Category: lyrics

bookmark_borderMajor Ordeal

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LYRICS
You’ve made yourself a major ordeal
For real

The sergeants and lieutenants promoted each other
Into the fraternal order of the brother
Now they’re all a major ordeal
With far less public appeal

You’ve made yourself a major ordeal
For real

The Mayor behind closed doors makin’ a secret deal
With a nod and a wink the deal she’ll seal
Throwing her weight… she couldn’t wait to create a real ordeal

You’ve made yourself a major ordeal
For real

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E G#mM7 / A7 E7
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Bill Kucera – Lead Guitar on the Instrumental

A song about police corruption in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_border‘lil Thing

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LYRICS
Wondering how such a little thing
Can bring
So much joy

Blundering… yes, such a little thing
I’m mumbling
Spoiled my coy

Singing how such a little thing
Can bring
Enjoy!

Lil Thing.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E7 E A7
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Guitar
From the album You Are On
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderQuite Wrong

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LYRICS
If they say you’ve got to grin and bare it
Are they aware you don’t want to hear it
Raise your voice by choice and dare to share it

[verses whispered]
Something’s quite wrong
Corruption’s going on
For way too long
Policeman as the con

Something’s quite wrong
Corruption’s going on
The Mayor’s a player
Justice delayer

Something’s quite wrong
Corruption’s going on
Shocking disbelief
In the police chief

Quite Wrong.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: A E D A / C E
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

A song about police corruption in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Air We Share

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LYRICS
Your mark
Get set
Go!
Getting
In the
Know

Upon review, yes, I do really miss you
Won’t compare less you’re there to share the air

Your mark
Get set
Go!
Let the
Feelings
Flow

Upon reveal can’t conceal how I really feel
Now through the air that we share… I dream you’re there

Your mark
Get set
Go!
Watching
The love
Grow

From here to there… it’s everywhere making absence rare
It fills the space between the place as though we are face-to-face

The Air We Share.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: A G E / D Dsus2 E E7
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Guitar

From the album You Are On
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHeart Over The Moon

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LYRICS
My heart is over the moon
For the swan I swoon
Coming on none to soon
Feeling the full moon loon
Crazy in love
Hazy because
Crazy in love
Symbolic dove
With olive branch
Giving peace a chance
In nature’s church
Cupid’s arrows lance

Heart Over The Moon.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C G / D G / A C
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Guitar

From the album You Are On
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Pig Slop Stomp

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LYRICS
The pig is at the trough
Doing what he does best
When it comes to slop… never gets enough

If you think you’re winning the battle
You’re really losing the war
Even though the saber you rattle
You’re really losing the war, for sure

The pig is in the mud
Just like all the rest
Living in the rough… pulling his pud

Chorus

The pig is ready for slaughter
Put to sleep with the captain’s daughter
Outta the pan… into the fire… getting hotter

Chorus

Pig Slop Stomp.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: D A E / A E / A G A C A
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderEverything Is Free In America

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LYRICS
Everything is free in America
Except for the price of freedom
Freedom lost of freedom won

Militant public servant
Freedom in America? Ha, ha, ha! Na, na, na
Freedom in America led (bred) by the dumb, dumb, dumb

Everything is free in America
Except for the price of freedom
Constitution come undone
Then you’ve the nerve to say “U.S.A.”?

Everything is free in America
Except for the price of freedom
What is the cost of freedom?

[Marty says no more party]

Everything Is Free In America.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: A Em / D G
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Marshall Square Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderAmerican Woman

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Coversong originally made famous by The Guess Who and Lenny Kravitz
Written by Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Jim Kale, Randy Bachman

American Woman Inauguration Version.mp4

American Woman Inauguration Version.mp3

American Woman.mp3

American Woman on the 4th of July.mp3

E                     A7
American woman, gonna mess your mind.
(Ad-lib spelling)

  G  A   E           G    A    E   
American woman, stay away from me.  
American woman, momma let me be. 
Don't come a hangin' around my door, 
I don't wanna see your face no more.
I got more important things to do, 
than spend my time growin' old with you.
Now woman, I said stay away.  
American woman, listen what I  sa-----y.

Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, get away
American woman, listen what I say
Chorus
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your ghetto scenes
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
I gotta go
I gotta getta away
Think I gotta go
I want to fly away
I'm gonna leave you woman
Bye bye, bye bye
And I'm no good for you
(American woman) I'm looking at you right in the eye
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do
(American woman) I'm gonna leave you woman

American Woman (with Bill Kucera).mp3

American Woman.mp3

America
America

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Classic Rock
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live
Inauguration version: digital 16-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar
Inauguration version: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album You Are On

bookmark_borderWhen Souls Meet

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LYRICS
In a package wrapped so neat
Luscious curves yet so petite
Who thought the story would ever be told
Where we walk together growing old

The shine of your smile
Travels over a mile
Laughter that rings
The joy it brings
Walking hand-in-hand in a virtual land
Coming to understand a woman and a man

The day and age when our souls meet
Together as one now we’re complete
Who thought the ending would be so bold
To be so lucky as growing old

When Souls Meet.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: D F G / D G
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Guitar

From the album You Are On
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBeat The Heat

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LYRICS
Thank Heaven the heat does fade
When I move into the shade
To beat the heat

What do you think about a cold drink
Or the tease of a cool breeze
To beat the heat

Under the shade of threes like these
Fresh oxygen is sure to please
We’ll beat the heat

If only the beach were within reach
Or float down stream… do ya know what I mean
To beat the heat

Beat The Heat.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E C G E / D A C G E
Recording: digital 1-track stereo / recorded live

Vocals, Guitar

From the album You Are On
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSympathy Through Telepathy

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LYRICS
Telepathic energy
Telepathic synergy
Telepathic connectivity

We’ve got a thing through space
Your scent and taste leave a trace

Imprint memory
Lips, tongue and mammary

Sympathy through telepathy

Partially particle
Yet, we’ll behave like a wave
Participating particle
Goes riding on a wave

Sympathy through telepathy

Sympathy Through Telepathy.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: A7 Em C A7 / E G A / A7 G6(9)
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Market and High Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderA Fancy To Nancy

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LYRICS
I took a fancy to Nancy
Wrapped in a Dan-ce of romance
Ten years of famine
Turn into feast
Into the most from the least
All my life where’ve ya been
More than coincidence
More than chance
Here comes that loving feeling, again

Become aware when love is in the air
Once I begin to take it in
Sorry if I stare whenever you are there
It’s just now in miracles I’m believin’

I took a fancy to Nancy
Wrapped in a Dan-ce of romance
Footloose and fancy free
Is she really dancing with me
Coming back from out of the black
Into the blue with you
Through the last chapter… happily, ever after

A Fancy To Nancy.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C G D / D G / F G D / F G D G
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Swing Of Things

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LYRICS
See if we’re able
We’re certainly capable
Of getting ourselves in the swing of things
… into the swing of things

See if it’s actual
That it’s factual
To get natural
Getting in the swing of things
… into the swing of things

You go to and fro
Before ya know
You’re part of the show
Feel free to join in and sing
Before ya know…
You’ll start to swing
… into the swing of things

The Swing Of Things.mp3

The Swing Of Things Guitar Instrumental.mp4

The Swing Of Things Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: A A7 G7 / A Ab A slide up an octave
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Marshall Square Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderTry the Vibration on High

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Try the Vibration on High.mp3

LYRICS
Come on everybody give it one more try
One more try and you’ll know why
Come on everybody we can all get by
One more try — turn the vibration high

You’ll know why
You’ll know why
It matters to try
When we try
Try, try, try
Vibration’s high

If everyone everywhere becomes aware
I’m tellin’ ya folks we’ll be almost there
IF everyone everywhere will start to care
Then my friend, we’ll be already there

Chorus

Try Guitar Instrumental.mp3

Try the Vibration on High Guitar Instrumental.mp4

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E G A E / E C D E
Recording: live

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

The intersection of Church and Gay Streets is my favorite place to write songs. Not only is it inspirational for lyrics, but the groove of the music can also be tested. Within minutes of starting this song, children of all ages began dancing… a 4-year-old boy started gyrating, a 5-year-old girl twisted and shook, a 1-year-old girl did the up n’ down dance and several adults couldn’t help themselves.

The lyrics were inspired by the public hearing about writing music at Gay Church.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderFree Lunch at Gay Church

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LYRICS
I went to my usual spot
Where I sit just ’bout every day
I thought things were going in the usual way
But, there in my seat
Were sandwiches… cheese and meat

A free lunch on its way
A free lunch here today
A free lunch…
A free lunch… what can I say?

I’ve always had a hunch
There’s such thing as “a free lunch”

Did Friedman feed men?
Was Milton smitten?
’cause I find it fittin’
I’ve a bunch of free lunch

Free Lunch.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E variations / E A / B7 A E
Recording: live

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
Bill Kucera — Guitar

A song about finding sandwiches on the bench at Gay and Church Streets in West Chester and how it applies to Milton Friedman’s economic theory “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch”.

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets. Recorded at Everhart Park in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church