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LIS 024-Partners of Balance

“Life In Song” #24: Partners of Balance was the first song I wrote at SUNY Purchase (now called Purchase College). It’s a love song. I was just primed to fall in love. That’s what you do your first Fall at college right? Fall in love. Get it? Fall. In Love. Well she never got the memo! But it’s all good! This song still feels good to sing and it just might apply to your life. Am I right? As far as I know this is the only place I’ve ever recorded this. PRESERVATION baby! That’s what the Life in Song project is all about. Thanks for watching/listening. – Mark

PLEASE! Use headphones or decent speakers to listen to this instead of your tinny little computer speakers. It’s recorded in crystal clear digital sound and the headphones really make a difference!

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Lyrics:

Partners of Balance | September 1978 | Song #24

There is future in both of us
And exit signs at every door
And things we’ve never said before
And feelings that could someday mature
I met you on this side of somewhere
With thoughts escaping from your eyes
Of lighted darkness and melted ice
And visions of a private paradise

Refrain:
We are the gathering of Spirit
The touchers of silence
The drinkers of beauty
We are the wind and the tall grass
The partners of balance,
We are the sky and the sea

There’s Creation in both of us
The gift to give and to receive
That inner longing that must be relieved
In music, paint or the touching of sleeves
There is autumn in your hair
The scents and colors present all around
Of Bittersweet and thistledown
Contrasting with the oak leaves’ reddish brown

Refrain:

There is living in both of use
Thought at times we surely think of death
I’m pretty sure our time has not come yet
Though I would hesitate to place a bet
But even if the exit signs are there
No force can take from us the things we’ve shared

Refrain:

Tuning: GGDGAD

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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

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

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

Love your lyrics!

Love your music! Love your lyrics!

Robin Bridgeford

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

Never fails to move me…

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

Paula

Just awesome…

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

Eric

Enjoying your songs so much…

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

Marianne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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