Very nice vocal lyric track..great acoustic guitar..brilliant captivating story..great strings..excellent mix & recording production!

You are a great writer man! The imagery of the window and mirror is just so good. Beautiful song!

Takes me to old Eagles - sad song about cheatin', cryin', regrets & lying.  Great writing.

this sounds really good Doug/Johnny, and Doug this is a great register and delivery for your voice;  and it's a good song too

collaborations with and by other artists for my lyrics....
most of these songs were recorded originally by me.
and can also be found on my soundcloud
please let me know iy you are interested in doing
collaborations.. on many of my material...

DOUG ROOSSIEN COLLABORATIONS

This was played recorded and mixed by Nick Olman
I wrote the song and it sounded great here's my link...
http://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/what-destiny
here's Nina's link to her music...http://soundcloud.com/padruna


this was an aborted attemt several months ago, to prepare for a duet that was going to be the first of many collaborations with Nina...Do to time costraints it was never perfected...Well I'm sitting here trrying to share songs witha mini=voice recorder. So Nina...surprise its time to share this puppy...and when someone want to put the prodution forth on a duwt as we planned will do it up right then


What Destiny?  (The duet)…Words and music by Doug Roossien

Wind and the /waves...blow your /dreams far a/way…(Doug)
as the /last leaf of /Autumn’s…/hits the /ground 
It’s a /wild wicked /wind...  your / course it will /sway 
your /tears freeze to …/snow falling down   

You must /stand/to your ground…/hold to your shore (Doug)
As those /jagged rocks… /pound on your /soul  (*Nina add anything) 
Your /music’s gets lost…in its /own melody…(*anywhere you think)
as it /cries ...(forevermore)…(Nina) *on this verse)
What destiny? (Nina &  Doug)

(chorus) slower spread out)
What destiny…is in these clouds… tonight. (Nina & Doug)
As I /search… that //horizon…for…/light /
Will I find love?...true true love?   
Is this just a dream…not my destiny 

The stars… in this /sky…are follow/ing…you and /I (Nina)
And the /moon’s playing /strings…on our /hearts 
The /tides rising /up from this /storm full of /love 
Been so long…I not sure …where to start 

Should I s/tand to my /ground…hold /on to my /shore  (Nina)
Let those jagged rocks…/pound on our /soul…
As the /music gets lost…in its /own melody…
as love /cries ...forever/more {stretch your beautiful voice out here}
What /destiny?…(Nina & Doug)




What destiny…is in these clouds… to/night.  (Nina & Doug)
As I/search on that //horizon…for…/light //
/Will this be /love?...t/rue true /love?   
Is this /just a /dream…not my /destiny 


The /wind and the /waves...blow your /dreams far a/way…(Doug)/
And the /last leaf of /Autumn’s…/on the /ground 
It’s a /wild wicked /wind... and your / course it will /sway (Nina)
And your /tears freeze …/to snow… falling /down  

You must /stand/to your ground…/hold to your shore (Doug)
as those /jagged rocks… /pound on your /soul 
let Your /music’s gets /lost…in its /own melo/dy…\(Nina)
as it /cries .../forever/more {stretch your beautiful voice out here}
What /destiny?…(Doug)


What /destiny…/ is in your /arms… to/night…(Nina & Doug)
as I .wish upon the .starlight in your .eyes…
will /you /still.be /here…in the /morning when I /rise…
or are you /just a  /dream/ 
not my /destiny/
my destiny 
be my destiny


the end phrasing is just Nina..
(.just like you did the first time…awesomeness)


What Destiny ...orig by Doug Roossien ...featuring... Padruna

Track two from the new solo album 'Automatic Karma Situation' in collaboration with the Verulium project, full album on bandcamp:

amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/auto…-situation

Thanks to all for listening and for your much appreciated support! :)

Automatic Karma Situation

The Endless Void Is Absolute

Vocal Copyright Nat Daniels 2022
Lyrics and Melodic Composition Copyright Andy Hall & Gary Brown
Produced by Andy Hall

I was thrilled when Andy and Gaz invited me along on this collaboration.  The Lyrics are beautifully written and sung by Gaz and lends itself to great story telling. It was lovely to join him and to bring my creative spirit in harmonisation to the table.  Andy wrote the beautiful melody and created the gorgeous Instrumental track (which has a hauntingly beautiful Guitar solo) and then brought it All to life with his incredible Production / Mixing skills, breathing life into the song,  and giving it a depth of sound to make it "sparkle". 

