environment – ExperiMental Music

Man Vs. Nature (In Overtime)

Posted on September 10, 2017September 10, 2017 by admin

LYRICS
What’s that? “You better get back?”
’cause she’s going to get me back
I’m in overtime
… in overtime

Mother Nature’s wrath
Gonna take a bath
Paying for our crime
… in overtime

Harvey and Irma wave a wake
Shake and bake
Another earthquake
What will it take
Mother Nature’s wrath
Gonna take a bath
Paying for our crime
… in overtime

Don’t breathe. No relief.
Eat the dirt. Ozone alert.
Environmental mental thief
Hit the dirt. We’re going nuclear

Not sure of the future
Man vs. Nature

Mother Nature’s wrath
Gonna take a bath
Paying for our crime
… in overtime

Man Vs. Nature.mp4

Man Vs. Nature (Instrumental).mp3

Man Vs. Nature.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about humans’ war with the world. Human induced climate change, extreme weather events, and the threat of nuclear war could result in the end of the world as we know it.

Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: A E / B7 A G E / Em7 E
Recording: digital stereo 1) original live 1-track 2) 9-track

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

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

From the album Gay Church

LYRICS
The leaves are leaving
As the waves wave
Bye-bye
Ma Nature is grieving
She hates seeing suns die
Mother is screaming,
“Pick up your things!
What’s the matter with those human beings?
Give them an inch, they’ll take the yard
They refuse to yield… took the whole damn field
Come on, Man, life shouldn’t be this hard”

The leaves are leaving
As the waves wave
Bye-bye
Ma Nature is disbelieving
Shakes her head and wonders why?
Mother is screaming,
“Take out your trash!
What’s the matter with those human beings?
Anything they won’t smash?”
Disfigure land and sea temperature
Even error the air… errrah!

Take Leave.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about humans and their habitat.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: C Dm G C / Dm C G
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

Come Out

Posted on May 13, 2017May 23, 2017 by admin

LYRICS
Haven’t we met before
Weren’t you coming out the door
I recognize your face
Coming out of that place
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Like a bug meeting windshield
Your insides revealed
What are you made of….
Any of it love
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Like a bug meeting windscreen
When your insides are seen
Your innards… what you ate
Full of hate?
Are you full of hate
Appreciate the love

Have we met before
Will your memory endure
What are you made of….
Any of it love
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Come Out.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by an article from Science Magazine and the songs Fly On The Windshield and Carpet Crawlers by Genesis.

From the Science article Where have all the insects gone?
12 May 2017
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6338/576.full

Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany. Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. “I’m a very data-driven person,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon. “But it is a visceral reaction when you realize you don’t see that mess anymore.”

Neonicotinoid pesticides, already implicated in the widespread crash of bee populations, are a prime suspect.

Paying attention to what E. O. Wilson calls “the little things that run the world” is worthwhile, Sorg says. “We won’t exterminate all insects. That’s nonsense. Vertebrates would die out first. But we can cause massive damage to biodiversity—damage that harms us.”

Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Bm C Em Esus
Rhythm: 120 BPM 6/8 Rock
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Electric Guitar Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

The Give the Dog the Bone

Posted on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015 by admin

LYRICS
There was a farmer who had a dog
No sense in being a hog
Now give the dog a bone

You’re only going to eat the meat
Why not give the dog a treat
Yeah, give the dog a bone

We’re garbage prone
When left to our own
Devices our vices

In the gasp of a flash we’ve made more trash
Better find a real solution to all of our pollution
Like “give the dog a bone”

Chorus

You’re only going to eat the flesh
What about the rest of the mess
The “give the dog the bone”

Chorus

The Give the Dog the Bone Music Video.mp4

The Give the Dog the Bone.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E A G
D E
B7 A E
E-e-g#

A 1-track live stereo recording. Written and recorded live at Marshall Square Park in West Chester, PA.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Some-her-time
by Daniel Brouse

Ozone Prone

Posted on May 15, 2015May 15, 2015 by admin

LYRICS
How can we be totally free if we destroy our destiny?

Can you see through the tree
’cause it’s bothering me
Hopin’ it’s just temporary
’cause how can we be free… totally free… if we destroy destiny?

Can you see through the tree
’cause it’s bothering me
It’s coming to me clearly
If we can see through the tree, we’re destroying our destiny
Can’t be free if we destroy destiny

Sylvania can it be we’re in atrophy
I appear to be alone in knowing the causes of ozone
When you’re driving a car burning ethanol, you’re not burning it all
Blowing holes through trees
’till it dies… it ceases and you can see through to the sky
When the leaves cease
Makes me wonder how we can ever be free if we destroy our destiny

Ozone Prone.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
B Bm

124 BPM / 16 Beat #2

A song about how ozone pollution is destroying our destiny. The “green” ethanol in gasoline creates ozone that is killing all the trees (and our lungs.)

