Tag: folk rock

bookmark_borderAngel Well

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LYRICS
Drink from the angel well

The more you put into it
The more you can get
The more you get
The more you can give
The more you give
The better “the live”
What’s it take to initiate?
Given the livin’
Lovin’ the givin’
Givin’ the lovin’
Is a given

The more you can take
Before you break
The more you can break
From harsh intake
The more you deflect
What’s incorrect
The more intake
To facilitate
Given the livin’
Lovin’ the givin’
Givin’ the lovin’
Is a given

You fit the angel well

Angel Well.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the 2017 holiday album of music Christmas Creations
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRatify

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LYRICS
Did you ever see a rat and a cat?
They just can’t get along
When oil and vinegar are related
They’re always separated

Can you lend me hand
To try and understand
Why we can’t get together
Why never say never?

A snowman with a suntan
What makes it oh so wrong
Or an alligator with a sunbather
It’s a one-sided savor

When a hawk comes a bluejay’s way
Is squawking a bird’s song
Give some candy to a baby
The survivor is no maybe

The rat and I will have to testify
Will I ratify
The rat and you will have to do that, too
Will you testify
Will you ratify

Ratify (Music Video).mp4

Ratify.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Metal
Chords: E A G E / E G D A E
Recording: digital 7-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Organ

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFor Friends Giving

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LYRICS
The cooks are in the kitchen
Smells like it won’t be too long
The scent gets me itchin’
For a savory holiday song

Takin’ a trip down memory lane
Do you want to remain
Or come along?

I feel that appetite
And, it’s coming on strong
Gonna try with all my might
Temptation don’t steer me wrong

(chorus)

What dish do you fancy
Something we have or you brought along
Maybe turkey with gravy
Dilute with moonshine… we all belong

(chorus)

From the heart
It’s coming through true
From the soul impart
The “thank you” you are do!

(chorus)

For Friends Giving.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

Written at Friendsgiving in Pittsfield, MA.

From the 2017 holiday album of music Christmas Creations
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHammerhead

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LYRICS
With a little stammer
“Take this hammer,”
He said,
“And, hit it with a hammer!”
Hit it with a hammer?
I didn’t understand the detail:
Nail the nail
I thought I was it
Bam! Impale
Hit it with a hammer
Like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer
It’s hard for me to feel the appeal
Where’s the glamour
… hit it with a hammer?

He did deliver
A screwdriver
Am I a believer?
Some how I misconstrued
Screw the screw
Now I’m screwed

Hit it with a hammer
“Hit the nail on the head”
Wish he would have said

Hammerhead.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe All Day Blues

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LYRICS
This is intended to be a jam
Happening just right around the bend
In the very near future
Chances are large by the time you hear this
Unless you are light years away
And it takes more than a day
This is a jam in the key of the blues
A little improv. jam bordering on jazz?
Whoa! I don’t want to blow smoke up your ass
This ain’t no jazz
Just a lil’ improv. in the key of the blues
Now wouldn’t it be a real sin
TO throw a little Latin in
And what the heck
You might even say it’s a little Gaelic
Druid… fluent in fluid Druid
Wait! I though you said this is in the key of the blues?
Yes, it could be a sin to throw too much Latin in
I woke up this morning, and I got out of bed
And had to shake my head
I woke up this morning and got out of bed
(Which isn’t that unusual… not until I checked my head)
Then I said, what’s going on?
I gotta get my blues jam on
Get it on all day long
’nuff said
[the guitar does the talking]
Whoa! Playing the blues all morning
Into the evening
Working the blues
(I said,
I just can’t get that song out of my head)
The blues isn’t something
You can do in passing
No, no! Ya got to do it with some passion
You’ve got to do with your heart and soul
You know that takes its toll
[guitar talks with soul]
Careful you might catch the blues
The blues flues
Is going around
The blues flu
Coming through
Could effect you
It’s alright to get up and dance some, too
Shake those blues
At the end of the day
When there’s nothing to do you can say
… just couldn’t shake the blues
All day paying my dues
And tomorrow
Imagine the sorrow
That’s really blue
Nothing I could do
The evening blues
Nothing I could do
You work all day paying your dues
The everyday blues… turned into the night… into broad daylight
Alright
Though it may be dark out there
The light shines in here
Let the light shine on you
Pass through you and turn blue
Then do all the good you can do

The All Day Blues.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Blues
Chords: Key of the Blues (E)
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderGood Dog?

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LYRICS
Can you teach your old dog a new trick
Get him to fetch
Or sit, sit, sit?
How about if you said
“Roll over. Play dead.”
Do you think it’ll take
If you ask him to shake?

He’ll bring you joy
He’s such a good boy
(As long as he is sleeping)

If not your dog, how about your kitty
Can you get her to sit up pretty
Or get her to stay
As you walk away?
Or get her to come
So you can pet her some?

She’s your heart’s pearl
Oh, such a good girl
(As long as she’s sleeping)
Oh no… is her eye peeping?

Good Dog? .mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSo Complicated

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LYRICS
You mean it doesn’t have to be so complicated
… as simple as that?

