Better believe (Tinsel Town in the rain) 
© 2013 dogman songs

All is lost   to be found    homeward bound
Memories    upside down   in Tinsel Town 
Time to believe  a deceit   feet on the ground
Got to believe   Believe    

Closing Time  drunks and lovers  staggering home
In shop windows  see a lone wolf    another one
Empty streets  disbelief   you might be gone

Got to believe     Believe   it’s time to leave 

Ghosts live    in the rain   they shape and shift
Hollow walls   steep incline   sinking ships
Time fades  silent lips   waits for this …. Waits for his

Better believe Believe Better believe   or it’s time to leave 




Better Believe Dogman ft Mikans demo

BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL (lyrics © Dogman songs 2012)

This is not a rat race   you can’t have it all

This is a not rat race    backs against the wall

This is a not rat race   the Good Lord made it all

Rich get milk n honey the poor get nothing at all

		
	You can have it all    US shopping mall

	massive 4x4s    stores cards for them all, for them all

This is not a rat race..

This is a not rat race,    you don’t have to run at all

all things bright n beautiful  All things great n small

This is the human race       See the flags unfurled

Why keep up with those Jones  in a material world

	You can have it all 	cat, dog n goldfish bowl 

all things bright and beautiful   creatures great and small

This is not a rat race       you can’t have it all

This is not a rat race   they shoot the ones who fall

But you can have it all 		

creatures great and small

all things bright and beautiful 

BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL 'DEMO TWO'  THE CROSSBREED

Pre-Raphaelite Girl 

(lyrics © Dogman songs 2010)

You were a Pre-Raphaelite girl 
but where are you now Anne Urquhart  
You left me that night   time for College     to study art
Fragile and feminine   (I remember) that shy smile from within 
Oh Anne Urquhart    You broke a heart  

But that was all those years ago - does your face still glow
Fragile bones    fragile skin - snow white  - you were skinny thin 
Pre-Raphaelite Girl - dumped me that night - in the rain  
but you were right

You had a kind soul  
I asked you to stay - but you told me no
I pressed you - asked you to say - but you turned to go
You were the one     your tumbling curls - out of all those girls
You broke my heart - Anne Urquhart

but that was all those years ago - 
who knows if your face still glows
Fragile bones   fragile skin - snow white -  you were skinny thin 
Pre-Raphaelite Girl   you dumped me in the rain - that night 
but you were right...



PRE-RAPHAELITE GIRL   THE DOGMAN MIKANS DEMO

LYRICS CHANGING FOR NEW VERSION COMING SOON ..

The Yarrow Valley Incident	
(lyrics reproduced by kind permission © Dogman songs 2011)

It was a bad day when a Man with a badge said 
“ We need you boys handcuffed and bagged” 
“Shut your mouth, shut your engine down 
We’ve been looking for you boys - all over town.”

Looked us in the eye, “Big trouble” he said
“Been an accident and somebody’s dead 
I smell alcohol and maybe dope in there 
Out the veh-icle with your hands - up in the air” 

We didn’t know - what he meant 
He just kept - talking ‘bout 
the Yarrow Valley Incident

(I said) Hey there mister, this surely must be a joke
All we’re doing here is having a smoke (it’s)
A free country and we know our rights 
But the Badge Man had us dead - in his sights

Down at the station a detective in the know 
Said we been set up and were free to go
Same ve-hicle - same colour - same plate
Cloned for a crime in a bad ass estate

It was a bad day when a Man with a badge said 
“ We need you boys handcuffed and bagged” 
“Shut your mouth, shut your engine down 
We’ve been looking for you boys - all over town.”

But we were innocent
of The Yarrow Valley Incident


THE RIVER COUNTY INCIDENT   THE CROSSBREED AND BILL J FLYNN

This is a rush demo of a new Dogman song with Treatment by Mikans


FLOOD TIDE

© 2012 dogman songs

I can’t breath     Can’t leave    I can’t breath     Can’t leave

When love wants me to believe    Wants me to believe    to believe




I can’t say     I can’t stay       I can’t say     I can’t stay 

Then you look at me that way    look at me that way      That way




I won’t fight      Won’t ignite         I won’t fight      Won’t ignite 

you shot me down tonight       shot me down tonight    Down tonight 


I can’t breath     Can’t leave    I can’t breath     Can’t leave

When love wants me to believe    Wants me to believe    to believe




Flood... tide 

FLOODTIDE DEMO (DOGMAN FT MIKANS) THE CROSSBREED

DOGMAN AND MIKANS COMBINE AS THE CROSSBREED TO PRODUCE A NEW TAKE ON A CLASSIC NEIL YOUNG TUNE...

Don't let it bring you down (Neil Young cover)

DETAIL picture of Great Famine sculpture taken by Dogman - aka David Sands - in County Mayo

lyrics

POVERTY AT THE GATES 

© 2012 dogman songs

There’s an enemy at the gates 	
poverty dressed in rags    hollowed-out eyes 	
empty worn-out hands 	hungry waifs

The rich have all ass’s milk 		
lighting fires with £50 notes
While the have nots     
are poor missing out     On gravy boats


and one day, 		an angel will come down     
a shot will ring out and the rich will be blown to Kingdom Come

and one day the mild will come down
take cake and wine    and the meek will no longer be dumb

come on people

There’s an enemy at the gates 	
poverty naked and cold    bone hands held out, 	
lost poor souls 	stand and wait

The rich have all ass’s milk 		lighting fires with £50 notes
While the have nots     are poor missing out     On gravy boats

and one day, 		a sniper will come down    
a shot will ring out and the rich will be blown to Kingdom Come

and one day the mild will come
take cake and wine
and the meek will no longer be dumb

POVERTY AT THE GATES 2013 DOGMAN feat MIKANS

 Newton’s Musick

© 2013 dogman songs


Can you hear it      		Newton’s delight  

Major 6th here			Rays of light	


Sounds shades 		Bound in waves  

Seven spectral  		vibrating octaves
  	

In the ether 	in the air       	Newton is there


Can you hear    		A new Progression

Bound in waves		vibrate in heaven


in Wavelengths 		visions extreme

Mathematic sounds		Newton’s dream



In the ether 	in the air       	Newton is there


NEWTON'S DELIGHT  THE CROSSBREED DEMO 2013

THE CROSSBREED is an accidental musical cross-fertilisation. 

The coming together of musicians, 'Dogman' (David Sands), a singer songwriter based in Lancashire, and Mikans (Matt Baker) originally based in Japan, was written in the stars. 

‘Mikans’ is a Japanese word for oranges (without the plural). Dogman is so-called because of his day job as an animal behaviour specialist. Dogman heard a wonderful instrumental composition by Mikans on MySpace called ‘SpaceFall’ and decided that it would ‘paint’ a superb opener for his lyrical poem, ‘Signal to Mars - The Eerie silence’. The poem forms a message to Professor Paul Davies Chair of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) More about this project another time. 

Within a month, there were many exchanges of song ideas and at the same time in 2010 Dogman was studio recording for ‘The Whisperer’, his first album for nearly 10 years in a Nelson with Mr Smith of Audiofile. One of the early Dogman tracks  ‘Home Fire’ (featuring Mikans on Rhodes) was first played by Tom Robinson on his BBC6 Music radio program ‘Introducing unsigned on the net’. Neither Mikans or Dogman could have imagined that great moment when they first began exchanging music. 

With The Whisperer album completed such was the interchange excitement between them that Dogman shared a number of unfinished demos of new songs and older tracks from his two earlier albums, ‘The Emotional Jukebox’ (2000) and ‘Keep the blood running’ (2001) for re-mixing and extending. ‘Heaven’, on both albums, did not capture the happiness that Mikans brilliantly achieved in his 2010 re-mix. Matt played Rhodes and re-mixed the original track to include in the sound of Japanese children playing. 

Dogman’s first self penned acoustic song (written in 1971), ‘See me through’ has now become a dance tune! ‘Like an Inca’ (from Keep the blood running) is an epic tribute to Neil Young. This new 2010 re-mix track still includes the guitar skills of talented Jazz-Americana musician, Matt Wells as it was played in 2001.

Mikans eventually returned to England and he and Dogman met and talked about the future. Since that time a number of new tracks have been developed. These will be uploaded to Soundcloud eventually.

THE CROSSBREED

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