"Working on a song"
(Rob Dokter) (c) Rob Dokter Music, nov.13th, 2011

"We've got politics and people not really caring
'bout the chemtrails in the air
... Just nuking and poluting all of us
all around and everywhere.
When you raise your voice for awakening
very few do seem to care
You just get called a moron or a nuttbar
on every concern you'd share.

Politicians can get away with almost everything they say
like 'unemployed should just starve and die'
They can freely go on hiding what's upon us
it's depopulation people, the 'all-seeing-eye'.
I've had it to up here with this talking and posting
You just find yourself more alone.
It's just another cry from some far off dessert
No battles will be won from just talking from your home.

So many times i've been that very person everywhere i worked
stepping up for everybody's right and wrong
while the grey herd is still working these jobs and places
and i am the one that's long gone.
So, you all just stay behind your screens some more
and watch Idols, the News that's coloured and so on
But don't go banging the doors of the likes of me then, friends
when your balls get cut with the thumb-screws on"

"Working on a song" (Rob Dokter) (c) Rob Dokter Music, nov.13th, 2011

Here i will be sharing with you the latest songs i have written:

Welcome to Homegrown Session Number 3. It's a new song. Wrote the song just before filming it ... so ... i don't even know where it came from...there's not even an official title for it yet. Might call it 'Things just won't settle down' (written by Rob Dokter (c) feb.27th 2011)

I just keep thinking about something my dear friend Panama Red once told me while we were on tour in France.
'It takes a certain kind of loneliness doing what we do, Doc'...'We musicians seem to be going around places and situations where we are likely to be hurt.' Guess you're right, guitar bum. Let's do some pickin' someday soon! The more i seem to be fighting for things to settle down here the more things flow away through my hands ... Let's do Cullman, Alabama together and have some good drinks to your birthday, bubba!

LYRICS to

'DOGS IN THE MOONLIGHT (Things just won't settle down)'

(written by Rob Dokter) all rights reserved (c)

(chords in the song:
first half verse: C C/b Em F Fm C
second half verse: C C/b Em F Fm G )

She called me a farmer
but i never owned no land.
She called me hundreds of dirty names
and to keep home my filthy hands.

Now i'm standin' here thinkin'.
There's so much regrets to last.
Hauntin' me ev'ry step of the way,
when it all should be put to rest.

Now all i see is dogs in the moonlight,
comin' in and out of the woods.
Two dogs that knew me well
back when life was good.

Now i'm standin' here and i'm thinkin'.
There's too much regrets to last.
Hauntin' me ev'ry step of my way
when it should've been in the past.

But i never really left the island
where the sun was beatin' down.
Still workin' my head around it
why things just won't settle down.

Yeah, i never really left the island
where the sun was beatin' down.
Still workin' my head around it
where things should just quietly settle down.

Now all i see is them dogs in the moonlight
comin' in and out of the woods.
Two old dogs that seemed to know me well
back when life was good.
Yeah, two old dogs that seemed to know me well
back when life was good.

The Doc
(febr. 27th, 2011)

Welcome to Homegrown Session number 7. It's a NEW SONG again ...
I guess dreadful weekends bring along dreadful songs...

I had a few verses and chorus ready just before recording it, so the lyrics came together more or less while recording it. I tried to write them down the way i just sung them. People familiar with my CDs know that this type of Raw-Gem-songs is my favourite type of song. I love songs in their first rough shape, without polishing anything.. SO: here is another RAW GEM !

LYRICS to

'LOVE TURNS OUT TO BE SNOW'

(words and music by Rob Dokter)
(c) all rights reserved - RobDokter2011

(instrumental intro)

She said she's going to Spain
leaving me in the lowland rain.
If i could do it all again
Think it would still come out the same

i guess it's just me and you
and the life we're both going through
There's no right or wrong to do
No backtrack to walk onto

There's must be a lighthouse up ahead
when i close my eyes it's clearly in my head
But the sea i'm on is rough and bad
But i'll be loving you without regret

(instrumental)

Feel like i've been trailing behind
for the longest longest longest time
On every misconnection between minds
i turned and i reached out in cryin'

So just tell me where i should go
Now that love seems o'er
I just can't take no more shouts and whoes
I guess for me in the end every love is just snow

But, there's a lighthouse up ahead
When i close my eyes i can clearly see it there
Right now the sea i'm on is rough and bad
But i'll be loving you without regret

So just tell me where i should go
now that love is o'er.
i just can't take no more shouts 'n' whoes
So, i guess for me in the end every love is snow

So just tell me where i should go
now love is o'er.
i just can't take no more of them shouts 'n' whoes
So, i guess for me in the end every love is just snow
And i'll tell you some more
i been down this road in time before.

(instrumental)

But, there's a lighthouse up ahead
When i close my eyes it's shinin' in my head
But the sea i'm on is rough and bad
Oh, but i'll be loving you without regret

So just you tell me where you think i should go
And never bother no mo'
I just take no more of them shouts and whoes
Yeah, in the end every love is just first day's snow.
Yeah, in the end every love is just like the snow.

ENJOY!

Love and peace and hope to all of you.

The Doc
(March 5th, 2011)

Welcome to HomeGrownSession number 9.
Not really finished, but the frame is here.
Needs some more work (in time.. maybe..)

LYRICS:

' SOME REST  (Thy Name be blessed, Lord) '

(words and music by Rob Dokter) (c)

My heart is broken
The pieces remain with you
Now i'll live for my children
and i will somehow fight my life through

Never a dull moment
So many things have gone bad
If i don't wake up tomorrow
There's nothing in it to be sad

My life ain't mine anymore
Have Thine own way, Lord, Thy Name be blessed
Please, guide the ones that need it most
All i want is some rest
If there's nothing for me comin'
You can take me off this board.

ENJOY!

Love and peace and hope to all of you.

The Doc
(April 7th, 2011)

Welcome to Homegrown Session number 11.
Last sundaymorning it struck me that my Grandmother's Apple Tree is really doing great in my backyard.
... The little blessings in life.....
Thank You Lord for these Thy many gifts...
 

'GRANDMA'S APPLE TREE'

(words and music Rob Dokter)
- all rights reserved (c) -

Out in the garden
Grandma's Apple Tree
is doing great

Shows like
Lots o'fruit a-comin'
Can't wait

Little things for comfort
When you're hangin' on by a thread
Lost so many things in life
There's such chaos in my head

Keep an Eye on me, Lord
as i stumble on my way
Thanks for Thy many Gifts
All Your Blessings i'll repay

Yeah, out in the Garden
Grandma's Apple Tree
is doing great

Thanks Lord, for the garden
where Grandma's Apple Tree
is doing great

(The Doc, 17th april, 2011)
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