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Anthem

January 21, 2017

Last week I finished the great book “Sapiens: A brief history of human kind” by Yuval Noah Harari… It’s a wonderful book that I came away from with a better understanding of our species, where we’ve come from and where we might be headed. I highly recommended checking out the book… Some nights after finishing the book I had dream in which I heard or spoke the words “change the anthem”. When I woke I thought this was a cool idea. Around this time I had a new piece of music on the go… So I combined the dream-phrase, the after thoughts of the book and this piece of music together and a new song started to form…

Here’s a snippet from it. Hope you enjoy.

~ Peter

New song in the works… "Anthem" Rewrite the anthem rip up the contract(s) I feel a golden age coming on rewrite the anthem – rewrite the song when the Kingdom falls and the king don't come When the dam won't hold and the water runs When the veil lifts and the pieces fit We trade our skin for a new skin We trade our skin for a new skin Oh – let's play Oh – let's play on Oh yeah let's play Let's play God #singersongwriter #acousticguitar #bourgeoisguitars #irishmusic #originalmusic #indiemusic

A video posted by @peterdoran on Jan 21, 2017 at 7:51am PST


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Go Slow – Live on the lake

December 14, 2016

It’s less than two weeks to Christmas. I’m sitting in a coffee shop, surrounded by Christmas lights. On the radio – “I don’t like cricket – I love it”. A painted snowman wearing a black top hat stares at me from the window with two uneven black eyes. Today is Wednesday and I’ve made an arrangement with myself to make Wednesday website day. Tell me why is it hard to make arrangements with yourself?

This week I want to share a song that I recorded last month in Switzerland… This song has been in the air for a year or more now and has taken a long time to come together. Some songs are like that… tricksy, crafty things. I can’t say for sure if it’s done yet, or if it’s as good as I think it should be. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell what a song is. But with this one I must be patient. That is the central theme of the song… to be patient with things as they unfold… that every step in becoming is important, that it’s not good to rush things.

Go Slow - Handwritten Lyrics


This was filmed on the lake in Brienz, Switzerland, which is one of my favourite places in the world. Filmed on an iPhone by my friend René, a guitar maker, a Jedi of wood and an altogether wonderful human being. He filmed with the phone in one hand and an oar in the other. You can hear the oar cut the water has we slowly turn around to take in all the mountains behind us. Hope you enjoy the song – if you do, please share on your Facebooks / Twitter / take a screen shot, print it out and put up on your fridge … however you can make the songs travel is good 🙂


Go Slow

“Noise, when the lights go out in your playground mind.
Noise in the dance club that’s your heart sometimes
and there’s noise in your muscles aching to climb
but there’s quiet underneath this that you’re trying to find

Go Slow, Go slow, good change will slowly come
Go slow and know that this is your becoming
Yours alone

Well a man gets lost in the stories that he tells
Be kind with the names that you give to yourself
and I know that you’re running to be more than you are
don’t the stars have their rhythms , it’s the same in your heart

Go Slow, Go slow, good change will slowly come
Go slow and know that this is your becoming

In your rise, in your fall, in your dusk, in your dawn
In your changing mind, in your animal heart
Go Slow…

Go Slow, Go slow, good change is slowly coming
Go slow and know that this is your becoming”

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You want the Moon?

April 24, 2014

“Last Night I was dreaming about you my love, last night I was dreaming of you. In the morning you didn’t materialise, in the morning you didn’t come true” – Peter Doran , “Moon”

Come close, I’ve got a new song for you…

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“What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary. ”
― George Bailey

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