bookmark_borderWhistling In The Wind (Follow Your Dreams)

LYRICS
Where to begin when you’re whistling in the wind
You’ll find there’s no bind
When no one comes to mind

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is near to hear
If no one is around… did it really make a sound?

Can’t see the trees through the forest?
Then, perhaps it’s best
To find your kind mind
And, disregard the rest

Whistling In The Wind.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG

If you describe someone as whistling in the wind, you mean that they are trying unsuccessfully to change something which cannot be changed.

A song about following your dreams. If you dream of making music, let it be heard. If no one hears it, is it really music? Don’t worry what other people might think or say. “Do or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A C / C Bb B A / G F# F A / C A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Whistling

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe People

LYRICS
The people’s steeple
Is one under the sun
All inclusive
Belong to the club if you live
All the jive about being alive
Can all come true for you

The people’s steeple
None to soon will commune
Non-exclusive
Belong to the club if you live

The people’s steeple
Come on in to begin
Still elusive?
Not too late… start to live

The people’s steeple
Plenty of room to resume
Goin’ festive
Celebrate the fate “to live”

The People.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLeavin’ Grievin’ Starvin’

LYRICS
Can I start workin’ it a bit
While I think on it
Fore sure, I’d love to know the big picture
… if I start, I can always quit

If I wait to hesitate
Lost time can’t regurgitate
Repeat: to time defeat

In “The End” ride off into the sunset
’til then, I’ve started to begin
My friend, forget about regret
As long as the time that’s mine is livin’

I leave grievin’ starvin’
And keep on believin’ in lovin’

Leavin’ Grievin’ Starvin’ (Music Video).mp4

Leavin’ Grievin’ Starvin’.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A C E G A / G A C E A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Recorded live at Lake Wynonah in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderUnconditional For All

LYRICS
In the mish-mash of the humanity insanity
You are fine art removed from vanity
A perfect picture of compassion
With love you don’t ration

You’re giving away a sum
To anyone that wants some
Crossed the finish line, yet never done
Shinning brighter than the sun

Why don’t we all just do it
Hold all of us to it
Why not change the world
Before we get too old

In the mish-mash of the humanity insanity
You put optimism in opportunity
A pure champion of compassion
With love you don’t ration
(Unconditional for all)

Unconditional For All (Music Video).mp4

Unconditional For All.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A E B7 / A B7 E / E A B7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Recorded live at Lake Wynonah in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse with special guest Christopher on sledge and wedge (axe wielding)

bookmark_borderGuitar Feedback

LYRICS
For real, the guitar speaks for how I feel
What’s the deal? The guitar speaks for how I feel
Not that absurd when it’s heard
A tone tells a thousand words

Guitar Feedback (Music Video).mp4

Guitar Feedback.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E (and all variations including E7 E9 E11(13) Em E4, etc.)
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Recorded live at Lake Wynonah in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderIn My Blood

LYRICS
Why is that mosquito looking at me
Doesn’t he know… I’m not that tasty
Have I turned cold blooded (extremely)
Emotionally flooded
Don’t want to turn cold-hearted
Has it already started?

Why do I cry “I don’t want to die!”
While I should be giving…
Singing praises to the living
Raising my hands high to the sky
Thankful I am I
Don’t want to turn cold-hearted
Has it already started?

Time to consider turning innards outward
I’ve missed the starting gun?
Time to enact giving it back forward
Goodbye kissed n ready to run

In The Blood (Original Take).mp3

In The Blood (AltMix).mp3

In The Blood (Instrumental).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Dm Am+4 / C G Dm / Dm G
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderStanding On A Volcano

LYRICS
What do you know about standing on a volcano?
Spittin’… smokin’… gettin’ ready to blow
What do you know about standing on a volcano?
You gotta go with the lava flow
We’ll start to get it
When She throws a fit

What do you know about standing on a volcano?
Earth quake shake you to and fro
What do you know about standing on a volcano?
Might just deal the final blow

What do you know about standing on a volcano?
Pit Mother Nature as your foe
What do you know about standing on a volcano?
Damn! Sure hate to see you go

Forego making a stand on a volcano
Try n’ chill down-low mellow
Forego making a stand on a volcano
Less consequences you get to know

Standing On A Volcano (Music Video).mp4

Standing On A Volcano.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E G / A G E / G A E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWhat Is Is?

LYRICS
I’m finding the utmost interest
In relativity
Feeling dependence on existence
Surreality
Trying to make sense
Of perception without senses
Perceive what I believe
Experience presence
Leap from “Ludwig’s Ladder”
Leave logic a tattered
Chaos theory delivery
The irony of destiny
Sixth sense third-eye I see

Spring from the last rung
Among angels in song
Soul music being sung
Time can’t be too long
In the essence of existence
Is the essence of existence
In the absence of existence
Will exist persist?

What Is Is? (Music Video).mp4

What Is-Is? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em C7 E C7 / E C7 A [C G7 A]
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

Wittgenstein’s ladder
A Wittgenstein’s ladder is a simplified explanation of a technical or complex subject that is used as a teaching tool, despite being technically wrong. The term stems from proposition number 6.54 by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHoney Or Vaseline?

LYRICS
If everything were peaches and cream
Would you tire of the same old dream?
Do you catch more flies with honey
Or using Vaseline
If dreams are made of money
Puttin’ out fires with gasoline

If everything were coming up roses
Would you tire of the same old poses?

If your whole life was an easy ride
Would you miss a rising tide
If your whole life was an easy ride
Would you miss catchin’ high tide?

Do you wanna while-away and age
In a cage?

Honey Or Vaseline? (Music Video).mp4

Honey Or Vaseline? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em7 E7 A7 / B7 A7 E7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderYou Are My Hero

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_borderFloat Your Boat

Songwriting on the Brandywine
Songwriting on the Brandywine

LYRICS
Do you know what I mean
When I sing “floating down stream”?
Behave with the energy wave
… to the sea
Try to keep your head above water
Don’t ever go down for the third time
It really does matter
Living the nursery rhyme
Floating down stream
My body a boat in the dream
Embody “about” in the dream

Float Your Boat (Music Video on the Brandywine River).mp4

Float Your Boat Soundtrack.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em BM7aug C C7 / D6 C G
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

Written and recorded along the Brandywine River in Lenape, Chester County, Pennsylvania. (Home of the original indigenous Americans.) Written after the deaths of Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington it is an anti-suicide / pro-living life song.

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRedemption

LYRICS
Mother Nature says
It’s only a phase
The nuclear age
The good ole days
Have parted ways
Mother Nature says
It’s only a phase
Only a stage
Postmodern rage
Comin’ clean on the war machine
Funded by our ghetto scenes
The American dream going up in steam
From growing a heart that’s mean
Redeem!

The more I dream
The redeem scene
Obscene come clean
I mean the dream
No longer mean
Loving is keen
Heart is the queen
Mercy is seen
The redeem scene

Redemption (Music Video).mp4

Redemption.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A C E / E G A / G A A9
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

Written and recorded along the Brandywine River in Lenape, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Additional lyrical inspiration from the Guess Who’s American Woman.

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse