Tunes For Tough Times ~ Positive Songs by Mark Shepard

Turn It

February 20, 2012 by Mark

"...Take the positivity and turn it on, turn it up, turn it into something you can use..."

Turn It

From the Musical “Soles”
1/20/2011 Song #425

You are more than the clothes you wear
You are more than the style of your hair
You are more than what people think or say about you
Only you have the power to decide what is true

Refrain:
Take the negativity…
Turn it down, Turn it off
Turn it into something you can use (X2)
Take the Positivity
And turn it on, Turn it up
Turn it into something you can choose (X2)

Someone may say things that hurt you inside
Someone may do things that wound your pride
Take the rumors, take the lies
Push them out to the horizon, shrink them down to size

Refrain:

Think of something that got you upset
Think of someone you’re not over yet
Shrink the picture down, push it far behind
Remember you have the power to run your own mind

Refrain:

Wherever you go my voice will go too
Whispering in your ear what is true…

Standard tuning
Verse: C G F
Refrain: Am C G F

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I Want To Go Home

February 2, 2012 by Mark

escaping yellow balloons float into a blue sky past a church steeple...

"I want to go home... where helium balloons still escape from the hands of small children at firemens parades..."

I Want to Go Home

3/16/2010 | Song # 412

I want to go home.
Where the faces are friendly
Where I don’t feel like an enemy behind the lines
I want to go home
Where songs are still sung
By kids allowed to play outside in the sun
I want to go home
Where sunflowers bloom
And there’s plenty of room to stretch out and run

Refrain:
I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
Yes I want to go home…

I want to go home
Where helium balloons still escape
From the hands of small children at the firemen’s parades
I want to go home
Where you can watch them fly
Up into the sky and finally out of sight

Refrain:

I want to go home.
Where the porch swing still squeaks
And fireflies blink on muggy summer nights
I want to go home
Where it’s not against the law to think
And you’re free to wonder at the speed of light

Refrain:

Bridge:
Where they don’t tell you who you’re supposed to be
Where they don’t sell you the version of you
That everyone else is supposed to see

I want to go home
Where your spirits are lifted
And everyone’s gifted with creativity
I want to go home
If we all insisted that it really existed
Maybe it would come to be?

Refrain:

Guitar – Capo 3:
D G DG A (verse)
Bm A G (refrain)
Bm A G (Bridge)

On piano
F B C verse | Dm C B refrain

photo by fat mandy from flickr.com

Filed Under: Audio, Driving Songs, Positive Songs, Solo Acoustic, Spiritual Songs, Tunes For Tough Times

Shine

January 9, 2012 by Mark

"Shine, Shine, Shine!"

Shine

| 12/4/2011 | Song #435

(Please listen with headphones!)

D C                    G    F C
Out in the darkness a child is born
D         C                   G            F C
Is he who we expected or something more
D            C                    G           F C
His father is a dreamer his mother is poor
D                  C                                                       G    F C
Tell me what you seek as you peek around the stable door…

Refrain:
D A G
Shine, Shine Shine (3X)

D C                    G    F C
Out in the distance a star ignites
D      C                                G    F C
Even in the daytime you can see its light
D C                    G    F C
Could this be a sign of the end of times?
D C                         G               F C
Or just an invitation to change your mind?

Refrain:

D     C                    G    F C
Back in the beginning was the Word
D                            C            G    F C
Breaking through the silence to be heard
D              C                          G    F C
Can you hear it now? Can you turn it up?
D                           C                   G    F C
You know the Word is Love. Come and fill your cup

Refrain:

Repeat first verse

Sing refrain twice at end

Vocals & Guitar by Mark Shepard

Lead Guitar & vocals: Roger Mock

Vocals: Angelina Michele Hart

Photo by Dunnock http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunnock_d/4526349284/

Filed Under: Audio, Band, Christmas Songs, Live Recording, Motivational Songs, Positive Songs, Spiritual Songs, Tunes For Tough Times, Unity Tunity

Minstrel Fires

December 21, 2011 by Mark

...following the lights of ancient minstrel fires

Minstrel Fires

From Visions And Voices CD

6/7/1988 | Song #104

When I look at you dancing
I breathe deeply
Everything you do looks so damn easy
But envy never healed an aching heart
Or soothed this strange desire
Envy only wraps you up in wires

It is raining, I am running
I am walking, I am stumbling
I’m dreaming that I’m shouting
I wake up mumbling
And the faceless voices
Scattered all about me
Speak of a passion that would free me

Refrain:
If I could, I would fly
Into the Summer sky
If I would, I could fly
Into the Summer sky

My music is my lover
It is my enemy
It is my destination
It is my agony
Wrapped up in mad desires
Following the lights of
Ancient minstrel fires

Refrain:

(Killer guitar solo by Gene Moore…)

Let the neighbors talk
Let them dream, let them wonder
Let my voice be full of thunder
I must climb out of canyons
Of my own creating
I must escape the prisons
Of my hesitating

Refrain:

From Visions And Voices CD

Photo by MoominMolly Flickr.com

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