Songs Through A Window (Full Album)

by Mark Shepard

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1.	044 Tears At A Moment's Notice (STAW LP) 05:09	lyrics	buy track
Tears At A Moment’s Notice Song #44 \| Spring 1980 \| CD: tbd Refrain: Will we risk tears at a moment’s notice? Love that dares to show? Arms that share the aching? Eyes that always know? Will we dare to live our lives Among the wide open spaces? Will we dare to reach inside To touch and heal the damaged places? Will we dare to lose ourselves In the “dangerous” embraces? Refrain: And when the empty, righteous ones Tangle you aside With dulling exhortations That always fail to hide The deeper things around us That no pat answer can describe, Refrain: Can you see the possibilities Of living to the edge Can you feel the sense of liberty In what some call “sacrilege” Did you know that being fully human Is a God given privilege? Refrain: © 1980-2015 by Mark Shepard
2.	005 Running In Rain (STAW LP) 04:13		buy track
3.	014 Songs Through A Window (STAW LP) 04:01		buy track
4.	035 Drooling (STAW LP) 04:19		buy track
5.	036 Behind Our Faces (STAW LP) 03:16		buy track
6.	038 Short Song (STAW LP) 02:04	lyrics	buy track
Short Song #38 \| January 1980 \| Songs Through A Window LP \| Tuning: DADGAE You go to sleep in the evening You rise in the morning You put on some clothes And you go to work all day You do what they pay you for You eat your lunch alone You get on the bus And you head back home You have yourself some supper You wash up the dishes You look at TV Then you go upstairs to bed Outside my window I see the stars a shining The dog next door… He Barks at the moon I used to be a child Now I am a young man Someday I’ll be an older man Someday I will die… Copyright 1980-2016 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved.
7.	041 Scarecrow Boy (STAW LP) 03:48		buy track
8.	042 Raised and Called (STAW LP) 03:32		buy track
9.	054 Questions & Silent Benedictions (STAW LP) 05:14		buy track

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This was my first album. back in the days of LP vinyl records... 33 1/3 rpm... to my ears I can hear the 35 years of improvement... but I offer this for "historical purposes" because some of the songs have never been recorded anywhere else.

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released January 28, 2016

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Mark Shepard Albany, New York

Welcome to my “Life In Song” project.

Since 1976, I’ve been obsessively and compulsively writing songs. Some of them are inspired by my own life, my attempts to understand love, life, spirituality, peace and justice.

While I recently have started to get a little recognition, you’ve probably never heard my songs ANYWHERE.

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