D. Charles Speer is American singer and guitarist David Charles Shuford (bo… Read Full Bio ↴D. Charles Speer is American singer and guitarist David Charles Shuford (born and raised in Atlanta, GA). He also records as D. Charles Speer & The Helix.

After moving to New York City in the early 90s, Shuford forged a path as a musician adept in multiple sounds and styles. A member of the No-Neck Blues Band for many years, he has also engaged his mind and fingers in other groups such as Enos Slaughter, The Suntanama, Egypt Is The Magick #, and Coach Fingers. Through a steady series of home recordings, the Speer trajectory began to take shape in the early 2000's. Assembling of masses of vibration bearing wood was needed to fulfill one man’s band obligations. The full instrumental ensemble of a Middle Eastern belly dance troupe and a selection of voices from a Cajun band were thereby smashed together to engender a sound wildly alive. After a self released debut solo LP Some Forgotten Country in 2007, Speer then sought out a public performance outlet with the killing-est band in the land, the Helix (recording as D. Charles Speer & The Helix). His second solo LP Arghiledes brought a return focus upon acoustic instrumentation, with a still healthy dose of electric effects and speaker fry.

Shooting Star
D. Charles Speer Lyrics

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반짝이는 별들 아래서
끝없는 그 좌절 앞에서
넘어진 채 웅크려있던 (oh)
시간이 가도 나만 여기서 (여기서)
하늘을 올려다보고 있어 (oh)

Yozora no shooting star
Oh, shooting star

그 반대편에 난 어둠 안에 살아
Ne, ne shooting star
아침이 온다면
제발 이 느린 밤을 걷어내줘 yeah
걸어 another way
나만 또 여기에
혼자 있는 기분이 다가와도 I'm okay
걸어 another way
그래서 날 욕해
다르단 이유로 날 무시하곤 했었네
걸어 another way
하늘을 보며 yeah
내가 빛날 자릴 찾아보고는 했었네
걸어 another way, eh
내일을 위해

Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
반짝이는 별들 아래서
끝없는 그 좌절 앞에서
넘어진 채 웅크려있던 (oh)
시간이 가도 나만 여기서 (여기서)
하늘을 올려다보고 있어 (oh)

Yozora no shooting star
그 언제쯤에야
날 가둔 벽이 다 부서져가는 거야 (가는거야)
Ne, ne shooting star
낡은 외로움이 나의
마음 안에 엉겨 붙어있나 봐 yeah
걸어 another way
모두가 날 욕해도
저 밤하늘을 비추는 별이 되기로 yeah
걸어 another way
더러운 말들에
할퀴어진 흉터가 여전히 나의 마음에
있어도 I'm okay
안고서 가볼게
영원히 빛나는 내가 되어 비춰줄게
날 응원했던 모두를 yeah
우리를 위해

Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
Yozora no shooting star
반짝이는 별들 아래서
끝없는 그 좌절 앞에서
넘어진 채 웅크려있던 (oh)

시간이 가도 나만 여기서 (여기서)
하늘을 올려다보고 있어 (oh)

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of D. Charles Speer's song "Shooting Star" portray a sense of resilience and determination in the face of adversity. The singer finds themselves in a state of constant disappointment and frustration, represented by the endless disillusionment they experience beneath the shimmering stars. Even though they fall and cower in defeat, they choose to remain in this place, gazing up at the sky, as if searching for inspiration or guidance.

The shooting star mentioned in the chorus symbolizes hope and the singer's desire for a brighter future. They express a longing for the morning to come, hoping that it will bring an end to the slow and burdensome night. Despite feeling alone, the singer is resilient and decides to walk another way, even if it means being misunderstood or criticized. They have looked up at the sky, searching for a place where they can shine and be appreciated, all for the sake of tomorrow.

Overall, "Shooting Star" conveys a message of perseverance and the willingness to forge a path for oneself, even when faced with obstacles. It reflects the human capacity to endure and find hope in the midst of darkness.

Line by Line Meaning

반짝이는 별들 아래서
Underneath the shining stars

끝없는 그 좌절 앞에서
In front of endless frustration

넘어진 채 웅크려있던 (oh)
Falling down and crouching (oh)

시간이 가도 나만 여기서 (여기서)
Even as time passes, I'm still here (here)

하늘을 올려다보고 있어 (oh)
I'm looking up at the sky (oh)

Yozora no shooting star
Yozora's shooting star

Oh, shooting star
Oh, shooting star

그 반대편에 난 어둠 안에 살아
On the other side, I live in darkness

Ne, ne shooting star
Hey, hey shooting star

아침이 온다면
If morning comes

제발 이 느린 밤을 걷어내줘 yeah
Please take away this slow night yeah

걸어 another way
Walk another way

나만 또 여기에
Just me here again

혼자 있는 기분이 다가와도 I'm okay
Even if the feeling of being alone comes, I'm okay

걸어 another way
Walk another way

그래서 날 욕해
So they curse at me

다르단 이유로 날 무시하곤 했었네
They used to ignore me for being different

걸어 another way
Walk another way

하늘을 보며 yeah
While looking at the sky yeah

내가 빛날 자릴 찾아보고는 했었네
I used to search for a place where I can shine

걸어 another way, eh
Walk another way, eh

내일을 위해
For tomorrow

그 언제쯤에야
When will it be

날 가둔 벽이 다 부서져가는 거야 (가는거야)
The walls that imprisoned me are breaking apart (they're breaking)

Ne, ne shooting star
Hey, hey shooting star

낡은 외로움이 나의
The old loneliness inside me

마음 안에 엉겨 붙어있나 봐 yeah
Seems to be stuck in my heart yeah

걸어 another way
Walk another way

모두가 날 욕해도
Even if everyone curses me

저 밤하늘을 비추는 별이 되기로 yeah
I decided to become a star that shines in the night sky yeah

걸어 another way
Walk another way

더러운 말들에
To all the dirty words

할퀴어진 흉터가 여전히 나의 마음에
The scratched scars are still inside my heart

있어도 I'm okay
But I'm okay

안고서 가볼게
I'll embrace it and move forward

영원히 빛나는 내가 되어 비춰줄게
I'll become a forever shining light and illuminate

날 응원했던 모두를 yeah
Everyone who cheered for me yeah

우리를 위해
For us

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Comments from YouTube:

Nuno Simoes

2y↑2

Great talk! Learned a lot. Fantastic update on a very interesting theme. Thanks. Quuck questuon David, what do you think about the relatively recent finding of a very old skeleton in now inundated coastal caves of the Yucatán peninsula?

Ray Kinney

2y↑2

Great, thank you, very well done in such a short time period. I just picked up David Meltzer 2nd addition that came out this past winter, and i'm anxious to read it. I focus thoughts around how attractive the northern great basin lakes may have been to first peoples passing that far inland. While most family and friends bird watch around these reman at lakes, especially Warner Lake and Hart Mountain upland, I spend my time trying to visualize 20KA there. Your talk sparks further questions right away, especially the evocative last painting of dangers approaching a kill site, and how important it would be to a small band of first peoples to be safe enough in all they do to avoid loss of life or physical ability in any one person in the band, for the viability of that band. Thanks again, I hope to speak a bit with you sometime.

Kitty

came across this due to my feed preferences. What a wonderful presentation. I downloaded the presentation. I was wondering if anyone had identified the use of color as a directional indicator in rock art? Thanks for your information.

akira nara

2y↑10

Very informative, thank you . The old paradigm has changed after finding Footprints 23,000 BP, in New Mexico last year. Ice Free Corridor wasn't opened up at that era yet, then it seems to be coastal migration by boat along Kelp Highway of north Pacific ocean. Moreover, it wasn't "Express" migration from North America to the South. It seems to have moved step by step as normal pace and it took 70- 85 hundreds of years. It indicates that Asians started migration from the point, more than 30,000 years before to Beringia, whether it was in Siberia or in Hokkaido Japan. Ancestor, Proto Japanese "Sojin" since 35-30,000 BP in Hokkaido, had crossed 20km sea to the Tokyo islands for collecting obsidian by boat since 38,000 BP. So, descendants in Hokkaido could have migrated in coastal route. First Americans started from east freezing Siberia or along cold seashore connecting with sea of Hawaii 30,000 BP years before. Anyway now, the First Americans weren't mammoth hunters. A researcher Ryuzo Torii(WWⅠ era) , Tokyo Imperial University, paid attention to Routon tribe in northern Kuril islands and native Onkilon in Cukotskij sea shore tribe, in west Beringia. 　sunda-wind.net

