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LYRICS
Once I was in love
With just one human being
Then after seeing
Wonder how monogamy won?
Would much rather
That love from above
Then to gather
Pain from a strain
Love for all
Everywhere
Not a stall
Became aware (become aware)
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am G F E
bridge E G C
C Am
137 Beats Per Minute / 16 Beat Ballad
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
From the album Lifterupper
By Daniel Brouse
Have You Heard the Big Bang Music Video.mp4
Have You Heard the Big Bang? .mp3
LYRICS
Don’t let the gravitational pull
Pull the wool
Over your eyes
Big bang!
Surprise
Now, here’s the thang
Though not quite in grasp of your fingers
It still lingers
The way Big Bang behaves…
Primordial gravitational waves
I mean, it’s worthy of a primal scream
Yeeha! Big bang!
ABOUT THIS SONG
This song is about the discovery of The Big Bang. (Big Bang animation courtesy of NASA)
Chords — Em FM7
Em7
Em7(11)
136 Beats Per Minute / Fast Ballad
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
From the album Lifterupper
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
If you don’t like what you’re hearin’
Would you rather be deaf?
Maybe you’re better off doin’
What you do best
Can you write a song?
How about do a dance?
If you could sing, that’d be just the thing
Sing, along
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — D
Dm7 DmM7
Vocals start low bass and rise, rise, rise
120 Beats Per Minute / Hard Rock
Daniel — Vocals, Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard and  microKorg Synthesizer
From the album Lifterupper
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Those that lie dead
Buried
Will rise up
Rise up!
I’ve heard it said
Those that lie dead
Will rise up
Rise up!
If ya ever worried
Those that lie dead
Buried
Will rise up
Rise up!
Eclipse your worst nightmare of a zombie apocalypse
Eclipse the Zombie Apocalypse
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F# F#m GmM7 C#sus4
140 beats per minute / Jazz Waltz
Inspired by the Book Of Daniel 12:2
“Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Apocalypse
An apocalypse, translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation, although this sense did not enter English until the 14th century. Wikipedia
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.
From the album Daniel “The End Of Times”
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Food for thought
Fear not
Fear not
Fear not God
Fear not
Fear not
Romans wrought
Smear a lot
All love
All love
Nothing odd
With loving God
Fear not
Fear not
Fear not God
She’s a beautiful sensation
Sure beatin’ damnation
A hell of a gal
She’s a beautiful sensation
Sure beatin’ damnation
Bring well to us all
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 5
Em
C Am Em
Em G
This song was inspired by a woman holding a sign in downtown West Chester. One side of the sign said, “Sin is death. Christ is life. Romans 6:23”
However, her quote is taken out of context. The Bible actually reads:
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
On the other side of the sign, it read “Fear God”.
Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Start slow… as you go
Grow momentum
Take a little
And, give back some
You know… as you grow
You won’t be the second fiddle
Be a dreamster
Rock star of love
Um… so….
What party you can throw
Stray from middle
The seeds you’ll sow
To and fro toward hero
For second best don’t settle
Be a dreamster
Rock star of love
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 1
Am Em
Am +G +F# -C+F
Am C Em
Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
How can you attest
That’s resisting arrest?
All she was doing
Was a peaceful protest
Then, you come down on her
Like a Gestapo mob
Take away freedom
And, her liberty rob
That’s what I cal
Shitty authority
You know it when
It stinks to high heaven
You take from all
Sucking royally
As if the creator dictator
At any rate
Create
Dictate
Gangster mobster police state
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C CM7
E Em
C E
Inspired by a peaceful protester getting arrested at the Liberty Bell.
Made in America (Liberty Bell, Philadelphia and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
What is our solution
To the saline solution
Can you see
We’ve left the sea
In a terrestrial evolution
Hear we’re filling the ocean
With our own pollution
Can you see
We’re killing the sea
In a tribal revolution
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — G Em
Am D G
This song was inspired by a trip to the Shore with my son. It got me thinking that the human body is mostly salt water. I fail to see how we can pollute the sea.
Made in the USA (Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Standing in the ocean
Watching the tide roll out
I start to thinking
My feet are sinking
I begin figgerin’
What life’s about
Standing in the ocean
Watching the tide roll in
As I get a notion
My body’s in motion
The spirit’s en route
Life’s precious… no doubt
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 3
A C
E A
Made in the USA (Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Don’t blink. Don’t think.
Do wink. No kink.
If you read the signs and obey
You might be headed the wrong way
Don’t always believe what they say
Or from the path you may stray
Ding-dong. Clock’s gong.
Time slide in stride
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am D
Am D G Am
This song was motivated by people’s t-shirts.