I urge you to check out these talented folks' individual page links below..
Ladies and Gents.. I give you the Conscience of Kings.   

Noobly :  https://soundcloud.com/noobly-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Gaz Brownie :  https://soundcloud.com/user-755327533?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Lyrics:
Our Devine intervention - Gary Brown and Andy Hall.

Standing on the bridge
Staring into the water
(I’ve kept you waiting
An hour and a quarter )
My Head tells me to leave
My hearts a little more naive
(We’ve had 27 days apart
To rekindle this flagging heart )

Chorus
Our Devine intervention
When we had each other’s attention
To were I love being yours
And you love being mine
Our Devine intervention
Needs to work for us this time

V2
Finally you arrive in your own chaotic style
(So my car went and broke down
And i walk the last 3 miles)
I get the big puppy eyes
And a cute little sorry sigh
(What lies beneath in this rivers deep
Are the same things in the
secrets we keep)

Chorus
Our Devine intervention
When we had each other’s attention
To were I love being yours
And you love being mine
Our Devine intervention
Needs to work for us this time

V3
(Let’s stand back to back
Walk in a different direction)
If we just keep right on walking
Then we have lost all affection
(If we both look back and then we stop
We won’t lose what we’ve got)
Well I stopped and looked back
(I kept walking down the path)

Chorus
Our Devine intervention
When we had each other’s attention
To we’re I loved being yours
And you loved being mine
Our Devine intervention
At least we know now this time

Divine Intervention - Nat Daniels & The Conscience of Kings

There is good and evil in each of us. We see this every day, looking inside ourselves, into our heart, into our soul, into our inner mirrors. Sometimes we see good there, but sometimes evil.  I want to dedicate this track to all the good people who gave their lives in this eternal war. In a sense, this track is a requiem for the passing World, as I knew it.

Inner Mirrors

It's been a while since eddyoffline and I did a collab.  Mostly because he's always offline.  This one finally came together though.  I have never really played Reggae before and it shows. Thanks to eddy for sending me this track.  He plays an awesome bass in this as well as a solid rhythm guitar to hold things together.

Reggae-ish

Reggae-ish - with eddyoffline

TEARS YOU JUST CAN’T CRY- by DOUG ROOSSIEN /Produced & Mastered NO KILLIE FISH July 15, 2022
https://youtu.be/9zhMAECbZRo youtube video

Johnny has done so well on three of my other songs ,…Never Sailed Goodbye, Sad River and Goin’ to Hell,…that I really anticipated him producing this song. Over two years, this song sat in my heart waiting to be expressed properly. It took a bit, I’m not the easiest person to work with, with my inexperience and the distance across the ocean. But Johnny’s patience won out again, I think. ENJOY!! 
Thank you Johnny!! https://soundcloud.com/johnnymc2

https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/never-sailed-goodbye-mastered-featuring-no-killie-fish

https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/sad-river-final-mix

https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/goin-to-hell-doug-roossien-music-mastered-no-killie-fish


EV’RY DREAM…you EVER HAD 
WAS REAL, until the Morning 
EV’RY TRUTH, you Ever Learned 
you FORGOT… Behind Closed Eyes 
EV’RY PLAN, you Never Made … ev’ry CHANCE, you MEANT to Take 
Turned to Tears ... TEARS, you Just Can’t …Cry 

All the things, you thought, you wanted 
Back, when this … began 
Choices made, that you can’t change now 
If you could you’d choose again 
You gambled hard, lost on love… sometimes LIFE’S a tragic PLAY 
Turned to Tears ... Just won’t go away 
Man, you don’t … know why 

Why you … STARE OUT, through that window 
LIKE … There’s SOMEPLACE… you should go 
And there’s Someone, in that Mirror, … You just don’t know 
You’d be livin’ all … ALONE, but your… REGRET, lives in your SOUL 
And you stopped crying for your freedom long ago 

