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Summer Storm (America The Beautiful) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

March 19, 2022 · 2022 MUSIC VIDEOS, A Life In Song, Life In Song 2000's, music video, Running Away Songs, Summer Songs, Videos

Life In Song #331, “Summer Storm (America The Beautiful)

A song about discovery, coming of age and running away.

Video:

Audio: (Your purchase of the song for $1.00 or more supports this project! Thank you!)

Hey Folks

Once upon a time… When I was in High School in the late 1970’s, it was a rite of passage for many of my friends to take an epic trip across country from New York to California.

One set of friends hitch-hiked. Another set had a car. Since I was never a fan of car trips or hitch-hiking I traveled with them in my IMAGINATION…

Before cell phones there was only the public pay phone. If you didn’t have money you could call collect… and let your folks know you were ok.

Later on my step daughter (from my ill fated 2nd marriage) followed the same California call and triggered this song.

This is a song about discovery, coming of age and running away.
Life In Song #331, “Summer Storm (America The Beautiful)

In the face of the hard winter of 2022 with the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, this tune kept nudging me to sing it.

I hope it provides a few minutes of peace and wonder for you. Thanks for watching/listening!

– Mark

 

Lyrics:

Summer Storm
(America The Beautiful)Song #331 | 5/19/2003 | Recorded Winter 2022 | Tuning: EABEBE

There’s a summer storm from the West
Bringing rain and a cooling breeze
In the Eastern sky, There’s a rising moon
Aching for release
There’s an interstate that knows both our names
Can you hear it calling us?
So I dare you to come with me…
Let’s leave the East coast in the dust

Refrain:
And the spacious skies above the plain
And the waves of amber grain
“America, The Beautiful” how does a kid restrain
This urgency to see it all from Sea to shining sea!
So you got to let me know if you’re coming with me…

They don’t have to know that we have gone
Until we are too far away
This is the summer of our freedom
So what do you say?
Can you see us crossing the Golden Gate
3,000 miles away from Maine
So let’s turn the key. Engage the gears.
We will not be restrained

Refrain:

Can you taste the rain steam off the road
After the the thunder squall
And in a week or maybe two
the road will start to fall
Towards the coast highway where we’ll find a phone
And make a collect call
Just to let them know that we are safe
And we will be back in the Fall…

Refrain:

Tag:
America the Beautiful
There’s a summer storm and a cooling breeze…

Copyright 2003-2022 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used with Permission.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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