[MUSIC PLAYING]

We walk the city streets in shadows. I bags disguises from far.

We hunt the houses of our fathers. To us, it doesn't feel bizarre.

We don’t even care anymore.

We come marching, knocking on their doors. We don’t have to ask them what it’s for. Shadows of the

lives that lay before.

Got to quench this fire that lay within my soul.

They’re just some things I need to know.

This is why they die. All the tears that you cry. The shadows find a place with me inside.

I’d forsook this world to seek Valhalla.

We live in memories. Walk their halls

with the houses. Of our fathers.

But in the end they left it all and we don't even care anymore.

We come marching knocking on their door.

We don’t have to ask them what it’s for.

Shadows of the the lives they lay before.

Got it quenches fire in my soul.

There are just some things I need to know.

This is why they die; all the tears they cried.

Shadows find a place for me inside.

You lost a ship upon the high sea.

He lost his life to mutiny.

And this is what would I become the son of God.

Is when it came, it all began. A car

We don’t even care any more.

We come marching. Knocking on their door.

We don’t have to ask them what it’s for.

Shadows of the lives they lived before.

Got to quench is fire in my soul.

There are just some things I need to know.

This is why they died.

All the tears they cried.

The shadows find a place for me inside.

Shadows find a place with me inside.

Shadows find a place with me inside.

Shadows find a place with me inside.

Shadows find a place with me inside.

Merry Christmas and welcome to Mormon Channel Studio.

That was Shadows by Doug Bush, and I'm your host, Paul Becerra.

So, Doug, hey. How are you doing? Paul. Amazing song. Thanks. Sounds awesome. Why don't you tell me a little bit about that song? Yeah, absolutely. So that's the first track on my second album.

It's called shadows. And that song, out of all my songs, probably on the album,

it's probably going to be the most timeless for me,

because a lot of my tracks are about things I've gone through, but that one's actually about a family vacation. I went on no, and it's special to me.

Sounds kind of weird because it was a family history vacation.

Oh no way. Yeah. So where the shadows come into this? So shadows is kind of like my ancestors, you know, shadows of the past, that kind of thing. In fact, the bridge is about one of my ancestors, so I have a connection with, you know, Hawaii, I went to school, BYU, Hawaii, and one of my ancestors, George Buchanan, actually translated the Book of Mormon into Hawaiian. Oh, no way.

Which is really cool. So the bridge is about his great grandpa,

who actually lost his life at sea through a mutiny, which is crazy. Oh, wow. Yeah, learn that on my trip. So I wrote about it. Yeah, that's been a cool trip. It was an awesome trip. Why don't you explain that? That one lyric a little bit more shadows inside? Yeah.

Shadows. Find a place with me inside. So the verses are about how we're going around. And at first we were we were kind of hunting down these, these different, like tombstones and graveyards to find, you know, our ancestors were buried where they were christened, where they got baptized in the church. It was really cool. And we found a lot of these sites, and I just felt a really deep connection to my ancestors. And it was really cool to be in that trip and just to feel everything and all the sacrifices that they made and how it kind of led to right now and where I am today.

That's awesome. It sounds like an amazing experience. Yeah. So I don't know if you remember, but you and I, we actually went to BYU Hawaii together. I do remember I definitely remember you Paul.

So so I see for your next song you brought a ukulele? I did. Did your time in Hawaii inspire you to to learn the ukulele?

Absolutely. Yeah, I did my first semester out in Hawaii, and then that summer I went home and I got my first ukulele, and I gotta learn this.

Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. So that's definitely where the influence comes from. Oh, okay. I did the same thing. You know, I don't I don't think you're allowed to live in Hawaii without learning how to play ukulele. I think that’s a rule. - I think it’s a law. Actually, it is a law.

So

I'm sure you've spent at least one Christmas in Hawaii.

I spent many Christmas seasons in Hawaii.

During my time there, I didn't actually spend Christmas itself,

but it was awesome having, you know, the lights, Christmas lights on the palm trees, you know, and and everything like that.

But I, I love Christmas in Hawaii, you know, “Mele Kalikimaka” everything like that. So my favorite part no snow in Hawaii. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. The weather is great. Yeah. All year round. Yeah, All year round. So why don’t you tell me about the next song that you’re going to play for us? Yeah, the next song is Come All Ye Faithful, and I'm going to be doing my own arrangement of it on the ukulele. Okay. Awesome. Let's hear it. Yeah.

So this is O Come All Ye Faithful by Doug Bush, which he's going to be playing on the ukulele.

Oh come all ye faithful

Joyful and triumphant. Oh come ye, oh, come ye to Bethlehem.

Come and behold him. Born the king of angels.

O come, let us adore Him.

O come, let us adore Him. O come, let us adore Him. Christ the Lord.

Sing choirs of angels. Sing in exaltation. Sing, all ye citizens of heaven abroad.

Glory to God. Glory in the highest. Oh, come, let us adore Him. Oh, come. Let us adore Him. Oh, come, let us adore Him. Christ the Lord.

Yea, Lord we greet thee. Born this happy morning, Jesus.

To thee be all glory givn’

Son of the Father, now in flesh appearing. Oh, come, let us adore Him. Oh, come, let us adore Him.

Oh, come, let us adore Him. Christ the Lord.

O come, let us adore Him, Christ, The Lord.