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059 Entropy (solo acoustic)

by Mark Shepard

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Back in the 1980’s there was a lot of fear and anxiety about the USSR and the USA and their massive nuclear arsenals aimed at each other…. things have changed. The wall came down. And you don’t hear too much about the possibility of nuclear war in the news… I’m not sure where all these weapons went but I still think we need to be praying for peace….however you do that… It could be some kind of “official” kind of prayer or some “close facsimile”… For me singing is the deepest and most profound "prayer". If a powerful song gets stuck in your heard and "loops" repeatedly, it can have a profound effect on your experience and behavior as you go through your day.

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Entropy

Song # 59 | May-June 1982

Off on some empty desert
Stretch of Paradise
The wind in the gravel
Burdened me with this advice
“Catch yourself in falling Time
Then laugh and leave it all behind
The Universe is meaningless
Until you touch it with your Mind”

I remember wondering
And I still wonder to this day
What that dirt road statement
Really had at heart to say
Meanwhile the streets wait for a prophet
And the buildings wait for a saint
Some back alley poet
Makes his statement in spray paint

Refrain:
As we continue to move towards Entropy
The Shape of who we are
Changes radically
The only chance we have left is to pray endlessly
Or carry out some close Facsimile

“Beware of me! beware of me”
Sings the serpent in our dreams
We laugh out in the daylight
Till the dark starts leaking through the seams
So we turn our eyes to science
Put our faith in “thinking Man”
We try to break alliance
With a god that we cannot command

Refrain:

Cacophony of honking horns
Agony of aching feet
Apocalypse at 5:00 PM
I try to keep my fear discreet
Look at me, look at yourselves
Look at everything we are
Then hold my daughter in your arms
And tell me what her chances are…

Refrain:

Copyright 1982-2015 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.

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released January 26, 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.

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