Lovely sounds...:) great tone in the vocal...:)

Powerful song Doug and as I type,there is the World's biggest storm hitting the Phillipines....memories here and your lyrics are stunning.Wonderful voice and writing sir...a truly beautiful but sad song. Peace :))

Love this song and your heart is in the right place today. Thanks for sharing Doug.

So compassionate, Doug. Playing your track just now is synching with images on the evening news of the devastation.

G7 C7
I guess I’ll live a little longer 
at least until my mom goes too 
I guess I’ll be a little stronger 
and prove to all of them I grew 

chorus:
Am7 
growing pains still have a reason 
D7
make it through depression season 
G7
hurting reminds us we’re human 
Em7
maybe it’s the end that’s looming

Am7 
looking for the serotonin 
D7
or a friend that I can phone in 
G7
all the drugs that I’m consuming 
Em7
I think that the end is looming 
Am7 D7 

verse:
G7 C7
I guess I’ll get my life together 
I’m getting older now, I know
I’ll pay attention to the weather 
the shit you do when you are grown 

chorus:
Am7
I know we don’t have the answer 
D7
hold me closer, tiny dancer 
G7
reaching out to all our exes 
Em7
hang on to our god complexes 

Am7
searching for the main attraction 
D7
taking drugs instead of action
G7
growing pains still have a reason 
Em7
make it through depression season 
Am7 D7 

G7  C7

depression season

finally posting a song that isn't about my dog 

Hatikvah

Diamonds In The Dirt

Another Day

Words and Music Doug Faigel

Chorus:

G – G/B – C –Am – C/G – D7/F#

G – G/B – C –Am – C/G – D7/F#

I can’t wait another day
Until I hear you say
That you’ll love me for all time.
And if you ever go away
If you promise that you’ll stay
I can love you for all time, the best of times

G – G/B 

Verse:

C – D – Em – C
Em7 – D –Em – C –C/B –Am-C/G – D7/F#

The best of times are spent quietly alone
Just the two of us together, I’ll disconnect the phone
The best of times is so easy to achieve
If you’ll just have faith in me than in you I’ll believe

Chorus

Verse:

The best of times I can touch you in the night
Though the velvet dark envelops I have no need for sight
The best of times cannot be so very far
Every nadir has a zenith and I’m drawn by your star
The best of times

Bridge

G – G/B – C – D – D7

Em – C – Em – C – Em7 – D 
Em - C –C/B –Am-C/G – D7/F#

We made it past the tide we made it through the storm
Some said our love would die but here it’s safe and warm
The rocky slope was not so difficult to climb
From the bottom of the canyon to the top you’ll find…

Chorus
Ending

Another Day

The Fabulous Chris O is here https://soundcloud.com/chris-okunbor 

DON'T PUSH BABE
I’m on my own again 
Tired of pretending it’s ok, that 
you’re most likely on your way

Babe you know I love you true 
It’s been one helluva a long day so
won’t you just say you love me too

You buy me bangles, diamond rings but
I just want the simple things under the moon 
like there’s no tomorrow

Get off that blue trail to the stars 
I don’t like your friends nor their lalalalas 
You moving further makes me hollow

You know I have waited 
Wasted time that you never updated 
Falling apart for the Queen of my heart

I don’t want no crown, don’t string me down 
Don’t need no fancy blings
Just gotta get out and do my thing

This ain’t no tale about fame and glory
Much more like my whole life’s story
Oh how can you want me to let go ?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve known 
all along that I could never tame you
But who’s that guy in your latest song ?

Those tender words of love, they burn 
right through my soul, they grip tight to that guy 
won’t bring me anything but sorrow

The guys in my songs are always you
No matter what I try 
So get a grip and quit this wallow

Don’t push Babe 
Don’t do me wrong 
[I don’t intend to do you wrong]
Don’t push Babe 
Are you that strong ?
[and I‘m as strong as the day is long]
Though I may not like you much today 
I keep crawlin’ back here anyway 
[I will be waiting for you here anyway]
Don’t ever say you know what’s true 
[one thing I know is true]
when you don’t even know that I love you 
[is that I love you]

Chris O & mOag - dOn't push Babe - [Electric-rOOt-mix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ll4oiUFzE

Greater Truth
Music and Lyrics – Doug Faigel
June 2019

G – Cm – G – D7
                        I know that

G		Em	     Am		     D7
Seeing’s not believing in matters of the heart
G		         Em	     		C		    D
And knowing is not feeling your way to higher art
    Bm				Em	           Am			D
I’ve seen the highest summit and I have feared the fall
      G     	      	    C		      G	
To a greater truth inside of us all      
D7
 There’s so
G		Em			Am	     	    D7
Much I want to tell you if I only had the words
G			Em				C		     D
Something that was said to me half-forgotten and half heard
Bm					    Em		         		Am			D
When you reach your highest summit, when you answer to your call
  G				C	          G
There’s a greater truth inside of us all

  Bm				    		C
And when the moon is shining across the widest sea
  Bm					C
Its light illuminating and inspiring you and me
  Am			           	D
To reach out and know that we:
                                                                      D7
					We know that
G			Em	      Am		     D7
Seeing’s not believing in matters of the heart
    G		     	Em		         C		       D
And knowing is a feeling you don’t get until you start
    Bm			   		Em	         Am		D
Up that mountain to the summit, heeding to your call
G		      	   C                  G
Of a greater truth inside of us all


Bm – C – Bm – C
    Am				D
Just reach out and know that we:
						D7
                                                            We know that
G			Em	     Am		     D7
Seeing’s not believing in matters of the heart
   G		         		Em         		       C			D
And knowing is not feeling when you’re grasping for your art
   Bm		         		Em     		Am		     D
A mountain’s just a summit that you climb and try not fall
        G      	       	    C    	     G
To the greater truth inside of us all

        G			  Cm                G
There’s a greater truth inside of us all

Greater Truth

Original Song by Doug Faigel
Only by losing everything do you discover what is truly important.
This song was inspired by the aftermath of the recent Hurricane.
 