Crafty Criminalist With Ms. Z

@L H are you truly curious or just being a passive aggressive troll?

tallmikb croft

2y↑1

I think I learned more for reading your comments than I did from the lecture. I did see the white sands research. Very exciting.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge

L H

2y↑1

What in the world are you talking about?

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Eber Hampton

2y↑3

Thank you. Great human science overview

Jon Rettich

2y↑2

Maybe I missed this but why couldn’t they have boated over? In the sixth century a Chinese Buddhist enterprise clearly describes mid Mexico
and never lost sight of land on the way over for more than three days, likely Barents Sea route. Thank you for this interesting presentation

Gregory T

2y↑2

Adair’s book written in 1775, “History of the American Indian”, gives 24 compelling reasons why much of this is inaccurate. Adair, although he thought himself poorly educated, knew Hebrew, spoke several Indian languages and dialects, traded with them and knew their traditions and customs, gives a very lucid account of their lives and their origins.

Scott Owens

2y↑3

Big question I have center's around the solutrian hyp. With many incursions from the West coast, we've seem to have forgotten eastern migrations simply because some people decided they came through a Ice free corridor and we're Clovis period. I do think it's a matter of time but eventually we will see incursions from All area's.
PS, I live in Washington and come from Oregon and having ran over every peice I could for 50+ year's, understanding what must have happened at and around the younger Drias, it's not to be expected to find much of anything it's buried 100's of feet, or blown out the Columbia River to who knows where. Our natives know much about this subject and should be asked. Much history here and there were survivor's who told the tale. Frankly the entire Pacific rim people's stories are based on fact. I've noticed that different from politicians, our native American brothers don't understand liying and for Darn sure don't tell these stories for anything other than teaching and expressing it's importance for and to the next generation

Bill Smart

Wonderful and broad view, some new info and new theory.

George Cuyler

2y↑2

I am Heiltsuk and Nu7lhalk and a recent dig proves that we Heiltsuk (hey-sook) were here 15000 years ago. I believe that the Simon Fraser university and University of Victoria were involved in the dig.
We have stories of a great flood a whale rescued us, plus we had to outrun the last ice age or be frozen instantly. In what is now Alberta Canada they found a human footprint inside a dinosaur footprint. Both in North and South America there are pictographs of horses, sabertooth, mammoths and other extinct species. We wouldn't have drawn them if we Turtle Islanders hadn't seen them.
I heard about the drawings in the south and the drawings of the aircraft's, someone recently made model of one craft and it flew. Toe that model looks like the space shuttles.

William Parker

2y↑3

Looking at the scene at the end of the presentation I'm asking myself how I would approach that situation if I were a primitive hunter. It seems obvious that a fire would push those cats off the carcass in a hurry. I can imagine using fire for alot of hunting applications. Surely that was common..

Ferengi profiteer

2y↑1

My guess, the mammoth hunt could well start with one good dart penetration. One guy.
These people could read tracks and trails like their lives depended on it.
Probably knew through handed down experience where kill areas were to aim for.
Probably knew what it meant to the chances of success where ever the dart struck.
10 hunters go out in ones and twos. Meet up at mid day and evening until someone 1. Doesn't show or 2. Says I got one bleeding.
That's how hunting camps work to this day.
I suspect these animals had little fear of man. (Until it was too late)

Daniel Tomaszewski

Thanks for this

SurfK9

2y↑2

Sapiens is a great book.

arasethw

in Ohio and Idaho the Paleo used Pitfall points ! Dr. I have several- there in Albums I sent you, two of which from Northern Idaho !

