Written approximately between 2000 and 2002, this is one of my earlier compositions. After writing it and playing it back through my notation program, I was divided about what the feel of the music portrayed. On one hand, I thought it sounded like some adventurous dude that was capable of anything, swinging from one adventure to the next. On the other hand, it reminded me of maybe some introduction music to an old 60's detective show like Manix with a speedy car chasing down the highway. I never could decide, so it became Metroman a.k.a Manix's Car. Unfortunately, I didn't look up how Mannix was spelled and used an incorrect spelling. Two N's, not one, who knew?

Copyright 2002

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Metroman

I wrote this song in 2002. I play rhythm guitar and sing on this one, but it was recorded over tracks I wrote in a notation program called Music Write 2000. The instruments sound a little cheesy compared to what is available today, but it will do for these purposes. A song about the mundane and the need for escape, a change to get back on track. Lyrics below:

Great Big Ball

Flip flap holy crap
Feel like I could snap
Here we go, feelin low
Here we go, NO!

Beehive, I’m alive
Dancin to that Jumpin Jive
Here we go, feel the low
Here we go, Thanks Joe!

Forget what’s needed and take a break 
Enjoy my life for goodness sake
Turn up the tunes and let em go
Got my ducks all in a row

I know what I want to do
Grow a big beard and a mustache too.
Move far away beside a lake
Meet some people who are not fake
Think we have a real good time
And soothe our minds

Ship shape, feel awake
Feelin better since my escape
Don’t-cha-know, take it slow
Watch it grow….YO!

Push, shove, look for some love
You and I fit like a glove
To and fro, we will go 
Head to toe, you’re a pro

Got thrown on this great big ball
Billions and billions can make you feel small
Big ones, tall ones, small ones, a fat man
All thrown together to see if we can

Be nice, mind our manners too
Feel what it’s like in each other’s shoes
Tell you what, you’ll get your fair shake
If you live inside an earthquake
Find some way to unwind
And soothe your mind.

Copyright © 2002

Great Big Ball

This is one of my old songs from 2003 that I have rewritten. A lot of it was written using Notion 6 notation software. I play drums on this song and I sing the main parts. I also play an accompanying guitar on the chorus to give it a little more weight and fuzz. The accompanying vocalist on the chorus and backing tracks are sung by my friend, Bill McWaters. His oohh's and aahh's are sublime! This is a song about being labeled by people who don't really know the details of a situation. It is also a recognition to liberate one's self and a realization that labels from others are not what make you who you are. A pursuit that you need to stand up to those people and have them remove the labels they have placed upon you. Lyrics below

Copyright 2003, 2025

Lyrics

Hey Mister
Take that sign off my back
Hey mister
Take that sign off my back
What you put it there anyway for
What I did to you well I’m not quite sure
Does it make you feel like
I am to blame
Shame on you

You keep telling me
all the things that are wrong with me
If you want me to
I’ll show you what is wrong with you
Preying on the sick and poor
That’s how you get your kicks for sure
Fang sting rattlesnake burn
It’s gone half circle it’s your turn
Taking your own medicine can sure taste sour
You’ll need a full dose of it to reduce your power

Hey stranger, you got an opinion bout that?
Hey cuz, you got an opinion about that?
I’m sure your gonna tell me anyway
Shoot your mouth off, let’s get it out of the way
Tell me again how you’d get it done
Your amazing.

Everybody knows how to live my life
How I made it this far, must been your advice
Tell me once again, whoooa
If it wasn’t for you I’d of never got through
I think I could blow my top
Feel like given it to ya but then I stop
It’d make me just the same as you
Telling anybody everything I knew
Saving everyone even though they don’t ask
Better watch your step cause we can see through your mask

Hey Mister

This is a song I wrote when I was a younger man with a young family contemplating life and providing for a family. It's about being in the present and realizing the choices you've made and making the best of them whether you're struggling or in a good spot. Up a tree is more reflective of having some fear of the future rather than being caught in a bad situation.

Lyrics:

Up A Tree

Cat caught up in a tree 
Oh no wait it’s only me 
There is only one way down 
To Make it back to the ground
Pick a straw
It’s the shortest
Luck of the draw
You do your best

Please won’t you wait for me
I must plan things carefully
To ensure that we’ll be fine
All good things will come in time
Hands of fate
Are upon us
Now we’ll just wait
Till it’s unfolded

Truer words were never said                         
They rattle round inside my head                  
Don’t worry about tomorrow now                     
We make it through each day somehow         
Remember what                                                
Is important                                                        
All you have                                                         
Is just borrowed 

All the years pass quickly by
Oh my how time does fly
It truly amazes me
We simply cannot see 
How we should 
Treat each other
Time is a gift                                                
Let’s use it better

Words and music by Dave Dobson
Copyright © 2003, 2025

Up A Tree

Quite simply, the oboe reminds me of a desert.

Copyright © 2004, 2025

A Walk Through the Desert

This is a song about external interferences in your everyday life which then contrasts into what it is like when you are free of interference and can concentrate on things which don't create anxiety in life.

Words and Music by David Dobson © 2003, 2025.

Sad State

Simple pleasures of life, for my children and wife
We struggle each year to hold onto our share
Still there’s people with nothing, stone cold and suffering
Where do they go Who provides them with care
Terror and tension, Sweeping through nations
An uncertain time you can see that it’s here
When we are young the world is still fun
Let us go back we will see it so clear

Flying high above, I clear my mind
of all the fear I’ve stored over time
I’d love to find a place where we can go
Restore ourselves to who we are
Remember all the good that you once felt
When you were small and all the things you saw
excited you
Please take me back, I’m sure that there’s a way
I’ll go with you

Stare into space an expressionless face
thinking of money and the governments waste
Kept down by leaders, who are liars and cheaters
Justice is blind they prove it each day
Reports from the radio, newspapers and tv’s
It’s all sick or sad, nothing good would sell
How much more can we take, for goodness sake
It will take a miracle to make this world well

Sailing on a lake I sing a song
A beautiful day you feel you can fly
Let the sails take us away to free our souls
A perfect blue sky as far as you see
Remembering everyone you’ve ever known
who were kind to you, taking time to see you through
I long to be free to spend more time
Naturally

Sad State Mixdown - 02 Start

Lyrics

Prisoners of Economy

A note I keep in my shirt
To tell me the things that I should do
Was numbered to 25
So I ripped it in half and came to you

We should jump in the car
And drive somewhere far away
To see what we’ve been missin
And laugh at what we’d done
Chorus:
Goodbye, I can see
Something calling me
Goodbye, lets not be
Prisoners of economy

The note I keep in my shirt
Fell into the fire and I was free
I broke out of those prison walls
Ran to your arms and held you to me

We should jump in the car
And drive in any direction
To see what we’ve been missing
And laugh at what we’d done

Music and Lyrics by David Dobson © 2003, 2025

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