Song # 2 in the Life In song Project, Welcome To Where You Are was written on a Youth Group retreat…I was having a personal spiritual crisis at the time and was finding the whole Christian belief system a little bit hard to…um… believe. My fellow youth group kids and I had also discovered smoking pot…so you’ll get some references to that in this song as well. And Finally to this day I do not understand why this was my mother’s favorite song. Of all the songs I’ve written since, this is the one she loved the most… she never seemed to get that it was a cry for help. Oh well. the moral of the story for you older folks with kids? Pay ATTENTION dammit! Hope you enjoy this song as much as my mom did.
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Welcome To Where You Are | Song #2 | January 1977
I’d like to welcome you to where you are
Needless to say the door is always ajar…
I’d like to tell you where I am today
I’ll say it now before it slips…away…
I’m something else besides that person over there
I’m something else besides the face I wear…
I am the empty hallways
Filled with Empty sound
I am the lonely seeker,
A case of lost not found
But there amidst the bitterness
There is a word that sings of you
There is a word that sings of me
That word is “We”
Refrain:
We are the ones who gain and lose
We fight the battles, get the blues
We are the stones of all foundations
We are the lost generations
We are appointed by some knowing force
To occupy the chairs held now by ghosts
Others will follow when their time has come
It’s all the same for everyone
Wasted is the kindness of the host
While our groping minds soon are number
From the sight of what we have become…
We’re something else beside “those people over there”
We’re something else besides the labels that we bear
We are the empty churches
Filled with empty prayer
We are our mother’s son’s
Choking in despair
We stand alone amidst our burned out lives
And you don’t see to care…
That we once cared.
Refrain:
And you don’t seem to care that we once cared…
Standard Tuning
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Welcome To Where You Are by Mark Shepard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
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