A bluesy, country rock song. Here's the video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pto8NKjrOKE

Written, performed and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage

Moved to the city, thought I was gonna
Dance in the street
But trying to earn a living, man
It's really hard to make ends meet
Abided by the rules, I didn't wanna
End up in chains
I played around and soon found out
I'd have to pack my bags again

Every child that was ever born
Just wanted to be happy and free
Though the world's gonna bring you down
It was on the ground that I found what I need

Food and love
Food and love, I can tell you that
Food and love
Is all I really need
Food and love 
Food and love, it's all about
Food and love
And I've been sowing seeds

I moved to the country, thought it'd give me
More time to sing
The real healing started
When I discovered gardening
It's so time-consuming, I gotta tell ya
It's just insane
A lot to learn, the blisters burn
But it's sure worth all the pain

Food and love, let's talk about
Food and love 
Food and love it’s all I’ll ever need
Food and love, it's all about food and love
Food and love
And I’ve been sowing seeds

Feels like I'm just getting started
Inspired by the people I meet
Each day's gonna mend my heart 'till a
Country girl sweeps me off of my feet

Food, food and love
Let’s talk about
Food and love it’s all we'lI ever need
Food, food and love
It's all about
Food and love
The future's bright indeed
Food and love
Food and love
Food and love

Words and music by Doug Jacobs  © Sacem 2021

Food and Love

Food And Love

Released by EMI France in 1989, this fictional work appeared in a French  movie for which I wrote the score.
Newly remastered by Steve Prestage. 
©Sacem 1989
Photo: Catherine Cabrol
Sleeve design: Francoise Demoulin

Back to the city

Back To The City (1989)

The B-side of the 1989 single 'Back to the city', I always preferred this song, the lyrics are as relevant to me today as when I wrote them, thirty-five years ago.
The song appeared in my score for the French film 'Sniper' in 1990.
Newly remastered by Steve Prestage.
© Sacem 1989

Such a long time

Such A Long Time (1989)

Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitars and bass
Adrian Bawtree: piano
Steve Washington: drums
Skye Chapman: background vocals
Arranged and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
© Sacem 2017

Two sons already so they'd hoped for a daughter
Still I grew up to be a regular guy		                                         			
Though I might not have been the apple of my dear mother’s eye
My dad he'd pour a little wine in my water
And I tasted all the other good things in life                 					
But I was a lonely guy before you showed me I could fly

It’s a long hard road, though I’d try to make it happen
My best intentions sent me down below 
A long hard road, always such a familiar pattern
I’m running blind and round and round we go

Angel, you've given me a little taste of love
But it really ain't enough
Just need a little more now
			
The first lesson I received about the birds and bees
I was four, she was five, we had our little secret on the side
Just kids finding out the things our folks could never talk about			
But truth and love would have to be as simple as the air we breathe   
If I was going to believe, and now I can't deny 
There's a reason I'm alive, it ain't by bread alone that I survive

Angel, you've given me a little taste of love
But it really ain't enough
I need a little more now
If I'm in such a different state of mind
Tell me how could love be blind, this time

There’s like a whole new world 
But it ain’t such an easy thing to say
'Cause when I see your wings unfurl
It takes my breath away	

Angel, you've given me a little taste of love
But it really ain't enough
That's all I'm living for now
You take me to a different space and time
So tell me how could love be blind, this time 
Angel, you've given me a little taste of love
But it really ain't enough

words and music by Doug Jacobs © SACEM 2017

Straight to the heart

Angel

Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitars, bass and keyboards.
Steve Washington: drums
Skye Chapman: background vocals

Arranged and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
Photo: Piero Orsola
© Sacem 2017

You know I've been thinking
Maybe I’m to blame for our separation
And I wish that I could change the situation
Before you walk out the door		
Baby, you know that there must be some way
To stay together
So our two hearts can play in love forever
That’s what hearts are beating for
			
Still want you, still need you
I try so hard to please you baby
Can't you see   
Still want you, still need you
Still love you
			 