1-track stereo extemporaneous recording made on-the-fly with impromptu lyrics.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and Computer

From the album Emerging Music
by Daniel Brouse

Fooling With Mother Nature

Posted on May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 by admin

Fooling With Mother Nature Music Video.mp4

Fooling With Mother Nature.mp3

LYRICS
Mother Nature is getting her act together
Looks like we’re in for some extreme weather
Better batten down the hatches
Check the locks and check the latches
The clouds foreshadowing doom
‘less corrective action is taken soon

Better of not fooling with Mother Nature
Just another man-made folly for sure
Amaze with a haze… the lines we blur
Bringing on the rapture is no cure
The clouds foreshadowing doom
‘less corrective action is taken soon

We had better think twice ’bout being nice
Skating on thin ice won’t suffice
Deadline is upon us… time to pay the price
Stork of midnight. Coach to pumpkin. Horses to mice.
The clouds foreshadowing doom
‘less corrective action is taken soon

ABOUT THE SONG
A7 D6
A7 G D6

A song about human induced climate change.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Buzzing
by Daniel Brouse

Our Country Cause Of We

Posted on March 18, 2013 by admin

Our Country Cause Of We.mp3

LYRICS
Looking around me, I must confess…
I must confess
We’ve made a mess
Focusing to see, the giant mess…
A giant mess
We need address

Chorus
We’re clogging up and hogging up
’till we fail the test
We’re chocking up… lack of mopping up
’till the rest ain’t left

Asking around me, I try to digest
I try to digest
Why not the best?
Trying to see, why we digress
Why we digress
We could care less

Chorus

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G Am
G Am D G

An extemporaneous 1-track stereo recording made in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the Sir Vent album of music In Song
By Daniel Brouse

Own Worst Enemy

Posted on March 18, 2013March 18, 2013 by admin

A song inspired by a friend’s Facebook post:

So, 88-98% of corn, cotton (cotton oil–as in what a lot of potato chips are cooked in), canola oil, and soybean crops grown are genetically engineered. About 80% of the crops are to feed livestock. So what evolution has taken 3 billion years to create, humankind can destroy in 40 years. Maybe that’s the plan, to kill off our own kind to revert back to the beginning, with a little plastic and holes in the ozone as a special bonus. Kudos, Homo sapiens. We’ve really “outdone” ourselves.

LYRICS
What is it that I walk upon?
I wish we had the insight to look on and on and on
And, we found the ground
Underneath our feet
Are we going to be our own defeat?

What is that that I breath
Has the air gone up in thin air
Is there something more than just our air in there
What is it we breath
Are we our own disease?

Will we beat
Into defeat
Will we beat
Our own defeat

What is that in our food
Is it any good
What we eat
Are we our own defeat?

I don’t think we can cheat Mother Nature
It’s us we beat into defeat

We’re going to beat ourselves into defeat
And, I would say it’s time to change the seat
This game of musical chairs is going nowhere
I don’t want to be the last one standing
It won’t be any fun if I’m the only one that does remain
It might even drive you insane

Own Worst Enemy.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Also know as “We Eat Defeat”

Chords — Cm Fm G7

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

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Effects

Learn more about what we are doing to ourselves

From the Narley Marley album of music Mind Your P’s & Q’s, Oates and Barley
By Daniel Brouse

Apeman

Posted on February 17, 2013February 18, 2013 by admin

Originally made famous by The Kinks
Written by Ray Davies

D D D D D A A   D  E  A

A                                                               E      Esus4  E
I think I'm sophisticated cos I'm living my life like a good Homosapien
    A                                                 
But all around me everybody's multiplying
               E                           Esus4  E
Till they're walkin' round like flies man
   D                                                 A                  Asus4  A
So I'm no better than the animals sitting in their cages in the zoo man
                                                        E           A
Cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees I am an ape man

A                                                               E      Esus4  E
I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized cos I'm a strict vegetarian
    A                                                           E      Esus4  E
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation and the crazy politicians
D                           
I don't feel safe in this world no more
A
I don't want to die in a nuclear war                             
                                           E           A
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man

A                                             E
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, oh I'm an ape man
A                                                E
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodoo man, oh I'm an ape man
     D
Cos compared to the sun that sits in the sky
A
Compared to the clouds as they roll by
                                               E           A
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies I am an ape man

D  D  D  D  D    A  A    D  E  A   RIFF 1
La la la la la,  la la

BRIDGE:
A                                          E
In man's evolution he has created the cities and the motor traffic rumble
A                                             E
But give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
         D                                 A
Cos the only time that I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree
                            E              A      RIFF 1
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an ape man

I'm an ape, I'm an ape ape man, oh I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voodoo man, oh I'm an ape man
I look out my window, but I can't see the sky
The air pollution is a-foggin' up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive and make like an ape man

D  D  D  D  D   A  A    D  E  A
La la la la la, la la

             E                A 
Ah come and love me,   be my ape man girl
                  E                A   
And we will be so happy    in my ape man world

