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April 18, 2015 · Break Up Songs, Empowerment Songs, Freedom Songs, Life In Song 2000's, Love Songs, Non-Attachment, Running Away Songs, Songs of Transformation

388 Do The Right Thing

3001145_sYes there is a serious STORY behind this song. I will share it privately with the first person who pays me $100 bucks! LOL

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Do The Right Thing

Song #388 | 11/18/08-12/2/08 | CD: Ocean of Dreams

Don’t pay another dime on the fine
Cause you’ve done your time
Trying to be kind
Open up your eyes to the lies
But don’t be surprised
If you realize
How great a price you’ve paid….
For the promises you made…
For the promises you made

When you sell your soul
There’s a black hole
Sucking you down
Tossing you a line would be fine
If you didn’t mind
Leaving behind
The notion that you know the way…
The ocean is beyond the bay…
The ocean is beyond the bay

Refrain:
Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing and Save Yourself
Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing, and Maybe I can Help
Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing, Do the Right Thing…

You know you got to change
Got to Rearrange the way
That you explain
All of the pain and the strain and what remains
After the rage
Leaves you whole and clear
Baby face the fear…
Baby face the fear

Refrain:

Who you gonna be, what you gonna see
When You get yourself free?
Rising like a bird, leave the herd and the hurt and the shame
And the greed
Not another day, not a single hour
Take back your power…
Take back your power!

Refrain:

Open up your mind, open up your heart
Leave the past behind
Open up the blinds, step up to the start
Read all the signs
It’s time to face the gale
And raise every sail… raise every sail

Refrain:

Don’t pay another dime on the fine
Cause you’ve done your time
Trying to be kind
Open up your eyes to the lies
But don’t be surprised
If you realize
How great a price you paid….
For the promises you made…
For the promises you made

Refrain:

Copyright 2008-2015 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.

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Filed Under: Break Up Songs, Empowerment Songs, Freedom Songs, Life In Song 2000's, Love Songs, Non-Attachment, Running Away Songs, Songs of Transformation

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Never fails to move me…

Your incredible music never fails to move me. Thank you, Mark.

Paula

Total awesomeness!!!

‘Let’s Run’ is MY FAVORITE so far.. I LOVE THIS ONE.. great job.. total awesomeness!!! I thank Jana Stanfield for introducing me to your gifts. I am grateful.

Merril

Love your lyrics!

Love your music! Love your lyrics!

Robin Bridgeford

I Love listening to all your songs…

Mark, you really are an amazing songwriter! I Love listening to all your songs and sitting in the creative aura they create!

Cheri

Just awesome…

Your music is taking over my life and it’s awesome!

Eric

Your song was just perfect to start my day…

Mark, your song ‘Freedom (It’s Been  Long Road)’ was just perfect to start my day. I LOVE IT!  Thank you, Thank you.  Blessings to you and much gratitude for your musical gift.

Judy

Brilliant!

Brilliant! I LOVE seeing the words to all these beloved songs, thanks!

Mary F.

Been singing the chorus since the first day I heard it…

I sh*t you not when I say I’ve been singing the chorus to Honest Rock since the first day I heard it. I sing this every single day. Many times a day. Seriously. It’s like a mantra to me. It soothes me:-)

Gene Moore

You have put a grown man in tears…

Mark, this song and message really hit home for me today. You have put a grown man in tears. Thank You for what you do. Sometimes I think you sound kind of cheesy, and then others, I think you are a genius, and I’m beginning to realize that you actually care about helping people. So hard to “get out of your own way” sometimes…thanks for the reminder.

Jeremy

You write some great songs!

Hi Mark, You write some great songs! I really enjoyed listening to all of them on Spark and Flame. Thank you for all that you do. Keep up the good work! All the best.

Susan

Love the “Key To Your Cage” album…

Love the “Key To Your Cage” album. I hear so many different influences and styles woven throughout the songs, really keeps it interesting from start to finish!

Dan Z

They love (your song) and ask to listen to it, ALWAYS.

My name is Cecile. I teach kindergarten at OMSD. I had the pleasure of using your song Together We Can Change The World to help my students make a difference in this wonderful world! They love it and ask to listen to it, ALWAYS.

Cecile Arvizo

Your lyrics embody everything we hold sacred…

Your lyrics embody everything we hold sacred and dear as a faith community.

Gina Sullivan, Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph

I loved the song and listened to it 3 times….

Hi Mark, I just had to tell you this. I emailed my 3 granddaughters the song you wrote who are sisters with the youngest being 11 years old, has cerebral palsy and is very smart, is able to talk, very funny, uses a computer, is able to write, now is learning to play drums, emails me ‘Thanks. I do.’ I loved the song and listened to it 3 times.

Gail Russ

For me these songs are transformational lessons in self-love…

Dear Mark, THANK YOU for sending *Spark & Flame*!!!! This CD certainly is a compilation of Conscious Love Songs! As I listen I am transported to memory after memory past, present and future, fulfilled and unfulfilled. I was flooded with many different emotions. I cried, laughed, held my breath and also breathed deep heart-centered breaths of connection to the Divine. I feel joy, grief, sadness, compassion, love, awe, freedom, kindness, gratitude and appreciation. For me these songs are transformational lessons in self-love, releasing, acceptance for what was, what is and who I am. Knowing that I am enough and that I am Divinely Loved.

J

Enjoying your songs so much…

Hello Mark. I am enjoying your songs so much! I’d love to see you play live somewhere.

Marianne

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