When the wind came howling
The roof blew away
The rain fell down in sheets
And they fled in the night
A frightful sight
The water rose up to the eaves
Now I think of my life
Of my daughters and wife
It’s amazing how little I need

All that winter we spent
On our neighbor’s farm
In the few rooms the old man had free
But we each had a bed
And were never unfed
We always had clothing and heat
And though we were crowded
Sometimes we shouted
It’s amazing how little I need

I know it’s not much
But when you shrink from my touch
And our bed grows as wide as the sea
But what cannot be cured
Must be endured
It’s amazing how little I need

Now a year has passed
And we’re back in our home
But nothing’s the same you’ll agree
What we cannot rebuild
Will be left unfulfilled
Long after the waters recede
Though I’m ebbing and flowing
I know where I’m going
It’s amazing how little I need

It’s a truth I can’t hide
Though sometimes I’ve tried
It’s amazing how little I need

Now I think of my life
Of my daughters and wife
It’s amazing how little I need

How Little I Need

A Song for the End of the World
Doug Faigel 2020

I was shopping at Walmart
My marriage broke up
And my eye went blind
Just when I woke up
I thought I had made it
Became the made man
But I was flipped by pandemic to the fire from the pan

And that song from that band that I think we all know
It’s the end of the world and so we must go
And Bono was singing his truths he unfurled
But I kept talking bout the end of the world

Hard things are harder
The easy things, too
Like squeezing toothpaste
To the brush fro m the tube
And I speed in my car
Down the old 101
With my one good eye staring straight at the sun

And that song by that band, are they called REO?
It’s the end of the world don’t you know it? We know
And U2 they spoke and their truth rocks they hurled
But I kept talking bout the end of the world

And new things I’m learning like cooking with wine
I speed down the freeway I can’t read the signs
The whole world is burning but I really don’t mind
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

And new things I’m learning like justice ain’t blind
I speed down the freeway I can’t read the signs
The whole world is burning, I really don’t mind
Cause it’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Yes yes
It’s the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine.

A Song For The End Of The World

Edge of All I See

Lyrics and Music by Doug Faigel
2020

Chasing me down this highway
It’s hard trying not to weep
Everything’s just gone sidewise
I fear I’m in trouble deep
Gliding beneath the flyway
Chasing the autumn geese
Running along this byway
Trying to find some peace

Like a knife sticking in the ground
Its edge glints in the sun
I’m riding onto the precipice
My engine wants to run

[First time:]

In the shadows looking down
Is the place I want to be
Running on the edge of all I see
Riding on the edge of all I see.

[repeat}

[2nd time:]

In the shadows looking down
Is the place I want to be
Running on the edge of all I see
Riding on the edge
Riding on the edge

Chasing me down this highway
It’s hard trying not to weep
It wasn’t yours it’s my way
Love wasn’t ours to keep

In the shadows looking own
Is the place I want to be
Running on the edge of all I see

In the shadows looking down
Is the place I want to be
Running on the edge of all I see
Running on the edge of all I see
I’m riding on the edge
Riding on the edge
I’m riding on the edge of all I see

The Edge Of All I See

The World is Flat
Words and Music by Doug Faigel

B9

F#m
The world is flat
E
Stereoscopy’s a lie
F#m
You see the map
E
There are no shades of black and white
F#m
You smell a rat
E
Those moon men were just a lie
F#m
Report it stat
E
JFK is still alive

Chorus:
A                                  C#m
You don’t believe the things you read
B                              C#m   B
You don’t respect society
A                                        C#m                   B
You think the things that you believe are true
A                      C#m
I don’t trust a thing you say
B                                   C#m   B
But still you say them anyway*
A                          C#m                    B        
Repeating a big lie don’t  make it true

*Last chorus: Someday soon they’ll make you pay

You’re anti-vax
No one will be needling you
Alternate facts
That’s what you get watching Fox News
I’ll take the cue
Anonymously I’ll text you
You want to sue
Everyone who crosses you

Chorus

Conspiracy 
It infects my Facebook feed
Don’t hash tag me
With your fake news that no one needs
Society
Subjugated to be freed
But can’t you see?
Conspiracy is killing me

Chorus

The world is flat!

The World Is Flat

I am a singer songwriter from Scottsdale, AZ. 

My primary instrument is voice, but I play guitar and a little keyboard. I play a Martin 000C-16RTGE acoustic, a Fender Stratocaster and an Ibanez Gio bass. My keyboard is a Yamaha PSR3000. I record through an M-Audio interface onto a Mac using Logic Pro.

My approach to songwriting is fairly straightforward. I begin with the chord progression and the hook. My songs usually have a strong chorus. Lyrically I prefer songs that communicate emotion or tell a story.

Please feel free to download my songs!

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