bookmark_borderHoundDog Blues

LYRICS
Dog gone it. Dag nab it.
Confounded stranger can’t read “DANGER!”
“BEWARE OF DOG” less you meet your God
Beware of God less you’re dog meat
He’s a big dog… you’re more the size of a dog treat
If you come knockin’ better be answerin’ to “Who is it?”

Hark,
That dog’s bit is worse than his bark
And, that dog’s bark is fierce
Listen as the shock of sound waves pierce

HoundDog Blues.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords G / A
Bm7 / G / A / E

Written and recorded on November 12 and 13, 2012 in West Chester, PA.

Toucan — Dog
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Songs To Make Babies March
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderChasing Rays

Chasing Rays.mp3 (Free MP3 Download or Streaming Audio)

LYRICS
In these days, we’re all chasing rays (we’re all chasing rays)
In the fray of the day, we’re chasing rays

Searching high and low
Where did the day light go

There should have daylight savings
But, we kept shaving and shaving and shaving
Until there was barely splintered sunlight left

It’s not alright when there’s nothing left

It there’s a shadow in the way
There’s a way to flesh out a ray
What do you say
Let’s step out into the light
Alight? Alright!

In these days, we’re all chasing rays (we’re all chasing rays)
In the fray of the day, we’re chasing rays

ABOUT THE SONG
A / D / A
Bm7 / G / E

Written and recorded on November 9, 2012 in Chester County, PA. It was the first sunny day and warm enough to play guitar outside in a long time. It was also the first nice day since the start of daylight savings. So… I wanted to catch the last rays as the sun started to set. Lack of sunlight tends do cause depression; therefore, I suggest you try catching rays.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderStart Of Times

LYRICS
You better run n’ get your daughter
You better run n’ get your son
You better run n’ get your mother
Before darkness follows the setting sun

’cause the End Of Times is looming near
The wretched are dooming in fear

You better run n’ get your daughter
You better run n’ get your son
You better run n’ get your mother
Before darkness follows the setting sun

There’s a bend in time we’re zooming clear
The righteous are bounding. How queer?

You better run n’ get your daughter
You better run n’ get your son
You better run n’ get your mother
Before darkness follows the setting sun

The Start Of Times is looming near
Leaving hate far behind… in the rear

Start Of Times.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 2
C / Am
C / G / Am
Am variations

Written and recorded on November 9, 2012 in Chester County, PA. Since Hurricane Sandy, it was the first sunny day that it was warm enough to play guitar outside. So, I wanted every one to come enjoy the day light.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderA Better Place

LYRICS
You can stand here hoping the world will pass you by
Or, you can choose a better place to move the human race

CHORUS
If you want to get from here
You want to get to there
You have change direction somehow

You can follow the herd trying to stray under every black cloud in the sky
Or, you can choose a better place to move the human race

Chorus

You can sit in your rocker hoping the world will pass you by
Or, can lead the human race to move to a better place

Chorus
You can believe all you’ve heard from the herd… never asking why
Or, can lead the human race to move to a better place

Chorus
Favor the path that is clear
Listen to your instincts. Be aware!
There’s no better time nor place. Here! Now!

A Better Place.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
E / G add A#
G / D / A / E

Written and recorded on November 3 and 8, 2012 in West Chester and Exton, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderA Page In The Book

LYRICS
Taking a second look
I should have known you were a crook
Looks like now you’ll be a page in The Book

When you try to runaway, lie and hide
From your responsibilities
You invoke your own reciprocity
Causing grave disabilities
A mark on your history

Once upon a time,
Your story invaded mine
And, it looks like you’re a page in The Book

It may not be too late to change your fate
Seek forgiveness for your sin and be born again
Then, this scary tail may have a happy ending

Raise the vibe while you’re alive!
Be the climax to the story
With your new found glory
Forevermore our story
In The Book

 

A Page in The Book: Information, Free MP3, Streaming Audio, Chords and Liner Notes

From the Christmas Treasures album Last Christmas by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFaith In Hope

LYRICS
Faith in hope
Hope in faith
I have hope in hope
Faith that hope holds true

Within you skin’s underneath
Bare the soul that’s within you
Release the love from within the bloke
Faith that life’s not a joke
Hope that mankind learns to cope

Hoping Faithfully

Shy of pride
Fashion of compassion
String as an oak
Weaving threads into rope
Bringing peace to Earth
Faith in hope
Hope in faith

Spreading smiles and mirth
Hoping to spread the faith

Hoping Faithfully

Hoping Faithfully.mp3

Hoping Faithfully information, chords, free MP3 download or streaming audio.

