Mark Shepard, "Modern-Jedi," Songwriter

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Moments Away
Song #191  
Composition date: August 1993
Commentary Date: 6/17/2008
CD: Life In Song 1993-94

Commentary:
This was a pivotal time in my life when all the things I'd been attempting to do to pay the bills stopped working. The 1980's real estate bubble had crashed and I owed more on my houses than they were worth. My title insurance agency was also dependent on the real estate market so my income dropped drastically. I realized that I was working my brains out and missing the important things...I ended up getting rid of my title insurance business. I lost my house to foreclosure. Declared bankruptcy. Generally had a really wonderful year! 

It forced me to seriously evaluate what I wanted to do and what resources I did have...So I forced myself to call every nursery school in the phonebook to offer my kids music for $75 per hour...Somehow without my really "getting" it I had become a full time professional musician...

So it's in the appreciation of the moments that matter as well as the recognition that it often takes moments to make a change or a powerful decision that can forever change your life...

 

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Moments Away      #191  August 1993

 

Take time to read to the children

Take time to read to yourself

Take time to throw a Frisbee

Take time to be...

 

Take time to smell the flowers

Take time to plant a seed

Take time to dance in rain showers

Take time for what you need

Take time for what you need

 

Refrain:

'Cause we are moments away...

We are moments away...

We are moments away from

Paradise...

 

Take time to be a best friend

Take time to sit and listen

Take time to write that letter

Take time and you'll feel better

Take time and you'll feel much better

 

Refrain:

 

Bridge:

Hey don't I know you?

From somewhere long ago?

Hey don't I know you?

Where did the time go?

 

Take time to laugh like a fool

Take time out for the golden rule

Take time to look at the view

Take time to say "I love you"

 

Refrain:

© Mark Shepard 1993-2008. All rights reserved.
www.MarkShepard.com
Permission to reprint intact granted as long as copyright and website link are included

 

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