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, PA, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel
LYRICS
The scent of salt water
Couldn’t get much better
The cool ocean breeze
You can do as you please
The girls are so cute
In their swimming suit
Mankind’s man kind
Pleasures the mind
Looking so skinny
In a tiny bikini
Wholesome and fresh
Pleasures of the flesh
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — D slide to 4th fret, slide to 5th fret
D A E
A E
Made in the USA (Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel
LYRICS
If you say, “I’m sick of this.”
Don’t want to hear your vinegar and piss
The way things are going
Let’s hope we keep growing
Sooner or later we’ll get in to knowing
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 4
Em Am
D6
This song was inspired by the Alt-J soundcheck for the summer block party concert. Instead of saying, “Testing 1,2,3”, he complained.
Made in the USA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
What if the Earth is a spaceship
Full of illegal aliens seeking some asylum
And on the stormy seas (sees) overturn… flip
Will there be a rescue? Will there be refuge?
Will we be taken in? Or will they refuse?
Chorus
When you know you’re feeling like Snowden
There’s absolutely no where to go… then,
You realize your relative size
A sheep in sheep’s clothes. No lies. No guise.
What if you were fleeing a brutal rule
Praying for a Christmas past Christmas Island
Instead a new guinea pig in (Papua) New Guinea
Please tell me who really is the fool
Treat everyone as enemy not as friend?
What is your motive? Fear, control or pinch a penny?
Chorus
The most sought after by the Central Intelligence Agency
Please, oh, please take me to your leaders
For if there is intelligent life here, I’ve yet to see
Appears the hypocrites are all traitors
Trying to prevent all that should be
Turning our futures into laters
Chorus
ABOUT THIS SONG
This song was inspired by the news of the day:
US officials fume over Russia granting asylum to Snowden | Fox News
The White House and U.S. lawmakers fumed Thursday after NSA leaker Edward Snowden entered Russia on temporary refugee status….
Edward Snowden wakes up to life in Russia – CBS News
Ex-NSA leaker is now officially a refugee being protected by Russia, but he won’t exactly be enjoying the freedom he previously knew.
Russia Grants NSA Leaker Snowden Asylum; Not Heading To Latin America
Snowden has received offers of asylum from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, but the logistics of reaching any of those countries are ….
PNG opposition mounts legal challenge as first asylum seekers land | Brisbane Times
Papua New Guinea’s opposition has resurrected a constitutional challenge to Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island as the first group of asylum seekers arrive to experience Labor’s tough resettlement policy. The 40 mainly Iranian and Afghan single men were flown from Christmas Island late on Wednesday and touched down on Manus Island on Thursday morning.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Refugee advocates are concerned for the safety of asylum seekers in Nauru after large-scale riots at the island’s detention centre late last month. Yesterday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed a deal with Nauru’s president that will see asylum seekers who arrive by boat in Australia sent to Nauru to have their claims processed and possibly resettle there. But an Asylum Seeker
Resource Centre spokeswoman is worried about hostility from the local people towards asylum seekers. A fortnight ago, asylum seekers being held on Nauru rioted, causing $60 million in damage to the facilities there.
Drowning in neglect | ljazeera.com
Three people have drowned and about 40 others were still missing … Does Australia have any legal or moral responsibility toward refugees …
Australia Says 120 Refugees May Have Drowned Off Indonesia | www.businessweek.com
More than 120 asylum seekers may have drowned off Indonesia, according to the Australian government, which is reopening offshore …
Almost 1,000 asylum seekers, often from war-torn Middle Eastern and South Asian nations, are known to have drowned in the waters between Indonesia and Australia since 2001. While the number of people seeking asylum in Australia is dwarfed by applications to the U.S., the issue has dogged Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s government, which is clawing back from near record-low approval ratings before elections due next year.
Chords — C C+G C-C+G#
G D C
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
I tried dialing “Operator”
A message said, “Try (again) later”
Hey! What am I suppose to do
If I can’t get through?
I tried dialing “9-1-1”
They said, “We can’t help you… none.”
Guess it’s nothing new
Society’s point-of-view
Operator! The Creator
Separator — wheat from chaff
Alienator — frown from laugh
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 2
G Am
Am Em
Made in the USA (Philadelphia and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
After a conversation with my son about Richard Dawkins, I pondered on the obsolescence of a Great Operator. Songs like the Black Keys’ Little Black Submarines and Pink Floyd’s Young Lust refer to a telephone operator. Will people know what they are talking about now that phone operators are obsolete? Does the same hold true for the concept of God?
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
You gave me a dictionary
At first, I found it quite contrary
Then, this song’s definition
Made me reconsider my position
Chorus
To be wide open
Look within
So vulnerable. Let you in.
Let’s enable. We’ll begin
Mary merry meaning of contrary
Is it as Ying to Yang
Or does this dictionary
Offer definitions of slang?
Chorus
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — D Em A D
A
This song was inspired when a friend, Katlyn, insisted on giving me an old dictionary.
Made in the USA (Philadelphia and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals