Author: Doxter S

Backdoor by Doxter S on Apple Music

Backdoor by Doxter S on Apple Music

Crimson Studios is proud to announce a new release – Backdoor by Doxter S.  This song was inspired by an idea given to me by my friend Bobby McDavid who’s late father was a self-taught mandolin, guitar, and harmonica player from Gate City, Virginia, and was the founder of the Munsey Bob McDavid Bluegrass Band. He was invited  at the age of 6-years old to perform on stage at Carter’s Fold with the great Bill Monroe. The lyrics I created are loosely based on notes for a song that never had a melody. I think Bob McDavid the elder would have liked how this turned out.
Listen to Backdoor by Doxter S, one of 73 original songs, on Apple Music and Spotify.

Backdoor (of my Heart) by Doxter S

(Refrain 1)
You Sneaked in through the backdoor of my lost and lonely heart
And you Tried to make a big fool out of me
Broke my Family and my home, left me poor and all alone
You Left my heart in pain and misery
(Verse 1)
You took Everything I had, but that’s Not what gets me mad
First you Robbed me then you tried to ruin my name
Now I Stay here in this place, I’m ashamed to show my face
I’m a Broken man, and I have you to blame
(Refrain 1)
(Verse 2)
You broke Every vow you made, girl I Know when I’ve been played
First You Promised then you cheated and you lied
But if You try something slicker on the backdoor of my ticker
You will Find that sucker’s locked from the inside
(Refrain 2)
You Sneaked in once before using the Backdoor of my heart
But you Won’t sneak in again so easily
It’s not Like it was before ’cause it ain’t open anymore
That Backdoor’s locked and you don’t have the key
The Backdoor of My Heart Won’t Open Anymore
(Attributed to Bob McDavid)
You sneaked in the backdoor of my heart,
And made a fool of me,
You broke up my home,
And my family.
You broke every vow you made,
You cheated and you lied,
You’ll not get through that door again,
It’s locked from inside.
You took everything I had,
And tried to ruin my name,
That’s why I sit here all alone,
My head bowed down in shame.
You think you can walk right in again,
Just like you did before,
But the backdoor of my heart,
Won’t open anymore.

​

Stay by Doxter S on Apple Music

Stay by Doxter S on Apple Music

Stay by Doxter S is one of 73 original song written by Doxter S and produced at Crimson Studios in McLean, Virginia. Now available for streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.

This beautiful love song in G-Major can be performed by either female or male lead. A piano provides the foundation. The cello and contrabass alternate legato and pizzicato. There is syncopation between the instrument voices.​

The instrumental intro, with piano, cello, and contrabass, is happy. The melody for the first and second verse, sung by Sara, is plaintive. Each verse has a tension building bridge. The second verse follows the first bridge immediately. (The original score separated them with a repeat of the intro).​

The chorus is commanding, strong, with a positive vibe. The use of the B-Major in a single phrase of the chorus adds unexpected urgency to the lyrics. (This production was transposed to D-Major, so F-Major provides the tension). ​

The first and second chorus are separated by a vocalized version of the intro melody. This is again upbeat, happy. The second chorus has different lyrics. Following the second chorus is a repeat of the instrumental intro. The song ends with a repeat of the first chorus on a happy note. ​

Lyrics

You meet me at my garden gate Wonder why I was so late
Had to dry my tears Don't think that I was crying

I know some women can be strong Take whatever comes along
If I spoke like that You'd know that I was lying

We tried to talk about it Always seemed to end with shouting
We can't forgive ourselves for Indecision, always doubting

Your visit comes as no surprise I can see it in your eyes
That you just stopped by to Tell me you are leaving

I knew one day you'd want to go Knew how I would miss you so
I prepared myself but Seeing is believing

We had our share of sorrow Just like modern day romances
I see a new tomorrow I believe in second chances

Stay with me, don't leave please Stay with me 
What's in your Heart is all that matters, Baby Can't you see?

Stay with me and hold me Tenderly and 
I will smile and dry my tears If you just stay

I believe there are second chances You and me, Modern day romances
People can discover When they love each other

Stay with me, why don't you Stay with me 
What is it Out there that would take you far away from me?

Baby we were happy Can't you see, so drop that
Bag and close the door will you just stay

Stay with me, don't leave please Stay with me, what's in your
Heart is all that matters, Baby Can't you see?

Stay with me and hold me Tenderly and 
I will smile and dry my tears If you just stay

Dancers by Doxter S on Spotify

Dancers by Doxter S on Spotify

Dancers by Doxter S is a dance fantasy with a latin beat. This song evokes the nightlife in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the tango dancing that originated there.