Tonight, he’s … LYING … there beside you) 
With the … choices … that you made 
You’re holding … Blankets Cold and Lonely 
Hearing words … no longer said 
Till all the … Days seem like forever… and you wish they would just end 
Sleepless nights … too late … to pretend  
That … you don’t … know why 

So, you … STARE OUT, through that window 
LIKE … There’s SOMEPLACE… you (could) should go 
And there’s Someone, in that Mirror, that … You don’t know 
You’d be livin’ all … ALONE, but your… REGRET, lives in your SOUL 
And you stopped crying for your freedom long ago 
You stopped trying for your freedom long ago 

EV’RY DREAM, you EVER HAD 
WAS REAL, until the Morning …… words & Music – Doug Roossien

TEARS YOU JUST CAN’T CRY- by DOUG ROOSSIEN /Produced & Mastered NO KILLIE FISH

A big thank you to https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx for playing nearly all instruments, arranging and mixing, it was a  pleasure to collab.

Lines in inverted commas quote René Girard (1923 - 2015), also the title of the song points to him.

The picture shows a section of a photography showing men at Ascot (taken out of NZZ).

Mimetic Desire

Man is the creature
Man is the creature

„Man is the creature
Who does not know
What to desire,
And he turns to others
In order to make up his mind.“ (2)

Don't let the darkness blind you
Don’t let the blindness guide you
Even if it is full of shiny, 
Mimetic desires

Maybe there is still 
A shadow of a hope out there
Isn’t there still somewhere
A shadow of a hope ?

Let me have it, let me, let me have it
Let me have it, let me, let me have it

Don't let the darkness blind you
Don’t let the blindness guide you
Even if it is full of shiny, 
Sparkling, mimetic desires

„We desire 
What others desire
Because we imitate 
Their desires."

Maybe there is still 
A shadow of a hope out there
Isn’t there still somewhere hanging out
A shadow of a hope ?

Man is the creature…
Man is the creature…

Don't let the darkness blind you
Don't let the blindness guide you
Don’t let the darkness blind you…

Mimetic Desire (ft joerxworx)

Under a deep starry sky

"Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1952. It is regarded as one of country's most important standards. My Dad loved Hank Williams...my first time trying to sing this classic.

Your Cheating Heart - Cover by Tony

shizoku

You can not use any of this music without permission

Il Volo

What would a night be without shining stars?
Hear them singing here:
https://soundcloud.com/lemonadelove/will-this-last-forever



Will this last forever ?

This is the first full production recording mix ...
of this song written by Doug Roossien. 
All production and instruments by Nick Olman production.  May 8, 2012


When your troubles leave you weary...Lay your mind on flowers blue...
One’s that take you someplace...Where your dreams...they wait for you...
When you're just… too tired to bother…With the noise and all life's… toil...
Lay your head on those blue flowers…In those fields of quiet soil.

You can walk… yes, you can wander…But you can’t outrun … the truth…
You can’t live with all your troubles…But when you die…they’ll go with you…
Take just one moment…from your lifetime…Smell the roses…see the blooms
Lay your head …on those blue flowers…In the fields of quiet soil

Beneath that aging oak tree…  Where my grandpa’s laid to rest…                 
Grandma’s there beside him… Hear those robins in their nest
And the sun is shining down… Upon…waves of amber gold
Next to…flowers blue… In fields of quiet soil

Oh mother, how I miss you…Beneath these flowers… on your grave
I need to know…you’re waiting…For me…to come… someday…
When I’m  just too damn tired…to bother…With all this noise and all life’s… toil…
Then I’ll lie beneath blue flowers…In your fields of quiet soil

"FIELDS OF QUIET SOIL"...DOUG ROOSSIEN/ NICK OLMAN

Guitar, production& mix by Nick Olman
sung by the fabulous Aramelian Angel
http://soundcloud.com/aramelian_angel

I just want to hold your hand
Look into your eyes again
I want to see...the soul in you
I want to show... you...my soul too

You know I want to ...lay...you down
We could make love...tonight ...on this cloud
I want you to know...we can take this slow
When you’re ready...just let me know

