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bookmark_borderExtreme

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Music Video *Extreme*
Music Video *Extreme*

Extreme Music Video.mp4

Extreme.mp3

LYRICS
The scene I’m seeing — extreme
Obscene… we’d let it get to this point
Whose regret… the point of no return

Polar vortex hex on the East
Brave the heat wave on the West
At least…
Someone suggest, “Try our best!”

From what I’ve seen — extreme
I mean… talk about a butt joint
Someone shout, “Before the edge, turn!”

ABOUT THIS SONG
This song is about extreme weather events and human induced climate change. The day it was written and recorded the East and West coasts of the USA where acting bi-polar. The East was getting hammered with a snowstorm and polar vortex… while the West was on fire in a heat wave.

Chords — Em Em7

Daniel — Vocals, Electric Guitar, Synthesizers

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album In that case….
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRa

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Sun Songwriting
Sun Songwriting

Ra Part 3.mp3

LYRICS
Fusion
Confusion
Solar energy
The sun
No matter our distortion
Can’t help the synergy
No matter our destruction
Devastation, eradication
Let the light shine
It’ll all be fine
Just let the light shine
We’ll all be fine

Fusion
Confusion
If the nuclear
Is not clear
You’ve got Fusion Confusion

The sun

Ra, ra, ra
God of the sun
Ray, ray, ray
Which either way you say
Ra, ra, ra
Ray, ray, ray
Whichever way you say
Ra, ra
Ray, ray

Golden
God
The Sun

Turning the plants on
To being green
The sun
If you know what I mean
(Their fill of chlorophyll)

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F#

Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album School Of Fort Knocks
By Daniel Brouse

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LYRICS
Oh, Karen
It’s raining again
The opens
Pourin’ pours in

There’s a hard rain falling
Mother Nature’s calling

Deserts barren
Not raining at all
The dry searing
Parchin’ our skin

Earth’s climate falling
Mother Nature’s calling

Oh, Karen
It’s happening again
Extreme weather shenanigans
Volatility maximum

There’s a hard rain falling
Mother Nature’s calling

Karen.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 3
G Em7
D A Em G

This song was inspired by tropical storm Karen and extreme weather events caused by global warming.

Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, PA, United States of America.)

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Playing Cowboys (and Indians)
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderKing Of The Jungle

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LYRICS
What makes you so certain
That we’re apt to adapt
Our evolving motion
Could very well snap

Still we forget nature is fragile
We regret we mature… yet gullible
Forgot to think all we extinct
Jack broke his crown… just ask Jill

Acoustic Guitar Songwriting in West Chester, Pennsylvania
Acoustic Guitar Songwriting in West Chester, Pennsylvania

King Of The Jungle.mp4

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 1
D A7 Em
B

This song was inspired by a conversation I had with my son about global warming, Richard Dawkins and human’s ability to adapt / evolve.

Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHuman Induced

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Human Induced.mp3 (Free MP3 Download)

LYRICS
It’s so humid my innards are stew
Yeah, we’re hot and sweaty, too

Hot all day and all night
There’s no relief in sight
Ha ha ha hot

There’s a thunderstorm rollin’ through just ’bout every day
Our climate change is the volatile weather way

Well, the world won’t stop for you to get off
We’ll have to deal
No, we never could get to fulfill enough
We’ve made it real

Yowwwww

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 1
E7 Em
E7 A
E7 G A E7

Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

This song was inspired by more extreme weather events. Find out more about human induced climate change and global warming.

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Ahh
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOne Foot

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Songwriting at Marsh Creek State Park, Pennsylvania
Songwriting at Marsh Creek State Park, Pennsylvania

LYRICS
One foot in a flood
The other in a drought
At the cost of blood
One Forty-Four K naught

Chorus
In the Age of waste not, want not
We let the land of plenty rot
The last page… the last astronaut
Engage in rage… love’s forgot

We engage in rage and the love is forgot

One foot under water
The other in the grave
Worse than pigs, for sure
The way we behave

Chorus

One I for an I
Until we all die
Slowly torture
’till extinction

Chorus

One Foot.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — E add F, C, G#
Am
unknown chord F# B B G#

Made in the USA (Marsh Creek State Park and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

This song was written after I read a government report that said over 144,000 people a year are dieing from human induced climate change.  Then, I went to a favorite songwriting spot… and it was flooded higher than I’d ever seen.

