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Blue Chair Medley (Live With The Rogue Mystics)

by Mark Shepard

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This is actually 3 separate songs.
1. Song # 524 "Big Blue Chair"
2. Song #127 "Waiting For A Sign"
3. Song #507 "Breathe In The Air, Breathe Out A Song"

It's a kind of musical sandwich of my more recent lyrically "spare" style that came out of the Unity Church Kirtan Chant movement... and one of the songs that I sing the most for myself in the privacy of my own living room simply for the delight in the word pictures and emotions that it triggers for me...

The Rogue Mystics had never heard the first two and only a few of the band members had heard the 3rd one.

lyrics

1. Song # 524 "Big Blue Chair"
Lyrics:
"You look fine tonight. Sitting in, sitting in my big blue chair"

2. Song #127 "Waiting For A Sign"
lyrics:

Waiting For A Sign

Song # 127 | May 1989 | CD: Feather On The Wind

Ghost of morning, dream of daylight
Bead of dew on marble floor
Throats of songbirds pierce the curtains
A breezing lightness flows through the door
Like a man with lovely daughters
Hesitates to let them go,
The earth returns to fragrant sunlight
Weaving live with ebb and flow

Life is a butterfly walking on water
Revealing something beyond itself
Waiting for a sign….
Waiting for a sign

The streets begin to throb with traffic
And business men in three piece suits
While the homeless sleep on benches
A jazz musician plays his flute
Our days are so filled up with motion
There is no peace behind the eyes
Like tiny drops in some vast ocean
We tumble helplessly on the tide…

Peace is a butterfly walking on water
Revealing something beyond itself
Waiting for a sign, waiting for a sign…

Living rooms resound like churches
When the hopeful gather there
Joining hands and building bridges
Built on truth and love and care
Chains and prisons walls can’t hold us
While our hearts can still fly free
Sticks and stones may break my body
But they will never silence me

Truth is a butterfly
Waltzing on water
Revealing something beyond itself
Waiting for a sign, waiting for a sign (repeat)


3. Song #507 "Breathe In The Air, Breathe Out A Song"
Lyrics:
"Breathe In The Air, Breathe Out a song..."

credits

released November 27, 2016
Mark Shepard and The Rogue Mystics:

Mark Shepard: vocals and acoustic guitar
Joe Mennonna: Keyboards
Gene Moore: Electric Guitar
Roger Mock: Mandolin
Mike Covey: Guitar
Brian Melick: Percussion
Pete Furlong: Vocals and Percussion
Joy Adler: Vocals
Sarah Puig: Vocals
Rilee O'Neill: Vocals
Engineer: Bryan Brundige

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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.

But now you can hear them... here... Download. Share. Thanks!
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