Traveling through the mountains in western Virginia we were listening to local college radio from UVA. As we crossed to the western slope the station changed to a latin program from West Virginia entirely in Spanish. That was the inspiration for this song. Initially I wrote something more humorous with a Mariachi style. I placed that aside and reconfigured the melody into a Tango style instead. The lyrics and title are changed as well.

The singer recalls her experience as a tourist and the lasting impression that stays with her. She carries in her memory the dancers that so impressed on her the beauty and grace of the Tango. She dreams of herself becoming a tango dancer in Buenos Aires.

Dancers by Doxter S includes the traditional instruments used for the tango. The familiar Bandoneon is an essential component, along with latin percussion using conga, wood blocks, and tambourine. A cello and acoustic bass complete the instrumental support for this tango dance.

Lyrics

Instrumental Intro 
 
It was not many years ago  
I flew away to Argentina  
In Buenos Aires for the Summer  
I found an open air Cantina  
I tasted wine and sampled Tapas  
The cobbled streets were filled with couples  
 
I watched the young tango dancers perform in the square  
They moved with beauty and grace they seemed lighter than air  
 
Instrumental Break 
 
One special dancer caught my fancy  
She was a raven haired romantic  
Her flashing eyes and pouting boca  
Made every movement look dramatic  
Her partner held her in possession  
They danced together with expression  
 
I felt the music they danced to was played just for me  
Their every movement was perfectly timed to the beat  
 
Long Instrumental Break 
 
I see that dancer when I'm dreaming 
And how I wish that I could be her  
When I was younger I was wiser  
I saw that beauty was inside her  
The music carries like a whisper  
I dream that I am dancing with her  
 
Next to a garden with flowers that glow in the light  
I would be dancing for hours the moon shining bright  
 
Instrumental Break 
 
Play the music that they dance to just for me 
 
Instrumental Break 
 
It seems so many years ago  
I flew away to Argentina  
In Buenos Aires for the Summer  
I found a open air Cantina  
I tasted wine and sampled Tapas  
The cobbled streets were filled with couples  
 
I was a young tango dancer alone in the square  
I moved with beauty and grace I was lighter than air 
 
Instrumental  
 
Buenos Aires Argentina in my dreams 
I still dream I’m dancing tango in the night 
 
Outro

Butterfly by Doxter S on Apple Music

Butterfly by Doxter S on Apple Music

Butterfly by Doxter S on Apple Music started out sounding like a nursery rhyme song. The opening melody is very fanciful and sweet. The quintessential nature of the butterfly is her transformation from caterpillar during metamorphosis. This transformation needed expression in music.

The Butterfly in this song continues her transformation into a human social butterfly. The melody also changes abruptly to reflect the new and exciting life she is seeking. The backing of the violoncello transforms into an overdrive electric guitar with percussion from a full drum set.

Butterfly is one of 73 original songs available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.

Lyrics

I am just a butterfly  Feel Free  
Painted wings on purple flowers  Real Me  
I emerge from my cocoon  Hide Me  
After all the April showers  Seek Me  
You will see me flutter by  Hold Me  
In the garden there for hours  Feel Me  
 
But when I'm in the mood  
I shed my innocence  
I’ll dance around the moon  
I only need the chance  
 
Butterfly Butterfly trying to multiply  
Everyone satisfy on my mind in my eye  
I go out in the night everything is alright  
As I dance in the light of the moon  
I'm a Butterfly just a Butterfly  
I'm a Butterfly of the Night  
 
I'm a social butterfly  Friendly  
Painted lips and big eyelashes  Lovely  
I won't stay inside my room  Lonely  
Grab my phone and my Sunglasses  Meet Me  
Everybody passing by  Find Me  
Turn their heads to watch me dancing  See Me  
 
And if I'm in the mood  
I lose my innocence and  
Dance around the room  
I go into a trance  
 
Butterfly Gratify Please be my Alibi  
Private eye Counterspy Don't need to justify  
Butterfly Lullaby Mystify Me  
 
Butterfly Butterfly trying to multiply  
Everyone satisfy on my mind in my eye  
I go out in the night everything is alright  
As I dance in the light of the moon  
I'm a Butterfly just a Butterfly  
I'm a Butterfly of the Night  
 
Butterfly Gratify Please be my Alibi  
Private eye Counterspy Don't need to justify  
Butterfly Lullaby Mystify Me 
 
I am just a butterfly  Feel Free  
Painted wings on purple flowers  Real Me 

Details by Doxter S on Apple Music

Details by Doxter S on Apple Music

Details by Doxter S is a Jazz-Blues song in Em that tells an ages-old story about the morning after – with a hangover of epic proportion. The instrumental phrasing alternates between keyboard and guitar. The rhythm is syncopated with the bass and piano echoing each other. The outro repeats the final statement of the chorus.

Details by Doxter S is number 69 of 73 new and original music written, recorded, and produced at Crimson Studios. Available on Apple Music and on Spotify.

Sounds Like: John Mayall, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Van Morrison

Lyrics

You wake up from another party smoked and drank all night 
Your head is spinning, ears are ringing, eyes can't stand the light 
Remember music getting louder, dancing, doing lines of powder 
Met a woman with her date. You got into a fight. 
 
You had too many cocktails. You went too far. It's time for you to go. 
The Devil's in the Details. She's pulling all the strings now. Don't You Know? 
 
She may have been your soulmate, or your fantasy I guess 
A curvy shape with lengthy legs wrapped in a satin dress 
A pretty face with hair like flame, but you just can't recall her name 
A sexy voice and flirting eyes, she made your mind a mess 
 
You've fallen off of the rails. You won't get far. You don't know where to go. 
The Devil's in the Details. She's pulling all the strings now. Don't You Know? 
 
Instrumental 
 
She's just another female. You've come this far. You don't have far to go. 
The Devil's in the Details. She's pulling all the strings now. Don't You Know? 
 
You try to find your pants and shoes you're in a strange hotel 
Misplaced your keys and wallet and you start to feel unwell 
There's water's running in the shower, shampoo scent of spice and flower 
Just a silhouette of her you've fallen in her spell 
 
Attempting to escape fails. But you're not trapped. You got nowhere to go. 
The Devil's in the Details. She's pulling all the strings now. Don't You Know?

Handmaiden by Doxter S on Spotify

Handmaiden by Doxter S on Spotify

Handmaiden by Doxter S on Spotify and Apple Music is a fanciful tale of a young romantic renaissance teenager.

This is one of 73 original song written, recorded, and produced by Doxter S since 2012.

The melody is in the Key of A with Mixolydian scale. The intro and bridges are simple arpeggios of this scale. The instruments include strings, harp, hand percussion, tambourine, and triangle. The setting is in a Tudor Garden in Renaissance England.

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Lyrics

Just seventeen, the handmaiden to The Queen 
Was out strolling though the gardens of Tudor 
Daydreaming now, she performs a royal bow 
She is dancing at the ball with her suitor 
 
She's twirling higher, higher, higher in the air 
She's twirling higher, higher, higher lady fair 
 
A lowly Squire is her object of desire, and she 
Hopes that he will spy on her dancing 
Handsome and bold, if the truth were to be told 
He will be a knight one day, she must fancy 
 
He'll take her higher, higher, higher in the air 
He'll take her higher, higher, higher lady fair 
 
Caught in her dreams, the young squire so it seems 
Has arrived upon the scene with a stallion 
A winged steed they both mount him as he kneels 
All at once the three take wing like a falcon  
 
They're soaring higher, higher, higher in the air 
They're soaring higher, higher, higher Lady Fair 
 
They're soaring higher, higher, higher than the trees 
They're soaring higher, higher, higher than the clouds 
They're soaring higher, higher, higher than the moon 
They're soaring higher, higher, higher than the stars

Sounds like Enya, Secret Garden, Sinead O’Connor

An animated music video is currently in the works at Crimson Studios in McLean, Virginia.

Masquerade by Doxter S on Spotify

Masquerade by Doxter S on Spotify

Masquerade by Doxter S is one of 73 original songs now available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music

There was never a time in recent memory when everyone we know suddenly become phantoms, as we are to them. The entire world placed on a curfew, lock down, socially distanced and emotionally isolated. The impact of recent events will far outlast the so called invisible enemy of which we have become terrified.

Masquerade by Doxter S tells the story from an all too familiar perspective. We are all trapped but desperately crave freedom. The melody is sweet but the lyrics are biting. The chord changes build up to an emotionally charged bridge and defiant chorus.

Lyrics

When the music stops
Everybody dancing please just keep your mask on
Keep your gloves on
And just walk away

I don't want to talk
Really feeling distant from the life that I knew
Feeling so blue
Like to fade away

And every time I try to remember why I just can't hold back the tears
I think about the ways in the good old days when we never had such fears

Want to go back in time, we were doing fine, want to stay outside, let me feel the sunshine

We're Masquerading We're Isolating This social distance Is so frustrating
This is Degrading Not Liberating We're imitating We're Masquerading

Going for a walk
I am feeling social and I just want to talk
Take the mask off
Leave my hideaway

When the madness stops
Everybody living please just keep your head on
Make yourself strong
Everything's Okay

Recall the good old days With our social ways When we never had these fears
Let's all go back in time We were doing fine For so many, many years

We all can stay outside In the bright sunshine We'll be feeling fine We can write the headline

Stop masquerading It was stagnating The social distance Needs some updating
It was degrading Not liberating Let's put a stop to The masquerading

I want to stay outside don't want to hide I've got my life to live
With all the people I've been missing they have so much love to give

Anticipating our liberating the social distance is quickly fading
We are parading and serenading for human comfort that we are craving

We are not waiting we are creating the social fabric of our own making
Let's stop debating procrastinating let's put a stop to the masquerading

When the music stops
Everybody dancing please just take your mask off
Take your gloves off
Live your life your way

Connection by Doxter S on Spotify

Connection by Doxter S on Spotify

Connection by Doxter S is a love song that starts out slow but will quickly get your heart beating double time. This is one of 73 original songs available for streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.

