While this song was a light hearted attempt at exploring the nature of "married love" and the stuff in our primary relationships that we have to "put up with" in order to get along... it's ultimately really about a much higher kind of love... with a few changes I could sing this song at Unity and …
183 Stone of Many Colors
Still exploring songs from 1993... This is one of those songs that just "came in." I can't remember if I was walking on the beach and picking up pretty stones to put on my window sill or mantle or just imagining walking on the beach and picking up stones... BTW your unconscious mind does not know …
192 Give Me The Strength
1993 was quite the year... The year EVERYTHING fell apart...and the year EVERYTHING came together in a way that was BETTER than I could possibly imagine...Someday, I'll tell you the whole story... but today?Check out this song... which I sing acapella accompanied by drumming on my legs... It's a bit …
199 The Breaking of Silence
This song is about moving past the immediate surfaces of things, to a deeper meaning, to the breaking of silence... It was around this time that I first started writing songs to drums... Here it's a large frame drum... The tricky thing about singing to drums is that depending upon the weather the …
198 All Around The World
This is one of the songs I wrote for a local puppet troupe back in 1993, which featured a huge, friendly Dragon... The story idea was that this friendly dragon was living in a cave and everyone was afraid of it. If they would only take the time to get to know him, they would like …
190 Rose Colored Glasses
190 Rose Colored Glasses by Mark ShepardAbout This Song: (Lyrics below) This song was written at one of the darkest most difficult times in my life. But suffice it to say miracles DID happen and things resolved, as I look back upon it, in ways that were better than I could possibly imagine at the …