Scott Owens

2y↑1

One point. The bedrock layer with artifacts and the sterile layer show's two things. A scouring down to bedrock,a habitation after. A sterile period with deposition and a re occupation going through Clovis to now repeatedly.
Younger Drias Friend's. Exactly on Time with the energy to wipe out all trace's and explain the whole kit and caboodle.
I live here and it's completely torn up and washed away,or it's under hundreds of feet of burden

History Buff

2y↑2

Great talk, thank you. I have a concern. I really believe in include Native Americans in the research and excavations of sites. I also know that N.A. cultures have a different belief on ancestry than Europian cultures. However, I think it is very limiting to state that sites aged 13,000, or 16,000 (or older or younger) are ancesters of the local N.A. culture. We know these ancient peoples travel, a lot, as the normal course of surviving in the new land. For example in England there are sites that are pre-ice ages, where the people came in, stayed awhile, and then left as the ice moved over the land. When the ice left, (very likely) new people moved in. Even after the ice age(s), this flow of people moving in and out of England happend until England was finally turned into an island about 6,000 years ago (and even after that). The same had to be happening in the Americas, otherwise there would only be sites along the Northern West Coast, and nothing out East, nor into South America, nor in the interiors of these large continents. Since we do, then not all sites are ancestral to the local N.A. group. Probably most are not.

History Buff

@W F A lot of things are possible. That is my point. West Coast Native Amerians tend (not all) to push the fact that if the site is in their lands than it is made by their ancestors. All I was saying (poorly I see) is the site may belong to other people, not their ancestors.

W F

1y↑1

Why would the presence of human archeological sites in the eastern portions of the N.A. continent necessitate that those sites were created by people who had migrated from the east/modern day Europe? Surely it’s possible, but does their presence prove they migrated from the east? That seems like a logical leap to me. How long would it take to spread across the N.A. continent once in N.A.? The Lewis & Clark expedition only took 2.5 years. All this said, people definitely COULD have come from the East in some number. I don’t think the presenter says that that isn’t possible, just less likely than their theory. Lots of things are theoretically possible.

History Buff

@InBluesWeTrust Good point

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Cheeky Monkey

Have all the continents been separated as much as today and how would those distances have changed migrations, etc?

John Eyon

continental drift happens very slowly - there wouldn't have much of a change in distances between now and the archaic human migrations - much less modern humans - a bigger effect was the ice age sea level change

John MacCallum

2y↑2

I viewed a You Tube vid of a single pygmy killing a forest elephant with a spear. This man is off the mark in many places here. These are dart points used with atlatls not spears.

John MacCallum

@W F I took issue with many "facts" put forth here but only noted one. He's the scientist yet seems lacking on many points.

W F

How does that discredit everything presented here, almost two hours of content? You may be right on this minute detail, but how does that relate to everything else?

William Brandon Davis

2y↑1

@west ho an atlatl dart is basically an arrow and most people could care less about the difference. Is that hard to understand?

west ho

2y↑1

true, thats why they call themselves scientists. How many people mistake atlatl darts for arrowheads and spearpoints that are actually knives..

Anubis 11

Thank you

man

2y↑2

P.S.If you study european monarchs or even roman goverment.You will find that the christian doctrine.Is always adopted by the ruleing-powers.As a state/ruleing monarchy's Authorised Sponsored religion...Im just saying it's always seemed like a red flag to me.