From the Christmas Treasures album Last Christmas by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderA Chaos Theory Theme Song

Winkie the Crossbones
D A N G E R

LYRICS
Water dripping from a faucet
Try to dodge the raindrops without getting wet
Unordered as the system may appear to be
It’s only because you’re too close to see clearly

Um, though it might appear random
To call it such would dumb
It’s much more complicated than that

Better put on my thinking hat

A butterfly flaps it wings
Causing devastating things
Showing up as tornadoes in Kansas
Your smallest intention effects all of us

Smoke rising up into the air
A most fascinating thing as a smoke-ring
Crystals forming where it was bare
Call it a gem. Call it rare

A Chaos Theory Theme Song.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Bb / Bb with natural / B with C / A
Am

Written and recorded using an extemporaneous fashion in West Chester and King Of Prussia, PA on November 4 and 5, 2012. It is about Chaotic Systems Experimentation In Acoustic, Business, Vortex and Social Environments and featured as a chaos theory theme song.

Daniel — Piano, Vocals

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderYet Another Christmas Song (Part 2)

LYRICS
Every once-in-a-while notice God is living on Earth
To all creation She gave birth
Now, She’s part of everything you do
Now, She’s everywhere… inside and out of you

An omnipresent presence for your Christmas present
An omniscient pleasure. In your image!
Represent

Every once in a while consider your worth
A 3D model… in depth, height and girth
Representing Her in all you do
Bring the goodness from the inside out of you

Bringing life, comfort and joy for now and evermore
Forever getting better… faith, hope and more
May Her peace forever endure

Yet Another Christmas Song Part 2.mp3

About the Song, Chords and More Christmas Music

From the Christmas Treasures album Last Christmas by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWhen All Else Fails

LYRICS
The key is under lock and key
All modes of communication fail
Like a jaguar chasing a monkey
We’re taking on water… better bail!

The key still under lock and key
All routs of transportation fail
Like a jaguar chasing a monkey
Start walking on water… we need the Holy Grail

The key is locked on the inside
Drowning… respiration will fail
Like a poacher shoots the jaguar for a hide
Start treading treading water… it’s your tail

Like the monkey chases the weasel
Like the jaguar chases the monkey
Like the poacher chases the jaguar

All around the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel;
The monkey thought ’twas all in fun,
Pop! goes the weasel.

When All Else Fails.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
C
C / F / G
G / C

Written and recorded on October 1, 2012 in Ambler, Spring House and West Chester, PA. Right in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I locked my keys and phone inside the car.

Daniel — Keyboards, Vocals, Producer

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWood Of

Tree Fell on Electric Lines in Montgomery County, PA
Hurricane Sandy — Tree Fell on Electric Lines in Montgomery County, PA

LYRICS
Did that tree just try to kill me?

Many dead… mostly from trees.

Geeze.. giving them diseasecreatin a deadly breeze.

Using limb to clobber him from limb to limb
Crushing homes and transportation
Because of our past deviation violation

The fall of the trees
Due to the human disease
The revenge of the woods
Due to too many would-of’s, could-of’s and shoulds
Due to too many wood-of shoulds

Wood-of.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
D / E / C / D
D / E / F / G

Written and recorded on October 31, 2012 in West Chester, PA during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Many scientists believe humans have caused severe volatility to the weather systems. Quite a few scientist also believe humans are causing deforestation. Now, are we getting what we deserve?

Daniel — Keyboards, Vocals, Producer

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOver And Over

You know it must be going over and over in her head

If she ever comes to realize… what she did
Then, you know it’s gotta be going over and over and over
In her head

Must be hard to live with yourself
Over and over in head… over and over and over again
As long as you’re living a life of sin

Over and over again
When you’re livin’ a life of sin… livin’ a life of sin… livin’ a life of sin

It was so out-of-this-world
That it couldn’t have bee real
I mean… what’s your deal

Over and over and over and over again
Gotta re-live that sin
Until you was it clean
Until you’re void of mean

Over and over and over and over and over and over again
Over and over in your head
For all eternity… long after you’re dead
Do you at least regret what you said?

Until you do you do
Likely, be living it over and over and over again
Gotta rid that sin

Must be hard to live with yourself
Over and over in head… over and over and over again
As long as you’re living a life of sin

ABOUT THE SONG
Em / G / Am

Written and recorded Halloween, October 31, 2012. Halloween is suppose to be a day in which the spirit world and the human world co-mingle. What if your evil spirit was in your head every day? You have got to get rid of it… do you know the way? Then, you’ll be living in blessed bliss.

Daniel — Keyboards, Vocals, Producer

The song was written and recorded on-the-fly in an impromptu, extemporaneous style.

