Author: Doxter S

Dorian by Doxter S on Apple Music

Dorian by Doxter S on Apple Music is now available for streaming.

Oscar Wilde, the nineteenth century Irish romantic poet and playwright, is probably most famous for his novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. The Faustian story line relates to a full length portrait of the eponymous Dorian who makes a wish that his portrait would age instead of himself. ​

Dorian by Doxter S on Apple Music

Dorian by Doxter S is a fantastical interpretation in music of this Gothic theme. Dorian appears at various times and places chasing after a dream-like companion. The mood is mysterious, the music intoxicating, and at the end Dorian and the music fades away.​

Lyrics

Lived so long, seen it all, Dorian, you don't age

The first time he walked into the place
Was a different man, a different face
People drifting in people drifting out then he heard the sound of a woman shout
Just exactly like in that dream he had that has set the music on fire

The next thing he knew he’s on the stage
With a different girl, a different age
Dancing to the rhythm all syncopating a pounding beat was intoxicating
He felt his heart was alive again it was burning with desire

She had fiery eyes and glowing face
They we're in a passionate embrace
He could smell the scent of her sweet perfume as they danced in circles all around the room
There was music playing inside his head and his mind was all in a daze

They were headed through an open door
Walked into a room he’d seen before
There were velvet curtains all in a line flowing burgundy like a Bordeaux wine
Then they started running with hand in hand through a never ending maze

Lived so long, seen it all, Dorian, you don't age
Hear my song, Dorian, hear the words of the Sage

Now they’re in the palace at Versailles
In a ballroom lined with mirrored tile
Marie Antoinette and The Brothers Grim as Rasputin laughed with his wicked grin
As the music waned and the pictured face Dorian is fading to grey

And he wondered if it ends this way in a
Different place on a different day there was
More to see there was more to do only time would tell change his point of view
See it's relative if you make it last Dorian was fading fast

Dorian turning grey as your mind fades away
Hear my song let it play won't be long fades away
Won't be long fades away
​

Bargain by Doxter S on Apple Music

Bargain by Doxter S on Apple Music

Doxter S has 73 original songs on ReverbNation, also available on Spotify and Amazon. Doxter S published 12 new songs in 2019 (Butterfly, Dancers, Form A Line, Amazing, Mountain, Everywhere, and Dorian) and continues in 2020 with Bargain.

Bargain

Bargain by Doxter S is a soulful and lamenting song about a love that is well beyond it’s Sell-By Date.  The theme is reflective of the happier early years of romance that give way with time to eventual resentment and the ultimate demise of the relationship.

Bargain by Doxter S refers to a Lover’s Bargain that exists in many idealized love affairs that seems to ignore the true risks and realities of life and love.

This lover’s lament is in the style of a ballad in 6/8 rhythm accompanied by piano, pedal steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, and violoncello. 

Bargain by Doxter S sounds like: Willie Nelson, Dan Tyminski, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash.

Butterfly

Butterfly by Doxter S 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.

Daybreak

Daybreak by Doxter S is a madrigal style polyphonic composition with 3 vocalists accompanied by piano, cello, violin, and music box.

Dancers

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.

Form a Line

This upbeat song has more energy and less sweetness (than my last wedding song) and will get everyone crowding the dance floor dancing vigorously singing and shouting along with the band.

Amazing by Doxter S

Doxter S has taken inspiration from “Amazing Grace” to create a totally new and original song simply entitled “Amazing”. Sung by a choir, with instrumental accompaniment, Amazing by Doxter S picks up the tempo and lifts the spirit even higher than ever before possible.

This is an upbeat revival style song that echoes the traditional song Amazing Grace in one refrain, but has it’s own upbeat character that will bring the entire congregation to its feet.

Amazing by Doxter S uses pounding percussion, lively hand claps, a variety of spiritual verses, and unforgettable chorus sections. The church organ, electric bass, and electric piano join tied percussion section in support of the choir. The effect is, in a word, Amazing!

Mountain by Doxter S

We were seated at a local Family Restaurant in McLean, Virginia and noticed the middle of the benches were higher. We laughed because we have a similar hump in the middle of our well used bed at home. I described it as a Mountain between us and we both laughed.

I decided that was enough to write a song describing the way couples can become separated even when they are together. This is a very soulful, melancholy love song that I sing with acoustic guitar.

Everywhere by Doxter S is an upbeat, latin rhythm, inspirational song dedicated to a very happy new couple starting out their new life together with a dance and a promise to keep traveling and dancing together, leaving behind all the worries and complications of daily life.

Dorian by Doxter S is a musical interpretation of the Gothic novel by Oscar Wilde – “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Dorian appears at various times and places chasing after a dream-like companion. The mood is mysterious, the music intoxicating, and at the end Dorian and the music fades away.

You can stream all original music by Doxter S from Crimson Studios by going to the music page. Many of these original songs are accompanied by unpublished versions with a different mix or lead singer.

Handmaiden by Doxter S on Apple Music

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

This is the 70th 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.

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.

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. Million by Doxter S is available on Apple Music. This song was number 34 for Doxter S, who now has 73 original songs available for listening on Doxter-S.com 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

Butterfly by Doxter S on Apple Music

Butterfly by Doxter S on Spotify

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.

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 

Masquerade by Doxter S on Apple Music

Masquerade by Doxter S on Apple Music

Masquerade by Doxter S is now available for streaming on 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 XAM Life Radio

Connection by Doxter S on XAM Life Radio

Connection by Doxter S is a love song that starts out slow but will quickly get your heart beating double time.

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

Details by Doxter S on Apple Music

Details by Doxter S on Apple Music 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.

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?

Connection by Doxter S on Apple Music

Connection by Doxter S on Apple Music

Connection by Doxter S is a love song that starts out slow but will quickly get your heart beating double time.

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 Apple Music

Better Days by Doxter S on Apple Music

There has been a lot going on in the last 6-months. 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.

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