Learn more about global warming.

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album True True
By Daniel Brouse

HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR PART

bookmark_borderUnnatural Selection

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LYRICS
Funny how one thing leads to another
Before you know it… it’s a chain reaction
Honey draws the flies more than vinegar
Suppose the choice lies in your selection

Chorus
Do you wonder how the other half lives
You might be surprised how much they give
Do you wonder, “What is my purpose?”
Is it more tan to be you, 2, 3, 4… for all of us

Sunny one minute cloudy the next
Before you know it… it’s a climate action
Money draws the lies out of context
Impose their will as some sort-of fiction

Chorus

Bunny goes from hunted to hunter
Who’s gonna die… who’s gonna live
The problem is not that perplexed
We will cause our own extinction

Chorus

Unnatural Selection.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C Am
D G
Am C

Made in the USA (Everhart Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

WARNING: Climate Change

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the Sir Vent album Now That Is Hot
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOuch!

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LYRICS
Off the frying pan and into the fire
(Transpire)
Ouch!

Mary had a little lamb and tied it to a heater
Every time it turned around
It burned it’s little seater

Sitting on a hot plate
Sitting on the stove
Temperature is temperate
What about the love?

Chorus

The climate change
Man has induced
Exponential
Runaway train

Chorus

Could we manage
To reproduce
Expressional love
Just the same

Chorus

Ouch! Are we insane
Bringing on the pain
Ouch! Do some remain
That want good to re-gain

Ouch!.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — G
C
Cmaj7 add G, F, D, C

Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

The song was inspired by a heat wave during the last week of May. I tried sitting on my usual songwriting wall, but the stone was so hot it burned my rear. If we could only love as good as we pollute?

WARNING: Climate Change

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the Sir Vent album Now That Is Hot
By Daniel Brouse

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Writing Music at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA
Writing Music at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA

LYRICS
Eighty-one degrees
When you’re sitting under the trees
Not even a hint of a cool, cool breeze

Thawing the perma-freeze
Deforestation, our own worst enemy
The human blight on serenity

How long will we go on
Until we stop, stop, stop?
How long will go on
Until we drop, drop, drop?

Eighty One.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 3
Em Am C G

This song is about global warming and a hot, humid day in early May. When my kids were very young, we considered buying a vacation house in Florida. I warned them that climate change would turn Pennsylvania into a Florida house by the time they had grandchildren. I was wrong. Today, Pennsylvania is turning tropical in May.

Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Firehose
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderIn The Pink

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LYRICS
Starting to think
’bout being in the pink
Waist deep in Spring
Summer’s approaching

Starting to ponder
What it means to wonder
Waste deep in Spring
Summer’s sizzling in

The climate, she’s a changing
Permanent as benevolence
Stalemate forever enduring
Arrogant as irreverence

In The Pink.mp4

Songwriting at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA
Songwriting at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Dm Asus
D D6 Em
Em G D
G A D

This song is about the lack of Spring caused by global warming. All the pink cherry blossoms have fallen off the trees and are about “waste deep”.

While I was writing this song, local artist John Hannafin stopped. He had painted a picture of the blossoming trees and wanted to know if he could paint me in.

Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Firehose
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderExtremes

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Extremes.mp3

Songwriting Extremes
Songwriting Extremes

LYRICS
Going, going, going to extremes

One minute it’s hot
The next it’s not

Going, going, going to extremes

One day it snows
The next… who knows

Going, going, going to extremes

It’s not whether there’s gonna be weather
It’s whether we’ll weather the weather

Going, going, going to extremes

After floods dry out
No doubt a drought

Going, going, going to extremes

What do you know
There goes a tornado

Going, going, going to extremes

Some sort of insane
Hurricane

Going, going, going to extremes

Hell, is that hail?
My head’s too frail

Pretty soon a foreign typhoon
Rain of monsoon

Going, going, going to extremes

The answer’s blowin’ in the wind

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — E hammer B, G
G A E
B E

Why we’re having volatile and extreme weather events:
Volatile Weather

Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover is Retreating

Snow Covered Desert

Global Warming And Climate Volatility

Rock And Roll Romper Room: the Modern Music Magazine, Articles …

Volatile Weather. “the GOES-13 satellite, captures the massive winter storm currently affecting much of the United States” — National Oceanic …