It could be so easy
Let’s give it one more chance
It would be a fine thing
If we could save a sweet romance
So tender
A love like ours can be
If you can remember
The way it was with you and me
You'd say you love me, the way I do
You wouldn't go and tell me goodbye

Still want you, still need you
I try so hard, don't leave me baby
Sad as can be			
Still want you, still need you  
I know your heart will lead you baby
Back to me

You know there's so much more to say
But if your mind is made up
Then I'm not standing in the way of you leaving
And I won’t go on telling you

Still want you, still need you
I try so hard to please you baby
Still want you, still need you  
I know your heart will lead you baby
Back to me, it'll lead you back to me, it'll lead you back to me

words and music by Doug Jacobs © SACEM 1992

Still want you

Still Want You

Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitars, bass and keyboards
Paul Cheneor: flute and piccolo
Steve Washington: drums
Skye Chapman: background vocals
Arranged and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
© 2017 Music by Doug Jacobs, lyrics by Peter Whyte  © Sacem 1992

You’re saying 'I love you'
Do you know what that means
Is it just another                                                                                                                              
Of your never ending dreams                                                           
How can you say that 
It's right for you
How can you be sure of 
What is true
You'll know
In every way you could know
When you go sailing
On your own
                                                                                                                             
When you stand alone
Breaking up won't always leave you
Too far from home
'Cause you just need to find yourself
 
There's just a memory
Of something before
Floating far behind
On a distant shore
When she was lying
By your side
You could feel her drifting 
On the tide
 
When you stand alone
Breaking up won't always leave you
Too far from home
Just take a look inside yourself
Cut right to the bone
But breaking up won't always leave you
Out on your own
'Cause soon the tide will turn
 
There's still a memory
Of something before
​​Now so far away
On a long forgotten shore
'Cause she’s lying again
By your side
And she’s got you thinking
You’re home and dry​
 
When you stand alone
No matter how the wind may blow
Just make for home
And you'll sail right through the danger zone
I stand alone
​​And through stormy weather I’ve seen 
When you stand alone
A higher love inside of me 
A higher love
A higher love

music by Doug Jacobs  lyrics by Peter Whyte   © Sacem 1992

Stand alone

Stand Alone

Reggae pop rock! Here's the video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzi_HE1fN7I
Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitars, bass and keyboards
Steve Washington: drums
Skye Chapman: background vocals
Written and produced by Doug Jacobs  ©Sacem 1992 
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
Photo: Piero Orsola

Appeared in my soundtrack for French film Sniper in 1992

I'll tell you about my baby
Such a sweet love
She really could drive you crazy
 She's such a sweet love
                            
She fills the day with brightness
Right there in my heart
Things are better now that she's in the world

And wherever I may wander
 Every time I think of her
She makes me smile
 Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Even when I'm not around
For quite a while

I guess I must be enchanted
She's such a sweet love
 I never could take for granted
Such a sweet love

And wherever I may wander
Every time I think of her
She makes me smile
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Even when I'm not around
For quite a while

I'm telling you about my baby
The apple of my eye
And nothing means more to me than my little girl

And wherever I may wander
Every time I think of her
She makes me smile
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Even when I'm not around
For quite a while

Music and lyrics: Doug Jacobs    ©Sacem 1992

Sweet love

Sweet Love

Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitars and bass
Adrian Bawtree: piano and organ
Steve Washington: drums
Skye Chapman: background vocals
Arranged and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
Written by Doug Jacobs  © Sacem 1992

Through a window in the corner of my mind
​Is blowing dreams of all the things we left behind
​With all our choices open and we still have time  
​To begin again
​Gets me thinking of the days when we were young
​Still believing in the shape of things to come
​Though evil winds prevailed and clouds would hide the sun
​We'd begin again
​
Though tears have run like a river in my life
​Although the dreams end up all broken
​And worlds might fall apart
​I feel the love
 
​I won't tell myself the hill's too steep to climb
​Although I stumble through the darkness and the grime
​I'll pick up my broken tools, I'm trying one more time                  
​To begin again
​Get in again to love
 
'Cause tears have run like a river in my life
​And though the dreams end up all broken
​And worlds might fall apart
​I feel the love like a river in my life
​A river in my life
 
​I could not live without it
​Just to think before I was lost, and how
​'Cause what's it all about
​If it ain't for feeling love?
 
