The New York Songwriters Circle

2008 Songwriting Contest

Mark D. Conklin

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Mark D. Conklin is a performing songwriter, guitarist and producer with over twenty years of professional experience who currently splits his time between New York and Nashville.

In the last few years he has had nearly 30 independent cuts including the title track of Shannon Curfman's "Fast Lane Addiction" CD which reached the Top Ten on Billboard's Blues Chart. His song "How Do I Say Goodbye" is featured in the recently released independent film Karaoke King which appeared at the Cannes film festival. Most recently his song “Welcome to my Life” recorded by Paige Williams has been placed in the upcoming movie “Wake” starring Jane Seymour and has been nominated for Pop Single of the Year at the 2008 L.A. Music Awards.

Mark was recently one of nineteen writers selected to attend Skip Ewing's Horse and Writer Invitational in Wyoming. He has co-written with some of Music Row and the Big Apple's finest songwriters including, Pat Alger, Bonnie Baker, Jim McCormick and Anthony Krizan to name a few.

(M. Conklin/D. Rivers)

Spent the last three years in a bottle to kill the taste of your goodbye
Smoked the last of what I had to burn your last kiss from my mind
I wasn’t strong enough like I thought I was
To leave your leaving me behind

So I got high
Trying to get up above the clouds
But I can’t stop myself from crashing down
There’s nothing on this earth that I can do
Cause I can’t get high enough to get me over you

Down here it’s all too real and too much of you remains
You’re in every song on the radio and every falling drop of rain
The sun still comes up and it still goes down but
My whole world has gone and changed

So I got high
Trying to get up above the clouds
But I can’t stop myself from crashing down
There’s nothing on this earth that I can do
Cause I can’t get high enough to get me over you

Nothing could replace a single part of you
So I’m just letting go of getting high

Trying to get up above the clouds
Cause I can’t stop myself from crashing down
There’s nothing on this earth that I can do
Cause I can’t get high enough
I can’t get high enough to get me over you
I got high