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312 Freedom (RAW mix Live W/ The Rogue Mystics)

by Mark Shepard

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From The Last Concert of Mark Shepard and the Rogue Mystics 11/19/16:

This is LITERALLY BLOWING MY MIND!

I'm listening to the RAW mix from Saturday nights concert in my headphones and it is filling my spirit with unfiltered, high test energy that is just popping my neurological circuits!

Holy H. GUACAMOLE!

This is the first song of the evening.... and as I started playing it and gazing out at the radiant beautiful faces of the sold out crowd (some of whom flew from as far away as Texas!)... I just had a MASSIVE Brain JOLT AND TOTALLY FORGOT THE LYRICS!

And you know what? IT WAS NO BIG DEAL.

Bye bye "perfectionism"...  We just started over and it ROCKED!

enuf said. 

here it is.

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Freedom (It’s A long Road)
From The Last Concert of Mark Shepard and the Rogue Mystics 11/19/16

Song #312 | 12/12/2000 |

Freedom is a word
That is very often heard
But just as often much misunderstood
It might mean nothing left to lose
Or that you get to choose
Between two leaders, neither of them good

It could mean you have got no plans
Or that you cut loose when you dance
It might mean you got the guts to speak your mind
It could mean you have no regrets,
Beliefs, possessions, pets
Or that you always pay your bills on time

Refrain:
It’s been a long road
That I’ve been walking down
That I’ve been lost and found on
It’s been a long road
That I’ve been walking down
But now I hear the sounds of…
Freedom

I choose not to be a slave
To the assumptions you have made
And I accept the consequences of my choice
I will make my own mistakes
I will find out what it takes
From now on I will heed my inner voice

I pledge allegiance to my self
For the sake of my own health
Not a country or a point of view
If I declare myself to be
A human being free
Well you know, that gives your freedom back to you

Refrain:

Bridge: Freedom. Freedom.(X2)

Freedom is a bird
That is seldom seen or heard
But still it rises up on falcon’s wings
And when it bursts up into flight
With it’s feathers full of light
It fills my heart with joy to hear it sing…

Copyright 2000-2016 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.

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released November 21, 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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