Over and Over (in Her Head).mp3

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderKind Kind

LYRICS
Do you/I find me/you unusual?
Quite different from then them all?
Do you find me one-of-a….
One-of-a-kind

Hope you/I find me/you the kind kind
Not interested in the thrill of the kill
Hope I/you remind you/me of the kind kind
Don’t wanna stick anybody with the bill

Do you/I find me/you unusual?
Quite different from then them all?
Do you find me one-of-a….
One-of-a-kind

The Kind Kind.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Eb
Eb sus 4
Db

Written and recorded on October 29 and 30, 2012 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Engineering

From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFull Moon. High Tide.

Shark Swimming in the Streets of Margate, NJ
Shark Swimming in the Streets of Margate, NJ During Hurricane Sandy

LYRICS
The wind does howl
To the pour of rain’s growl
Poor, poor, poor visibility (Can’t you see, you can’t see?)
Ohhhh… I thought the day I’d never see
Full moon. High tide.
You’ve got no place left to hide
“Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good”
You should’ve run, should’ve run just as fast as you could

Full moon. High tide.
Worst time to make landfall
Full moon. High tide.
It’s a wonder if there’s anything left at all

ABOUT THE SONG
Music by Eric, Carpenter John and Daniel; written and recorded as an impromptu blues jam as we waited for the Hurricane to arrive; Norristown, PA on October 28, 2012.
Lyrics by Daniel; written and recorded inside the truck as Hurricane Sandy was making landfall; West Chester, PA on October 29, 2012.

Full Moon High Tide.mp3

Inspired by:

“Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good”

the author of “When The Levee Breaks”, Kansas Joe (as made famous by Led Zeppelin)

Pictures I saw going by on the Internet:

The science of a high tide, full moon and landfall of a hurricane —

Higher-than-normal tides — tied to a full moon — have added to Hurricane Sandy’s coastal flooding threat.

As you might expect the explanation is a matter of simple astronomy, not any kind of lunacy associated in folklore with a full moon.

“It’s not the moon’s phase that matters, but the position,” says astronomer Phil Plait on his Bad Astronomy website.

During a full moon, the moon is essentially lined up on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun (this is what allows the near surface of the moon to be illuminated in its full splendor) and the gravitational tug of war between those two intensifies at this time, resulting in higher tides.

This kind of alignment of astronomical objects is called a syzygy (SIH-zhih-jhee) and sailors have understood the effect for centuries. So, for Hurricane Sandy, the higher-than-normal tides that threaten to add to an 11-foot storm surge feared for lower Manhattan are simply a matter of bad timing. — USA Today

Songs I’ve been writing — Eternal Spirit, Frankenstorm and Sandy.

Articles I’ve been writing — When Storms Collide, Philadelphia Closed and Under (Low) Pressure.

CHORDS
E
E / A / E
Bm7 / G / A / E

Eric Loos – Electric Guitar
John Cressman — Drums
Daniel — Rhythm Guitar, Vocals

bookmark_borderSandy

LYRICS
Raise your stein to Frankenstorm
The lessons that we all can learn
Drink. Drink. Drink! A toast to Sandy
Civilization on the verge of insanity

Call in the cows from the farm
Less they be Wizard-of-Oz airborne
Drink. Drink. Drink! A toast to Sandy
Civilization on the verge of insanity

Life threatening. Light Thundering.
Strife rendering. Right bewildering.

Sandy.mp3

Hurricane Sandy October 28, 2012
Hurricane Sandy October 28, 2012

ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 1
Am / Dm
Am / Em
Am / G

Written and recorded on October 27 and 28, 2012.
The idea — Ambler, PA
Words and music — Conshohocken
Music and guitar recording — Eris Temple Arts, West Philly
Vocal recording and mixing — Exton

Inspired by Frankenstorm and Hurricane Sandy.

Daniel – Vocals, Guitar

From the album The New Old
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFrankenstorm

LYRICS
Perhaps you just awoke in the eye of a Frankenstein storm
Perhaps you did not hear, heed nor take warn
Perhaps you think it’s safe for you to go
Though the vantage is danger, fear NOT clear
But, maybe you think so?

Frankenstorm.mp3 (Free MP3 Download or Streaming Audio)

ABOUT THE SONG

Frankenstorm 2012
Frankenstorm 2012

Capo 2
E / Dm less F# / E A less C# / E
E / G / Dm less F# / E
E / Dm less F# / G / E

Written and recorded on October 26, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania while under the threat of Hurricane Sandy colliding with a winter storm coming from the Midwest. Do you think humans will wake-up in the eye-of-a-storm a realize what human induced climate change is addomg to the chaos of weather systems?

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Have Camera. Will Travel
by Daniel Brouse