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bookmark_borderOminousness (with a Happy Ending)

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LYRICS
As the warlords breed
Weapons of mass destruction
The warlords believe
Here upon is the resurrection
Then the warlords breathe
A breath of foul distinction
As they rile in the bile
Of denial
Drown in the flood
Of the spilt blood
Gnarl and bite
Taking sight
Blind to the kind
Grind, spit and spew
They do
Their toll in human soul
The sole consuming sole
Flashes of light
Off in the night

To guard the gates of eternity
From their mortality
To guard morality
From hypocrisy
Bring the soul out of the shadow
Through any age onto the stage
Life is but a show
Ominous us
Omnipresence
Stardust
Omnipresent present

Ominousness.mp3

Ominousness Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: C CM C7
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Drums

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderPick-me-up

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Pick-me-up (Music Video).mp4

Pick-me-up.mp3

LYRICS
Would you like a little pick-me-up
Some news to cure the blues
Then, this one… this one’s for you
May the music melt your troubles away
Carry you to dreams of today

Celebrate! Lift your cup
Good news to cure the blues
Then, this one… yeah, here is to you

Dancing
Keep on dancing
The icing
On life’s cake
Dancing
Keep on dancing
The living’s
What we make

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: D C / G C D / A G# G F# Em / G Em
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMusic Magic

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LYRICS
Do you believe in magic?
Are you a fairy princess?
Then, this “this”
Is our bliss

Do you believe in music?
That it can cure the sick?
Then, this “this”
Is our bliss

Are you our knight in shining armor
Then, this is our bliss
Thus, this bliss is for us
This bliss
Music can cure the sick
This bliss

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Bb G Gm / Bb C
Recording: original takes / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Adhoc
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderYou Are My Hero

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LYRICS
Does the gravity of longevity
Bring the brevity of identity
Into question?
The suggestion of mortality
The reality
When times are ominous
Please remember in all of us
Lives a hero with heartache
Longing for the great escape
In the time that “I am”, I’m
Going to set that hero free
In the time that “I am”, I’m
Bringing out that hero in me
In the time that “I am”, I’m
Creating destiny
You just might find
You can save mankind
Hold the thought in your mind
“Never too late to be kind”

You Are My Hero (Music Video).mp4

You Are My Hero.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 C Dm G / C-c C Em / E C
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderPleased To Meet You

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Pleased To Meet You Instrumental.mp3

Pleased To Meet You.mp3

LYRICS
Hello! How do you do?
You say, “Beautiful day.”
Sky a lovely blue hue
I say, “Pleased to meet you.”

Have a minute to spare?
Sure love if you would share
You say, “Least I can do.”
I say, “Pleased to meet you.”

Before you’re on your way
I would just like to say
“I’m glad to have met you.”
You reply, “So am I”

Yes, pleased to meet you, too

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A C A C F D / G D
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMaria

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LYRICS
Lookin’ for Maria
Need a panacea
I’m too frail
She’ll fix my ail
She’ll set me free
From what’s troublin’ me
Maria, Maria ideal idea

Searchin’ for Maria
Need an idea
Someone kind
To ease my mind
The best at putting it to rest
Maria, Maria ideal idea

Depend on Maria
Made in America
Full of heart
She does her part
Departs a piece of inner peace
Maria, Maria ideal idea

Maria (The Single).mp3

Maria.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
While I was sitting on the courthouse wall at Market and High Streets in West Chester, a lady paused while passing by. I had seen her walk by on many occasions over the years, but this day she asked a favor. “Yesterday, I saw you writing. Can you write a song for me? My name is Maria.”

Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C Am / E Am / C F Am / Am C Em Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Man

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LYRICS
Watching civilization turn to was
The Man want to live free
Without the right of responsibility
Not own-up to his society
Waiting for all to fall… inevitably
The Man rides off into battle
Leaving a bride in need of a rattle
It’s hard to ride high in the saddle
Knowing no one ever wins at war
For sure… no more… no never ever more
When The Man returns from battle
There are no tales to tattle
Now his time stops his clocks
Shoes and socks horizontal in a box

The Man.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Am C E / C E C G
Recording: digital stereo / Recorded live at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA.

