Posts Tagged ‘empowerment’
Stand Tall
This song goes well with the post I wrote today over at www.ModernJedi.com about “Failure”
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Stand Tall | Fall 2003, Winter 2004, Fall 2004 | Song #340
A rainy day and it’s not yours
You had to face a few slammed doors
So you sit and hang your head (wondering how to earn some bread)
Was it something someone said?
Or is it a picture in your head?
Was it a feeling in your gut
Was it an open door you imagined shut
You decide.
Refrain:
Stand tall. Force a grin. Forget the loss and count the win
Hold fast. Dig down deep. First you sow and then you reap
Look up. Breathe it in. You’ve got the gold of Solomon
Look left, Look right. Brighten up your inner light
When did you decide to lose?
Don’t you know we always choose
To retreat or to go forward
To move away or to move towards
So pick yourself up off the boards
Give yourself an award
You gave it your best shot and now it’s time to dig down deep
And pull out just a little more, pull out just a little more.
You decide.
Refrain:
What just changed? Not the world, the world’s the same
You just rearranged your perception
You shifted your focus and in the process chose to let go of some old pain.
That’s right! Take it, shrink it down, fade it out, push it far away and Let it go!
Rearrange it into something you can learn from.
Now you know. And it just goes to show…
It’s lost its power over you hasn’t it?
And every thought has become a friend
Like the cripple throwing a way his crutch or
The shy kid reaching out his hand
And looking you right in the eye with an open smile and warmly inviting you to dance…It’s the shy kid inviting you to dance…
You decide. You decide.
© 2004-2009 by Mark Shepard ASCAP All Rights Reserved
commentary: I wrote this song at a time when I was really struggling just to get by even though I had invested thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in learning NLP specifically so that I would be able to break through the junk that was holding me back. Little did I know at the time that I was “deep in the process” of learning and practicing tools and techniques that would enable me to “hang in there” and eventually get back to my original “purpose” which was to share my 30 years of original songs with people who would not only appreciate them but who would benefit from the songs, the story as well as the NLP concepts and techniques…
Please share this with your friends and loved ones.
all the best! – Mark
Thirsty For The Sky
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Thirsty For The Sky | 9/18/2000 | Song # 310
I’ve been dreaming of birds and leaves,
Clouds of dust and dandelion seeds
And other things that spend their time in the sky
I’ve been working on healing the hurt,
Digging myself up out of the dirt
Mending these broken wings so I can take flight
Refrain:
I feel so dangerous and I feel so alive
I get so receptive to the heavens,
So thirsty for the sky
I feel like a Peregrine Falcon,
Untamed and unbound
It’s been a long time since
I’ve had my heart on the ground
Sometimes when I am talking,
I think I’m brilliant, I think I am stalking
Some great truth but then
I realize the weakness of words…
Though I may be just a candle flame
In a universe too huge to explain
That doesn’t mean I can’t speak
My intent and be heard!
Refrain:
I release myself from the chains of fear
Climb up into the atmosphere
Learn to quiet my thoughts
So that I can see
I give myself to the calling wind
Out to where the horizon bends
Unattached and at ease I set myself free
© 2000-2008 by Mark Shepard. ASCAP. All Rights Reserved
Commentary: This is the second version of a song that originally wasn’t quite so positive! Written several months before I discovered NLP, it is heavily inspired by some of the key Toltec concepts from the books of Carlos Castandea.
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Together We Can Change The World Video
Some Really, Really GOOD news:
To learn more about this amazing story visit:
www.TogetherWeCanChangeTheWorld.com
Learn more about Rilee O’Neill
Letters To Daddy: a Musical Detention. Starring Rilee O’Neill. Songs by Mark Shepard
Here are the Lyrics:
Together We Can Change The World | 12/5/2007 | #375
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
I believe it’s not too late
Together we can change the world
Lay the puzzle pieces out
Find out what it’s all about
Together we can change the world
Refrain:
Can’t do it by myself
So I’m asking for your help
Together we can change the world
Sail past where it’s been charted
Roll your sleeves up, let’s get started
Together we can change the world
Together we can change the world
With our hands and with our hearts
We can dare to make a start
Together we can change the world
What if we spoke with one voice,
Knowing that we have a choice?
Together we can change the world
Refrain:
[instrumental]
Change your mind and change your life
Set aside the fear and strife
Together we can change the world
When we open up our eyes
Then we start to realize
Together we can change the world
Refrain:
©2007 by Mark Shepard All Rights Reserved
She Prefers the Company of Wolves and Crows
She Prefers the Company of Wolves and Crows
(She Does Not Need You)
#378 January 2008
She prefers the company of wolves and crows
She knows the world nose to nose
She is feral, fierce and unafraid of lightening
She wears a different disguise at every sighting
She can taste you at some distance on the breeze
And with one look release you from your dis-ease
She will shout at you to get you to breathe
For your own sake learn to breathe!
She does not need you x3
She can paint you into or out of your existence
What you call intelligence is merely resistance
She demands that you abandon your defenses
See the world through a brand new pair of lenses
She is warrior, healer, mystic, daughter, mother, lover, sister
She is the magical entrance to this world where we are visitors
She’ll break your heart open and you will howl with joy and wonder
She will then offer your spirit up to the thunder…
She does not need you x3
She would prefer it if you turned off all the lights
Make friends with your shadow in the gathering of twilight
Remove your shoes for the ground you walk on is holy
The ground is as Holy as it is muddy
She is not interested in your opinion
She will never submit to your dominion
But she does invite you to dance until you drop
The old routines that caused you to stop…
She does not need you x3:
We are running out of time
Move your body, change your mind
Plug yourself into the divine
And maybe she will give you a sign
Surrender to the force of her persuasion
Her wildness has a certain contagion
She dares you to cross the vital threshold
Do it now before you are too old
She does not need you x3
© Mark Shepard 2008, all rights reserved
Learn More About Clarissa Pinkola-Estes
Commentary:
December of 2007 I was hanging out with a wild woman archetype in the flesh, Lesley Roy. Artist, entrepreneur, designer, former model…founder of the Corvus Art Center in New Haven, CT. Champion of the art of Dr. Ala Bashir…
To make a long story short, Lesley Roy was working on a series of paintings inspired by Women Who Run With the Wolves. It just happens to be one of my favorite books and sources as a storyteller. The Silkie story, I turned into a song. Skeleton Woman I adapted from several other versions.
So Leslie Roy challenged me to write a series of songs to go with her paintings.
This is one of them.