Name: This Too Shall Pass (Song #552)
Duration: P00H07M11S
Description: I've been working on this one for about 3 years... it finally came together in the last few weeks as we had some early snow... and THAT caused it to start playing in my head... and then we had MORE early snow and THAT caused me to actually start playing it obsessively and compulsively for days... until I just HAD to RECORD it.

This Too Shall Pass (Song #552)

by Mark Shepard

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I've been working on this one for about 3 years... it finally came together in the last few weeks as we had some early snow... and THAT caused it to start playing in my head... and then we had MORE early snow and THAT caused me to actually start playing it obsessively and compulsively for days... until I just HAD to RECORD it.

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This Too Shall Pass
Song #552 | November 2019

The dandelion seed, takes to the wind
Without a thought to its end
The blades of grass bow low to the early snow
As they teach us how to bend

Refrain:
This too shall pass… (3X)

All my life I was told
To do as I was told.
All my life, they said, “To earn your daily bread
We’ll give you paper money for your gold…”

Refrain:

All my life I was told
I was too young. I was too old
What they should have said is that we’re too soon dead
So you might as well be bold…

Refrain:

All my life I’ve been alone
Never felt like I was home
All my life they said “it’s all in your head”
But I feel it in my bones…

Refrain:

The dandelion seed, takes to the wind
Without a thought to its end
The blades of grass bow low to the early snow
As they teach us how to bend

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released November 21, 2019

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Mark Shepard Albany, New York

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