Mark Shepard, "Modern-Jedi," Songwriter

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CD: Visions & Voices

Commentary:
It just didn't seem fair. I had written so many songs but something just kept stopping me. It's not for lack of trying. Every time I attempted to get the "career" moving. I just couldn't. There were physical issues. I had been struggling with a chronic fatigue like experience which meant that I just didn't have the energy to work a job and stay up nights playing gigs. I had no sales skills or social intelligence so I didn't have any organizational support. I didn't really have a clue how to get the songs out. so I just kept writing them.

Eventually, triggered by the mood in this song, I started getting some help. I tried traditional Psycho therapy but that really didn't help. Then I started studying with an Energy Healer, Mearah Marqua. Stuff started happening. By 1993 I was forced by circumstances (a long story), into playing my kid songs at nursery schools and summer camps, birthday parties...It was a start. By 1998 I had made major improvements in my health. But it wasn't until 2002 that I discovered NLP and started making rapid and deep changes...And then not until this 2007 that things began to come together in ways that have enabled me to put this web site together...

Hey, it's all about the journey! Enjoy the song. - Mark

Play "Minstrel Fires"

Minstrel Fires            6/7/1988

When I look at you dancing
I breathe deeply
Everything you do looks so damn easy
But envy never healed an aching heart
Or soothed this strange desire
Envy only wraps you up in wires 

It is raining, I am running
I am walking, I am stumbling
I’m dreaming that I’m shouting
I wake up mumbling
And the faceless voicesScattered all about me
Speak of a passion that would free me 

Refrain:
If I could, I would fly
Into the Summer sky
If I would, I could fly
Into the Summer sky

My music is my lover
It is my enemy
It is my destination
It is my agony
Wrapped up in mad desires
Following the lights of
Ancient minstrel fires

Refrain:

Let the neighbors talk
Let them dream, let them wonder
Let my voice be full of thunder
I must climb out of canyons
Of my own creating
I must escape the prisons
O my hesitating

Refrain:

© Mark Shepard 1988-2007 All rights reserved.
www.MarkShepard.com
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