A Life In Song: 4 Decades of Original Music
403 Boats Are Burning (LIS 2009) by Mark Shepard When Alexander The Great landed on the shores of Persia. He was vastly outnumbered by the Persian Army. He ordered his boats to be burned. legend has it that he said, "We either go home in Persian ships or we die!" It's a powerful metaphor still …
076 On My Way by Mark Shepard About This Song: (Lyrics below) At the time of writing this song, (1985) I was 24 years old. My 21 year old wife was 7 months pregnant with our first child. Married only 4 months, we were not talking or connecting very well. We had no clue how. I was about as …
About This Song: This is one of those songs that truly chose me to write it. I was driving up the Hudson river near Peekskill, NY and the moon was just hypnotically filling the sky and reflected off of the Hudson. I was reflective as well because my elderly next door neighbor Charlie, had just …
