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012 Songs Through A Window

by Mark Shepard

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This is one of my earliest songs.

A young woman (at least in my original imagined scenario she could be any age) spends the night singing songs as she gazes out her window at the lights of the city…

Ultimately this is a theme that you will notice running through my entire catalog. There are probably at least a dozen songs that challenge the listener to “look around”, “open your eyes”, “pay attention”.

Ultimately that isn’t me being redundant it’s a message we have been receiving from “the home office” for a long time.

In NLP we discover that our entire world is really happening within our consciousness. What other people do or say or think is open to our own interpretation. I’m sure we’ll talk about this more in future episodes! Look around at your life, your day and imagine it’s a song you are singing… :o)

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Songs Through A Window

Song #12 | December 1977

She sings love songs to the traffic light
That lives outside her window
And the rust and concrete symphony
That drifts in from the street
Finds its way into the background harmony
All night…
The clock on the dresser
Grinds away the time
And improvises any tune that comes to mind

She sings so many things through the window
The near and far away
She sings the song of the night and the day

She hums ballads to the bridges
That look like cages full of stars
And the stained glass poetry
Of the moving cars
Emerges as a painting in red and white
All night…
The clock on the dresser grinds away the time
And improvises any tune that comes to mind

She sings so many things through the window
The near and far away
She sings the song of the night and the day

And even as she’s singing
The dawn begins to rise
The new sun offers up itself
To the altar of her eyes
She bows her head in a prayer with the eastern skies
Ahhh….
The clock on the dresser grinds away the time
And improvises any tune that comes to mind…

Tuning DADGAD

Copyright 1977-2015 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved.

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released January 21, 2016
Mark Shepard: Vocals & Guitar
Joe Mennonna: Engineer

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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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