WriteYourRepBrakeUpAlphabet

2y↑3

I think it's interesting that the professor A) lumped Italians into manifest destiny. I would like for him to point out the Italian and Irish characters.
B) mentioned that 19th century Americans would have been pro non-citizens voting. The violated treaties he alluded to were not signed by representatives of the same nation. Being "here" first was not the chief consideration on voting rights. Being a citizen was...A citizen not of a physical location but a citizen of the concept we call a nation.
C) Pretty sure that the pigs,dogs, chicken's and their diseases Aka Spanish first contact in the 1500s killed the Mound Buildings. The Cherokee speak of the moon-eyed people who were indigenous to their lands. A group they had conflict with and a group that was wiped out by the Cherokee. I've read over and over again. That between that first contact and the first explorations of the Chesapeake. That 90% of the population died because of disease. I wonder if he'll debunk the pox infested blankets.
D) population of Cahokia has nothing to do with the accomplishments of the Seminole nation or The Susquehanock Nation. They are distinctly different people's. Each interaction, positive or negative was an interaction with a different peoples. Not a genocide of the other because of the conflicts the other had. Jewish Apache bands unhappy with the Nation's treaty. Did not burn Hamburg to the ground while murdering the entire population. These two different, distinct and horrible episodes in human history. Share nothing more than the ugliness humans can perpetrate on one and other. To lump the entirety of the hundreds, of not thousands of individual nation's into one group by calling those unrelated atrocities regenocide. Is as racist an act as one can perpetrate and is propaganda. Just as he claims that the views of day. Negatively impacted our archeology. His political philosophy is negatively impacting his lecture. Joseph garbles would be proud Aristotle would be disappointed.
E) So it wasn't racism, it was an ignorance of Christian thought. Which is a primitive religious philosophy and saying that is nothing like the archaeologists he mentioned who thought the natives were primitive. Totally different smh... Also that primitive and destructive religion. Was combined with the enlightenment here in America. Which created the most free, prosperous and technologically advance civilization in human history....hmmm. No China is not on par with The United States. They are still committing genocide and not ones made up by racist professors. Who can only make the definition of genocide. If he convinces everyone that they Aztecs, Mississippian, Susquehanock, Hopi, Anasazi Blackfoot Sioux Cherokee Seminole Apache and the Iroquois Nation. Were all the same people. Smh...I hope his students are smart enough to see this for what it is....Male Bovine Waste.
F)...will edit.... comment if for my notes. Not for dialogue or defense of against cult members who may happen to read them. I will not respond to cult members. If you are curious as to what cult I am referring to. Don't worry about it. You won't believe it any way Just as the local German populations could not believe their own eye's testimony. When our American military ancestors showed them the death camps.

Bill Walsh

2y↑3

Did they not find a Hearth on a island off the coast of Washington DC dateing back 50000 yrs?

Jeffrey McNeal

If you want to talk about anthropomorphism, than talk about anthropomorphism. If you want to talk about competing evidence for a different time line of populating of the Americas, talk about competing evidence. I find the comingulation of the two muddy and hard to follow.

BTW, when I hear phrases like "...a whole bunch of scholars..." my eyes involuntarily roll back in my head. Sounds as succinct as invoking Ancient Aliens.

west ho

Achuelean Hand Axe. identical to Afro/Euro/Asia also found in the America's And like those ancient hand axes found in the old world so many are surface finds, not in strata digs, Same as North America..Scientists and arrowhead collectors always call them pre-forms..strange notion of pre-perfection.

Ferengi profiteer

2y↑1

I'm guessing these people found fossils too. I'd make a myth too, if I found a dinosaur jaw or petrified wood or sharks teeth or such.

akira nara

2y↑2

By the way, as for the First Americans, Ainu aren't indigenous or aborigine at all. They came in 12th century and no relation with First Americans theme completely. They are quite different from Australian Aborigine and American native Indians' situation. Related people for the First Americans are Proto-Japanese Hokkaido（PJH, Hokkaido Sojin）had lived there, northern part of Japanese archipelago, since 35-30,000 years ago though their bones haven' t been found yet. Similar peoples' bones were found in Okinawa, as samples of 36,000~27,000 years ago. On the other hand, their ancestors are famous for crossing sea more than 20km to collect obsidians at Onbase island in Tokyo islands since 38,000 years ago. Any way, it's not Ainu, but Proto-Japanese Hokkaido（PJH）or Hokkaido Sojin as the ancestral candidate people of the First Americans. These're well known matter about Ainu and ancestors, but really very strange of no mentioning from university scholars' side.