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDays

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LYRICS
Lord, they say my days are numbered
Though I love each and every as my own
I must admit some are more preferred
From my heart and to the bone:
Thank you for spending a beautiful day
Wouldn’t rather have spent it any other way

On the days I have to walk this Earth
Try to carry my soul from my day of birth
Doing my best to the day I rest
For the day sacrificed to the quest:
Thank you for spending it this way
Wouldn’t rather have spent it any other day

Yes, thank you for this beautiful day
Sure glad you didn’t save it for a rainy day
Really, thank you! Wouldn’t want it any other way
So, I pray, and I pray:
Thank you for spending a beautiful day
Wouldn’t rather have spent it any other way

Days.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C Am / F G Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderAlleluia

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LYRICS
There’s turkey in the dining room
There’s presents under the tree
The 3rd day you’ll rise from the tomb
In a resurrection analogy
(resurrection can you see?)
And before too long you’ll remember this song
Alleluia… all… ahhhhh

It’s turnkey… pick your door
Transcending about to begin
Beyond the door… way more (weigh less)
Pass through the door… way more (or heartless?)
And you can’t go wrong singing this song
Alleluia… all… ahhhhh

If there’s a monkey on your back
You’re dancing with Mr. Jones
There’s a source for what you lack
Not involving groans and moans
Helping it a long by remembering this song
Alleluia… all… ahhhhh
Amen

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: C F Am F Am G Am F C Em Am C F Am G7 C
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

bookmark_borderSir Prize

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Sir Prize.mp3

LYRICS
Surprise gave rise
To the unexpected
Surprise gave rise
To myths erected
Learned my lesson well
You never can tell
Straight up to heaven
Or right out of hell

Surprise gave rise
To startled
Surprise gave rise
To heart-held
If you don’t choose
More likely to lose
Gateway to heaven
Of hangman’s noose

Surprise gave rise
To appreciated
Surprise gave rise
To alleviated
Come to realize
Our life’s prize
A birth on Earth
Is given heaven

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E Em7 / D A E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

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

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderPicture This

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LYRICS
Spend your life hanging on a wall
Wondering if anyone is looking at all
Canvasing the canvas with finesse
A pallet of colors for a dress
Picture this
A perfect world… nothing amiss
Picture this
Spotlight above gives a light kiss

Do you know Rembrandt or Picasso
Have you had a brush with fame
The unique aura that you throw
No two quite the same
[chorus]

Forever in a static state
Never to escape your landscape
All you life you wait and wait
To be auctioned at estate
[chorus]

Picture This.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
While waiting in a waiting room, I saw a picture hanging around. She reminded me of a metaphor about wanting to be famous.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Am Asus4 / C Em Am / Em Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe World In Flux

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LYRICS
In case you are mixed up
The world is a flux
It keeps on changing
If times are the same
Why the different name
All the rearranging

Et tu, Brutus?
In the back of all of us
Shaking my head in disgust
… kicking up dust

What will it take
Not to make the same mistake
Is flux a fake
An in the grass snake?

Wading in the sands of time
Will I find…
I’m sinking quick (sand quicksand quick sand)
Can anytime be mine
Will I find
I’m a fleeting man, and….

The World In Flux.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Heraclitus (535 – 475 BC)
Heraclitus was famous for his insistence on ever-present change as being the fundamental essence of the universe, as stated in the famous saying, “No man ever steps in the same river twice”

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Asus A7 / G7 A7
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSlows

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Slows.mp3

LYRICS
Chinese water torture
Drip, drip, drip
Wait for the future
Tick, tick, tick
You know how it goes
Waiting as time slows

Patients’ patience endure
How much more
Wait for the future
Tick, tock, tick
You know how it goes
Waiting as time slows

No debate… running late
Flip-flop, flip-flop
Slowing time’s rate
Tick-tock, tick-tock
You know how it goes
Waiting as time slows

Hurry up and wait
Stop, stop, stop, stop
The moments hesitate
Tick-tock, tick-tock
You know how it goes
Waiting as time slows

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E / C A E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWe Can Do This!

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We Can Do This! .mp3

LYRICS
Afraid if you do
Afraid if you don’t
Afraid made it so you won’t
At the very least, you don’t
I see in your eyes
You’re paralyzed
“Maybe it’s just as well”
’cause what if you fell?
After all, if you fall
Well… get back up and keep your eye on the ball
Just get backup after all
I can’t do this
I can’t do that
No! “Can’t” is not where it’s at
I see in your eyes
You’re paralyzed
Believe me I can tell
It’s not just as well
We’ve entered the age
Of must muster the courage

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G A E / E G E / E A B7 E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWhat’s Missing

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LYRICS
How do you know what you’re missing
If you don’t know what you’re missing?
Are you running a race
To try n’ grab some space?
Does elude elude you, too?
Too proud under your cloud
To realize sunshine is fine
Can’t hear the music, if you’re being too loud

Don’t know the formula for formula
Lack knowledge to know what ya know
On the subject of freedom…
Is he dumb?
Baby, maybe
I’m sayin’ “I ain’t foolin'”
He need’s schoolin’
I don’t know where to begin

Elusive
Elude is soooo elusive
… let me see
This elusive eludes me
Does it elude you, too?

If you don’t know what you’re missing
How do you know what you’re missing
Yes know?
Yes, no?

What’s Missing?   .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E A B7/B
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

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

From the album Gay Church