The tears have run like a river in my life
​And though my dreams end up all broken
​And the world might fall apart
​I feel the love like a river in my life
​And though the words might stay unspoken
​Right there inside my heart
​I feel the love

​Although I stumble through the darkness and the grime
​I won't tell myself the hill's too steep to climb

Music and lyrics by Doug Jacobs   © Sacem 1992

Tears have run

Tears Have Run

Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitars, bass and keyboards
Steve Washington: drums
Skye Chapman: background vocals
Arranged and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
Photo: Piero Orsola
Music by Doug Jacobs, lyrics by Peter Whyte © SACEM 1992

Now I do the best I can
I'm always at your demand
When you need what I can do
I need a call from you
If it's for love then baby that's for free
You know that you can count on me
If you're looking for some good advice 
Well don't  even think twice

Just call on your modern man
You know how I live and you know where I stand
I'm a modern man
Got loving to give you, more than anybody can
You know that I'm a modern man   
Yeah baby

It doesn't matter what you know
Or how far you think you go
And it doesn't matter what you see
I can't be you, and you can't be me
So if and when you've seen the light
And you know what's wrong and what's right
Don't go forgetting where I am
If you want to reach me you know you can

Cause I'm a modern man  
You know how I live and you know where I stand
I'm a modern man
You'd better believe we can start making plans
This modern man
He's got loving to give you, more than anybody can
I'm a modern man
Yeah baby  

Just give me a sign on the line
I'll get to you in record time
There's no use staying alone
Just get on the telephone
			
You know it's so easy it's a sin
Ther's only you and me and him
So if he isn't there when you call
Just remember I'm here that's all

Cause I'm a modern man
You know how I live and you know where I stand
If it's a modern man
That you wanna be with then just reach out your hand
To a modern man
You'd better believe we can start making plans
This modern man 
He's got loving to give you, more than anybody can
Cause I'm a modern man 
Yeah baby

lyrics: Peter Whyte   music: Doug Jacobs    © SACEM 1992

Modern man

Modern Man

Doug Jacobs: lead vocal, guitar and bass
Adrian Bawtree: piano
Paul Cheneor: flute
Matt Brown: violins and violas
Skye Chapman: background vocals
Arranged and produced by Doug Jacobs
Mixed and mastered by Steve Prestage
Words and music by Doug Jacobs  ©SACEM 1988

Pretty lady you know I fall for your smile
Pretty lady you were there all the while, in my heart
Pretty lady do you know the way I feel when we're apart?

I've been living on my own so long
But now I get the feeling I've come home
Don't you know it's 

Tailor made, baby this thing could last forever
Come what may, you and me will stand the test of time  			  
This is love

There's a game that we can play
And today's the perfect day to make a start
Oh yes it is

I'd been playing it alone so long
But never knew a feeling quite this strong
Heaven knows it's 

Tailor made, baby this thing could last forever
Come what may, we'll still be together down the line
This is love   
Tailor made, baby this thing could last forever
Come what may baby, you and me will always rise above
This is love 

Well they say that we need time to let it grow
But if they could read our minds they'd surely know
You and me were 

Tailor made, baby this thing could last forever
Come what may, you and me in all the world were
Tailor made, show them we will stay together 
Come what may, they'll know we’re gonna be just fine, yeah
Me and my lady we’re
Tailor made
Baby this thing could last forever 
Come what may
Show them we will stay together
Tailor made

Words and music by Doug Jacobs  © SACEM 1988

Tailor Made

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Singer-songwriter, composer and producer, living in beautiful France! 
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Un auteur-compositeur-interprète-producteur qui a vécu dans la belle France pendant de nombreuses années.
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Doug Jacobs

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