Looking at you
Looking at me
Two mirrors reflecting mine
Smiling at you
Smiling at me
The edges of my life define

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But it never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

Laughing at you
Laughing at me
Two notes in harmony
Crying with you
Crying with me
Makes my sorrow taste so sweet

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But it never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

Feeling your little head on my shoulder 
Holding your little heartbeat a little closer
How could I know as you grow a little older
This is a love I won't get over

Growing with you
Growing past me
Taking steps I feared to take
Hoping that you
Never lose hope, dear
This world is yours to make

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But I never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

The Very Best Of Me

New album "Embers"
https://open.spotify.com/album/55rxnOYA8bwL3lj27caWzg

Cold Rain (from album "Embers")

Amazing Grace - Tribute to Randy Travis

this is back when I was a student, years ago (40) and I took the train to school in Canada.

THE RAILWAY SONG

I wrote this in January 2005, and have performed it solo many times but it took a while to get it recorded.

Each verse (and the bridge) is a scene from the Ithaca, NY area.

Lyrics:

a flash of gold
a flash of green
a flash of something old you
thought you never should've seen
a flash of alabaster
a flash of white, and after that
a flash of insight into
something gray you'd thought was unclean

rolling down the hillside,
tired and in no gear
the city lights below you,
up ahead a deer just crossed the road
 
you missed the sign,
but it occurs to you that
you are here.
 
you bought your ticket,
you paid the price:
you made your way here
slogging through the snow and ice
the sound and motion
wake you from sleep, mm
but it's the silence
that pulls you in deep.
 
come and dance with me,
i'm sitting very still
come sing your passion to the rooftops
and in the mumbled echo you might hear your name
 
there's only one way
to find out whether
you are here.
 
circling to land
the end of the line
no connecting flights
there's only one way to travel,
and that's forward in time.
 
i had a vision,
it went like this:
a quiet sunbeam
and a forest kiss
it led me forward, but
now it's so far away
and when I glimpse it, it
only leads to yesterday
 
how can i run in darkness, flying into fear?
but if i listen close and stay standing here,
will it come to me?
 
it all comes to this,
and this is you,
and you are here.

Over the Moon

Unstoppable

Olivia

This is a playlist of my new record "Creature Born For Happiness" coming out August 11th. Enjoy!

11 Sweethearts In The Movies Main Mastered 16b 44k

Winter Song

The salutation
Of my meeting
What I approach
And how 
I’m greeting.
The ability
To see
What and who
Is leading.
This Goddess
Of who?
This Goddess
Of what?
Is my mind shut?
Can God himself
Invite 
What will disrupt?

From him
To her
From her
To him
Where do I find
The gratitude
Or oneness?
From the field
That has
Always been.

Is the 
Speed of light
Always the same?
Then,
How does
Non-duality
Arrive?
Can it be time
Is to blame?
My gratitude
Speaks softly
Of the gifts
And death
Ever no more.

From him
To her
From her
To him
Where do I find
The gratitude
Or oneness?
From the field
That has
Always been.

As my heart 
Speaks out
To a mind
To implore.
The Goddess
Of awareness
And the ego
Nor
This magnitude
Of my gratitude
Is not just
A statement 
Of worldly
Platitude.

From him
To her
From her
To him
Where do I find
The gratitude
Or oneness?
From the field
That has
Always been.

The projection
my perception
Beyond the mind’s
Contemption.
The gratitude
And the Goddess’s
Awareness.
The oneness
From the 
Divine conception
Of my soul
Moving through
A field
Where time
Is not something
You hold.

The Field

Just an ordinary knucklehead strumming my six-string and singing songs. All songs are original raw recordings of my songwriting journey of healing and finding peace. Maybe one of these days, I'll actually learn how to record and mix better, but until then, I'm just having fun. Many of the thumbnails are my original art creations check out my insta for more art. I hope you like it!

Unstoppable

Mark Ballard

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