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D O U G     R O G E R S

Doug Rogers spent fifteen years in New York City, acting, writing, directing and especially writing songs for the downtown theatre scene. This with the troupe “Les Trois Guitar” and in the band “The Gurners” as well as in his own shows Felons in Heaven and The Sea Devil.

Since then he has spent ten years in the wilderness, no longer acting or playwriting but still writing songs. A different kind of song. One that reverberates off the hills of the western Catskills.

He now lives in Buffalo, New York.

photo by Karl Bode

 

 
from  H i G H   W A T E R M A R K   S A L O [O] N  volume 2 number 1

 

You Pull Me Up

I cry cause I wanna cry
and I fall down cause it ain’t easy
and I try cause I have to try
But I don’t know why
Don’t know the reason
You pull me up

         You pull me up
         You pull me up where I wanna be
         You pull me up
         Goddamn how you pull me up
         and I love you for you hands
         I love your hands
        
I lie where I find to lie
and I move on when it’s the season
and I’m gonna die when it’s my time to die
But I don’t know why
Don’t know the reason

         You pull me up
         You pull me up
         You pull me up where I wanna be
         You pull me up
         Goddamn how you pull me up
         and I love you for your hands
         You pull me up
         You pull me up
         You pull me up where I wanna be
         You pull me up
         God how you pull me up
         and I love you for you hands
         I love your hands