Till then...I ’ll just......hold your hand...
Let our ...eyes...make love again
Play the music slow...soft and low
Two lonely hearts...come in from the cold

TILL THEN by DOUG ROOSSIEN (duet with LAMARA)

Doug Roossien words and music. vocals 
how romantic ...can you be? ...never ask a poet that

Whisper your name…over and over 
Until Sierra…the word becomes a song 
I kiss your lips…and promised to be tender 
Is it the wind…or my love…you’re breathing in
I love you
Sierra…it would be romantic 
We would walk…at night along the shore 
Lie on the beach…right down near the water 
We’d spend hours…and the  only song we’d played
…was I love you
Sierra…my oa sis…I drank…from your  love 
Now Sierra. ..You’re the dessert…and it’s a long way to walk
Sierra…Sierra…hear this  song…I wrote  for you 
I  love you…
Looked in your eyes…I just saw heaven 
Picked wild flowers for your auburn hair 
Up in your room…we could see the moonlight 
Paint a silhouette…love shadow on your wall 
As I loved you…I loved you…Sierra..I loved you 
But…Sierra…my oasis…I drank… all your love 
Now Sierra.. You’re the dessert…and it’s a long   way to walk
Sierra…Sierra…hear this song…I wrote for you 
I love you…I Love you…Sierra…I Love you

SIERRA (My Oasis) DOUG ROOSSIEN, NICK OLMAN //w, Emma Shanley, Sam Kenny, Nick Olman

Thanks to the wonderful Bethany Sky Whitman for agreeing to record my song "Tulips in April"
She provided all the playing singing and wonderful lead guitar and background
We may someday try this as a duet ... hope you enjoy

she is relatively new...but not new to playing writing and singing...but she has some original tracks of her own at ...http://soundcloud.com/bethany-sky-whitman

lyrics...

Tulips in April was an early love of mine 
we lived the seasons till the winter killed the vine 
when the snow lay on the ground all the world was chilled 
wishing there were tulips on the hill

We raced the sunshine...followed raindrops... 
to the sea... 
Loved every minute...we could steal... 
while they were free 
That was then..and if I knew...back then... 
that you would leave.... 
I'd anchor your love...deep...within the sea.

There was silver... in the stars... 
we wished upon...those summer nights,,, 
and gold dust settled softly... 
from that moon's eternal light... 
and the prettiest pink...a rose would know... 
laid petals...on your face... 
but the colors of our love...would fade away...

Tulips in April was an early love of mine 
we lived the seasons till the winter killed the vine 
then the snow lay on the ground all the world was chilled 
wishing there were tulips on the hill

Thanks for listening


Tulips in April ...(by DOUG ROOSSIEN) ...sung and played by Bethany Sky Whitman

YOUTUBE VIDEO......"FIELDS OF QUIET SOIL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyYHjxPPBgc 
YOUTUBE VIDEO(NEW) ... "POCKETFUL OF LIES "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9vAZQgmN4

SOMEDAY THE WEIGHT OF THIS YEAR ON MY LIFE WILL BE AN ALBUM FULL OF PAIN,... BUT, RIGHT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE I'M CENTRALLY LOCATED IN HELL

1987 WENT TO Nashville for a “short week” Music row to make the big time … wow … nobody listens in lawsuit land in those days. 1988 WENT TO NASHVILLE for 3 days (surely, I would crack this puzzle and become famous …) so many on benches in front of churches. Frustrated, didn’t sing publicly again basically for 25 years. (after all, where would a singer/song writer, make a name for himself in Karaoke land).
2010 discovered open mics (new world begins). WRITING SINCE …a lot! Had someone to produce me in limited acoustic style for a couple years…I think a few were damn good “Fields of Quiet Soil”. Had a lot of offers to write lyrics and/or sing for a lot of other artists here. (but no recording capability …let alone a decent computer for my own. TODAY, THINGS CHANGE …I’m here to make an impact (got 4 new ones under my belt recently) …plus some old ones you will not be disappointed listening to. Welcome old music fans and artists., potential serious collabs.
I’m locked and loaded this time!
FB Doug Roossien

TEARS YOU JUST CAN’T CRY- by DOUG ROOSSIEN /Produced & Mastered NO KILLIE FISH

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