Debra Victoria

Have you brojen down the word Aborigine? Doesn't origine mean something like original? The ab would make it the opposite, like abnormal - opposite of normal.🤷🏻‍♀️

Bart Bullock

Are people aware how sharp obsidian can be????

Will Hovell

Fascinating , but slides too busy , and detracts from content . Excellent nevertheless

doctaugly d

Imagine hoe many people failed

Missouri mongoose

If anyone would like to see a unknown mississippian site checkout my channel, its a big rock bluff with red paintings of people, animals and shapes with 2 filled in caves, we were told it's a shrine to their underworld god

man

2y↑2

You know now they say all native americans.Came from just a few/small tribal Siberian oriental people's.But this (like the bible)iv always found more than a !"little"!unbelievable(common-sense).It seems to me.And it mite sound crazy.But mainstream science seems to be somewhat covertly christian influenced.
EDIT:After watching more or this video.It seems like the video.Is kind of saying the same thing as well.

man

2y↑1

r3d_aN@rX!$t I think you stated the nature of your own condition.

Irene Lamprakou

My name is EIRINI LAMPRAKOU. I live in VOULIAGMENI ATHENS GREECE.

RLJ at frogpond school

2y↑2

good morning.....i humbly ask.....do you know how stone tools were made....

Missouri mongoose

2y↑1

You need to sub to the hunt primative channel if u wanna know about that stuff my man

Nathanael Fosaaen

2y↑1

Look up "flint knapping"

Coyote Hump

2y↑2

It requires minerals that have a specific crystal structure so that when broken, they tend to cleave away in sharp edges. This is somewhat like broken glass. The edge of the rock is smacked with another rock in a specific manner to work the edges very sharp. some minerals used are flint and obsidian. I once cleaved a flint rock, pressed it against my thumb and actually sliced it fairly easily (I wasn't expecting it to cut me, it was that sharp)

voidremoved

2y↑1

it is a bit embarrassing. Imagine if you built a ship and flew to Mars. Then you get to Mars and find people living there. Then you start demanding to know where the Martians came from... Yet you do not even know where your own Earthlings came from.... Yet, you ignore that and keep insisting Martians explain themselves or you will take their whole entire planet and sell it to the people from Venus.... This is America.

Jarrid Forsyth

2y↑3

How come he briefly touches on how first world people came in probably at least 12 different waves... but then he called them indigenous ?? Im confused by the words you're choosing to throw around

John Eyon

"indigenous" is a relative term - not absolute - like "first" is

west ho

english words often have dualistic meanings, they always say things such as "i stand corrected" when there is no other explanation that adapts to their scientific theory. Or "what do you mean by that?" when they do not understand simple language..The people are the people. Many tribes names mean "the people", those people or we the people always state that we came from here.. I believe those people. Not the "new world" immigrants. who have no idea where here is.. but are so proud of where they came from in the "Old Country: Shundahai Timbisha.

Glade Goodrich

2y↑1

No such thing as a native American. Some just got here before others, but all came from somewhere else!

j clay

@EvenTheEevee some just have more African in em than others while some have more Neanderthal than others. Some can even use boats and shape flint better than others too.

Ferengi profiteer

2y↑2

@EvenTheEevee
I'm so white I'm pink and yeah, we're all Africans.
Boys and girls of the human race.

EvenTheEevee

2y↑1

so what you're saying is we're all africans? come on cut your bs

Christopher Hadin

the sound...horrible

Napalm Holocaust

"The first people"... I'm getting tired of this, this nothing phrase. America is post 1775. russia's grotesque behavior at it's supposed homeland proves these distinctions as political. If you want to give them an American name then think of the cruelest explitive. Its my blood too. Don't call me anything besides the time I live in and what it calls itself.

Blackbear Bear

2y↑1

Your wrong your map is wrong your wrong about everything just stop lying

W F

Lol

west ho

Hey bruddah, white man say "how" Ndn say "why?" We know how, no need to know why.. Their lies are merely incomplete stories about others they want to finish and own... Why we ask? Only the anglo knows how they come up with such partial truths passed off as whole realities. Shundahai, Timbisha