes when I am talking,
I think I’m brilliant, I think I am stalking
Some great truth but then
I realize the weakness of words…
Though I may be just a candle flame
In a universe too huge to explain
That doesn’t mean I can’t speak
My intent and be heard!

Refrain:

I release myself from the chains of fear
Climb up into the atmosphere
Learn to quiet my thoughts
So that I can see
I give myself to the calling wind
Out to where the horizon bends
Unattached and at ease I set myself free

© 2000-2008 by Mark Shepard. ASCAP. All Rights Reserved

Commentary: This is the second version of a song that originally wasn't quite so positive! Written several months before I discovered NLP, it is heavily inspired by some of the key Toltec concepts from the books of Carlos Castandea.

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