The acoustic bass and Violoncello are both melodic and percussive, with the piano bass providing gentle arpeggios of the simple chord progressions.

The lyrics include a syncopated vocal echo of the phrase “I know” that is set up first by the pizzicato violoncello.

Doxter S has written, recorded, and produced 73 original songs here at Crimson Studios in Northern Virginia.

Lyrics

Is it in your eyes ?
Is it in your smile?
In the way you kiss my lips
Lingering a while

Little things you do that connect to me
Like a little bridge no one else can see
Pulling me in close irresistibly
You are changing my sensibility

It's been going on
For a long, long time
I complete your sentences
Or do you start mine ?

We can feel our hearts beating double time
All my thoughts are yours All your thoughts are mine
We can take things fast We can take things slow
You know everything, everything I know
I know, I know, I know

I know I,
I have waited a long, long time
I was searching to see a sign
To discover a soul like mine, like mine, like mine

There is chemistry between you and me
It's the way you hold me so tenderly
I can feel your calm and serenity
Fibers of emotion connect to me
Is it sensory Or telepathy
This connection must be our destiny

I can hear a song
Playing in my mind
Then you start to sing along
Happens all the time

Little things you do that connect to me
Like a little bridge no one else can see
You have always been everywhere I go
You know everything, everything I know
I know, I know, I know

I know I,
I will always be by your side
And our conscience will be our guide
And we never will have to run, to run, to run an hide

There is chemistry between you and me
It's the way you hold me so tenderly
I can feel your calm and serenity
Fibers of emotion connect to me
Is it sensory ? Or telepathy ?
This connection must be our destiny
Must be our destiny

Better Days by Doxter S on Spotify

Better Days by Doxter S on Spotify

There has been a lot going on in the last 2 years. What seems to be an upheaval in societal relations may be part of a natural evolution of human thought. Better Days by Doxter S provides a musical representation of these troubled times. Better Days by Doxter S is one of 73 original songs available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.

The melody is in a minor key that adds pathos to the relevant lyrics. Despite the melancholy there is also great hope. The song begins and ends with the word “Pray”. There is hope fore redemption in this prayer. There is optimism for humanity.

Pray
At night I pray for better days
We turned around and lost our way
It's getting darker every day

The world is colder
There is no room for compromise
If we could open up our eyes
We'd see the sun about to rise

Through stormy weather
New days are dawning
We stand together
A new belonging

It won't take long
To make things right for every wrong
We must remain steadfast and strong
Before a storm there is a calm

Let's come together
We still have choices
If we sing proudly
They'll hear or voices

So let us pray
Pray for a life of better days
Days filled with love
Love and respect in every way

We must stay strong
And everything will be Okay
It won't be long
Before we see some better days

[Bridge]

When we were younger
We were much stronger
We had no hunger
Not any longer

Stand side by side
Without the prejudice and pride
We need our goals to be allied
Let's put our politics aside

We stand together
We are united
Out human spirit
Is reignited

So let us pray
Pray for a life of better days
Days filled with love
Love and respect in every way

We must stay strong
And everything will be Okay
It won't be long
Before we see some better days

So let us pray

Million by Doxter S on Apple Music

Listen to Million by Doxter S on Apple Music

Doxter S created this upbeat Merengue style song intended to be performed by a female vocalist. Listen to Million by Doxter S on Apple Music. This song was number 34 for Doxter S, who now has 73 original songs available for listening on Doxter-S.com & Spotify, and can be downloaded from Amazon.

Lyrics

 You say you can't live your life without me 
 You think that love will bring you ecstasy 
 You tell me you will be faithful to me 
 For a Million Years 
 For a Million Years 
 

 I see your eyes always gazing around 
 for some new sweet thing that you think you've found 
 But your selection by nature was bound 
 By a Million Years 
 By a Million Years 
 

 For a Million Years For a Million Years 
 For a Million Years For a Million Years 
 For a Million Years For a Million Years 
 

 I don't believe I can hold you above 
 I’m not that person that you're speaking of 
 But if you wait for me I'll be your love 
 In a Million Years 
 In a Million Years 
 In a Million Years 
 

 In a Million Years In a Million Years 
 In a Million Years In a Million Years 
 In a Million Years In a Million Years 
 In a Million Years In a Million Years