A 1-track stereo recording made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Two Way Street Beat
By Daniel Brouse

HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR PART

bookmark_borderLiving In A Swamp

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LYRICS
It sucks when you’re living in a swamp
Yet, it seems that’s what we want
When confronted with the taste of our waste
We throw a fit over our own shit
And cry, and rant, and stomp

More coal and oil until we spoil
Yes, it seems that’s what we want
When confronted with the wast of our taste
We recoil and start to boil

Blowin’ methane and monoxides sky high
Patience of the temperate… we try

Sucks livin’ in a swamp

Living In A Swamp.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 2
Intro Em G
E A addG
E G D A E

The song is about Human Induced Climate Change.

A 3-track stereo recording made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Two Way Street Beat
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOh! Susanna (Part 2)

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Writing the song Oh! Susanna Part 2
Writing the song Oh! Susanna Part 2

LYRICS
It rained all night the day I left
The it was dry
And, we all go marching
Down into the ground
To get out of the rain

When January feels like June
Wake up! Wake up! And, none too soon
And we all go searching
Everywhere all around
To get our of the rain

Oh! Susanna
Won’t you cry for me
Oh! Susanna
All can surely see
Oh! Susanna
It’s a tragedy

Oh! Susanna Part 2.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 1
C Am
G Am

Written and recorded on January 12, 2013 in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 4-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. After posting this status on Facebook, the song was written and recorded on the streets: “Hmmm… 60 degrees in January… perfect day to take music to the streets… maybe write a global warming song?”

It started while I was sleeping… I heard a news report about severe weather being the new normal. Then, I started hearing a mix of the Stephen Foster song Oh! Susanna and the children’s version of Johnny Comes Marching Home known as The Ants Go Marching (and a dash if You Are My Sunshine)… kind-of tossing traditional irony with a modern day twist.

Part of the Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the Snake Handling Immortal Tongue Speakers‘ album Music Muse
By Daniel Brouse

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR:

bookmark_borderKnow No Snow

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Know No Snow Music Video

LYRICS
Sitting on the bed
Looking out the window
Shaking of my head
Blocking out the shadow

When I was a child it use to snow
Since then, man went wild
Now, you never know

Standing with the keys
Pining out the window
Opportunity to seize
Singing to the snow
Where did you go?

We know
What we did to you, Snow
Please last
Please forgive us
For we know what we’ve done
First is last is first is last

Please forgive us,
Quasi-civilization Of The Dumb

Know No Snow.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — A D A
A Em7 A

Written and recorded December 29, 2012 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as an extemporaneous, 1-track, stereo, digital recording. It started snowing today, and it made me long for days gone. So, I thought I’d write a song for part of our Human Induced Climate Change Experiment and an article entitled Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover is Retreating. (Also see: Record Warming)

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Virgin Earthling
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOne By One

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LYRICS
The people go marching one by one
Hoorah, hooray
The people go marching one by one
To get out of the sun
They better run

The people go marching two by two
I don’t know… is that you?
That’s me, too
We better run
One by one

The people go marching three by three
The last one stops to see if he can see
The blue sky one more time
And, I’m…
… I’m wishing so too
How about you?

The people go marching four by four
Please don’t forget to shut the door
’cause we don’t know how much more
Hoorah, hooray
It’s man’s last day
He better run
One by one

The people go marching five by five
Better hurry to take the dive
If you want to stay alive
Hoorah, hooray
Could be our final day
We better run
One by one
Before we become undone

The people are marching one by one
For their last hoorah… hooray!

Hooray, hooray… the people are on their way
Perhaps now we can save the day

One-By-One.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G F E

Written and recorded on December 1, 2012 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is about Tunneling Under and global warming.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album You Made the Bed You Lie In
By Daniel Brouse