Here is a video sample of a new instrumental I am working on called "Feeling Good".  I hope you like it.

Feeling Good (Sample)

After losing my father to cancer and my mother to dementia I've seen so many changes and know how one can be rocked off their feet and displaced, empty inside filled with dismay.  Let me be here to tell you that there is something you can count on... and that's change.  It won't be forever what you are going through, there will always be change, especially if you help make that change.

Change

Do you know is a track about your day of reckoning when you make peace with everything and come to terms with all the wrong you have done, if any.  It's also a place where we always find ourselves wanting to give back.

Do You Know?

This track is about the loved one's we have lost that no longer live with us in the physical form.  If it were not for our love and respect for them they would not live on through us

LYRICS:

It's been a long time
been a long time
since I've been here
been a long time 
been a long time 
since I've been home

since I've seen your face 
since I've seen a trace 
since I've been home

nothing in this world worth having comes easy 
nothing in this world worth having comes easy

been a long time
been a long time
since I've been here
since I've seen your face 
since I've seen a trace 
since I've been home

been a long time
been a long time
since I've been here
since I've seen your face 
since I've seen a trace 
since I've been home

nothing in this world worth having comes easy
nothing in this world worth having comes easy

been a long time
been a long time
since I've been here
since I've seen your face 
since I've seen a trace 
since I've been home

nothing in this world worth having comes easy

Nothing In This World

When it's raining outside for some people their depression gets the better of them and this song portrays that and deals with that.  Your mind is the most powerful organ in your body and can take you anywhere you want to go.  Be in control and take yourself some place nice

This track is a rough sample

Sunshine & palm trees

This song is about all the pressures we feel upon us for putting off all of our passions to pursue a job instead to pay the bills like everybody else.  Many years later deciding to record a song explaining how silly it must be to even think about pursuing a music career at my age.  No stars in my eyes, just cathartic closure

Better late than never

We all fall down and we all get up again, some times we don't find the right person in our life and we stay single for a long time before we gain enough courage to take the chance of being abused again.  Trust is a hard thing to find after you've been burnt a few times.  

But when you do find that someone special again.... it's so easy, there is no guessing, no questions... then before you know it, you're falling again.

Falling

Seph was a young man that died just outside my window on his motorcycle after hitting a vehicle he couldn't see.  He was only 19 years old.  His family home was only blocks from mine.  Every night they came with candles and crying with the odd emotional fit.  I felt it so deeply that I went down to meet them and comfort them.  I brought more tea lights and played my guitar for them but mostly I listened to them.  I learned what a beautiful loving family they are and what a wonderful young man Seph was.

During the end of this song you will hear traffic driving by as I recorded this with an open microphone on the patio just off Foster and North.

Death On Foster

RoadKill Diner

State of mind is about letting go of the physical world and all of it's possessions without physically leaving this world.  It's in this self awareness that we find peace, enlightenment, knowledge, contentment, oneness, a bond with everything and everyone.  Learning that we are all extensions of each other is a big part of this awareness.  In that awareness we are able to see the importance of communication, trust and love for each other and our ENTIRE human race.  We are all one.

State Of Mind

Song writer, producer, guitarist, instrumentals

John Douglas

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