CHORUS #3:
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, oh I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man, oh I'm an ape man
I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane
I'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane
We'll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day
Just like an ape man   RIFF 1

CHORUS #4:
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, oh I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man, oh I'm an ape man
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war                           
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man

D  D  D  D  D    A  A    D  E  A
La la la la la,  la la

Apeman.mp3 (Kinks Coversong)

From the album Here Comes The Flood
By Daniel Brouse

Welcome to the Land of Wonders

Posted on January 1, 2013 by admin

Welcome to the Land of Wonders.mp3

LYRICS
Welcome to the land of wonders
An experiment in Man’s blunders
Accumulation with the culmination
Man-made self-annihilation

Where fact is stranger than fiction
We’re humans fixed on eradication

Pollution’s fogging up the sky
Never bothering to even ask, “Why”
Pollution’s fouling the waterfowl
We shrug our shoulders and say, “Oh, well.”

Where fact is stranger than fiction
We’re humans fixed on eradication

The natural order we re-arrange
Resulting in human induced climate change
Ice is melting. Sea level is rising.
You’d think by now we’d be realizing

Where fact is stranger than fiction
We’re humans fixed on eradication

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em C(M7) Cm7

Written and recorded on January 1, 2013 (New Years Day) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital 8-track stereo recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

Know No Snow

Posted on December 29, 2012December 29, 2012 by admin

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

Cascades (The Fall of the Waterfall)

Posted on October 20, 2012October 20, 2012 by admin

Songwriting In The Cascades, BIacksburg, Virginia

LYRICS
The quite chill of an autumn morning
The lichen might consider quite trite
But, the human glare finds it worthwhile to stare
As the fluid cascades amongst the solid
The sunlight cascades over the mountain top
Spilling colors of every hue

Any man must stop to ponder what it is we did
Every man must stop to wonder the wonder if we stop
Look what progress did to the fish
Look what our standard of living has lost
Look what it is we do
Maybe we should be careful for what we wish
Open our eyes. Open our ears. Heed the warning…
Before the waterfalls fall

ABOUT THE SONG
Dm
Am (slide down an octave while strumming)
Am / C

Written on October 20, 2012 at the Cascades and Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Motivated by The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment.

From the album Have Camera. Will Travel
by Daniel Brouse

Ozone Poisoning

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by admin

LYRICS
If you can see the sky
Ask: why?

Turn from green to brown
Fall down
Like a cannonball sailed through
Deny it… will you?

Simple reasoning
Points to ozone poisoning

When the conditions are right with sunlight
Volatile ozone ignites
Blasting right through a tree
Blasting right through you and me

Now it’s been sung
Imagine your lung
Without a tree
Where will our oxygen be?

Ozone Poisoning.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 2
Em add A, C#, F#
Em add F#, C#, A

Written and recorded August 21, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, PA.

The title says it all — ozone poisoning. Ozone poisoning is killing almost every tree, as well as, you and me.

Tropospheric Ozone = Bad Ozone

The Ozone Know Zone

Gasoline Plus Ethanol Equals Bad Ozone

Lift Off

Posted on August 21, 2012August 22, 2012 by admin

LYRICS
How can we achieve flight
if we hold on too tight
The trick is getting to know
When to let go

When there’s not a human to be found
The world will still be spinning round
When there’s not a sole left in sight
Nature’s there to nurture curve

Don’t be made a fool. Make a sound.
Let those fools all be hellbound
There’s still you and me to set things right
Nature’s there to nurture. We’re sure.

5,4,3,2,1 Ignition suggestion
Lift off!

Lift Off.mp3

Lift Off (Writing the Song) Video .mp4

ABOUT THIS SONG
E
E / A / G
G / A / E
E / D

Written and recorded on August 12, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is about environmental action and believing you can make a change. Learn more about the deforestation of the Earth and human induced climate change.

Daniel – Guitar, Vocals

from the album Souled
by Daniel Brouse

Woozy

Posted on January 14, 2012 by admin

From The Beatless Sense Monger Album *Twenty-twelve*

Woozy Remix 1.mp3

la, la, la, cray, cray, cray,
woo, woo, woo, woozy….

diz, diz, diz, dizzy….
woo, woo, woo, woozy….
loosing equilibrium….
gonna fall on our rectum….
more then wreck ’em….
we’re gonna kill ’em….

going….
cray, cray, cray, crazy…..
a wasted life….
being….
la, la, la, lazy….

now….
the state we’re in….
gotta begin….
all over again….

R, T, Z,
Yo,
Fellow,
R, T, Z,
Return,
To,
Zero!

yow!
our inner ear….
must not be clear….
have you discovered….
we’re falling over….

la, la, la, lazy….
cray, cray, cray, crazy…..
diz, diz, diz, dizzy….
woo, woo, woo, woozy….

la, la, la, cray, cray, cray,
woo, woo, woo, woozy….

by Daniel Brouse