Here’s a list:
Does space exist?
Is the thought odd
Of sensing God?
Then how on Earth… or above…
Can I say, “God is love”?
… as simple as that?
You mean it doesn’t have to be so complicated
… as simple as that?

Imagine this…
Add it to the list:
Frictionless
You’re in space and just like that — SNAP!
Your tether goes snap
My suggestion:
Stick with friction
Friction saves your life every time it rains
Without friction the rain would go right through our brains!
Thus, avoid frictionless
… as simple as that?
You mean it doesn’t have to be so complicated
… as simple as that?

So Complicated.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Em / Eb Em slide up an octave to Em Eb / D Em
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_border100% Chance of Whether

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LYRICS
At first we started wondering why
The earth had become so dry
Jilted, wilted, parched and cracked
Not a drop of water as a matter of fact

Maybe we spoke to soon
Here comes a massive monsoon
Prepare to take a ride
On the mountain’s mudslide

This weather is as volatile
As a cross-eyed crocodile
Don’t mistake the rile
For a smile

Mother Nature going insane
Another psychopathic hurricane
I am whipped, beatin’ and slammed
Don’t know if I’m going home?

100 Percent Chance of Whether.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: E A G E / E A B7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMama Said Suite

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Matt Eck — Banjo
Daniel — Piano
James “Pops” Brouse — Audience Participation

bookmark_borderOver Do

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LYRICS
When I think of you
On a cold winter’s night
All I want to do
Is hold you tight

Do you feel we’re overdue
For a lovely rendezvous
A close encounter

Can he hold her?

Do you feel overdue
To be in touch for a few
A close encounter

Please embrace her!

When I dream of you
In the broad daylight
All I want to do
Is hold you tight

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Em C6 / Am G F Em; 83 BPM Shuffle Rock and 16 Beat #3
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards (Korg PS60 Keyboard, Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard, MiniNova Synthesizer, MicroKorg, Casio Wk-3500)

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderEngine-Ear

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LYRICS
Conductor! Conductor!
Check your vector
(check and a re-check check)
We’re on a runaway symphony
It’s easy to see
And I do say
Alert the engine-ear
Right hear!
Right now!
Wow!

Try to cut loose
The caboose
Chasing this train in vain
’cause Conductor, I checked and re-checked our vector
Why chase the train in vain
Off the tracks
No come-backs
This train is runaway
Wouldn’t you say?
On a runaway symphony
Better alert the engine-ear
Ya better stand clear
It’s out-of-control… we’re all… out-of-control
In fact, Conductor,
It’s sounding more and more
Like Rock n’ Roll
… ain’t that classical at all

The End of the line is a mighty fine line
They say you don’t want to cross
This ain’t no coin toss
They say you don’t want to take any chances
’cause there are no seconds
Minutes, days, years
No more tears…
No more joys…
No more noise
No, no more more
No, no train will remain

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Eb / Db Gb Eb; 136 BPM Slow Rock Casio and 8 Beat Soft Yamaha
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Playground

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LYRICS
Down the slide
Another ride
And why not
… to the top!
Look around
Slide back down

Merry-go-round
Circles found
A life’s cycle
Turn around
And rebound

Just how far
On monkey bars
A bizarre
Among the stars
Reach The End
Do it again

Be quite sure
Of the metaphor
The playground
We have found
Is the instance
Of existence

The Playground.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Swamp

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LYRICS
What do we get
When we drain the swamp?
Thump!
We get wet
And, I think
It causes quite a stink
Yo! You know
Ya got some skunk in your cabbage
Your extra baggage
I thunk it stunk
What do you think
Causing quite a stink?!?!?!
What do you want
When you drain the swamp?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest / Progressive Rock
Chords: Key of C; Dm / C Dm; 68 Beats Per Minute; Slow Ballad and Twist add Techno Bass
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards (all extemporaneous and simultaneously one-man-band style)

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderA Cold November Day

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Christmas Candle Light
Christmas Candle Light

LYRICS
There’s a way
A cold day
Gets the season
Underway
Then, the glow
Sunshine in the window
Participant in the radiant
With warmth, come to know

The leaves left
Leaving in the light
Shadow’s theft
Looming is the night
Afterglow
Lighting candles in a row
Participant in the radiant
With warmth come to know

If time must transpire
Might as well, light a fire
Participants in the radiance
If time must transpire
By the light of the fire
By a candle light’s glow
With warmth come to know

A Cold November Day (Music Video).mp4

A Cold November Day.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the 2017 holiday album of music Christmas Creations
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDown In Front

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LYRICS
Sit down in the front row?
Well, I just don’t know
If you’re going to a show
Then, go, go, go
Stand up for a moment
Like a monument
Stand up and be counted
Addi it up… amounted
You know, mojo?
Get off your seat upon your feet
Get your feet upon your seat
If you’re rocking to the beat
Add heat, heat, heat

Down In Front Prelude.mp3

Down In Front.mp3

Down In Front Instrumental.mp3

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

Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion

From the album Hear Here
by Daniel Brouse