bookmark_borderBlack Magic

Black Magic.mp3

LYRICS
That would be tragic
If you fell victim to black magic

“From there I shall come to judge the quick…
And, the dead.”

Lively up yourself
Don’t be no dread

That would be tragic
If you fell victim to black magic

For you mental health
Don’t cast a spell on yourself

That would be tragic
If you fell victim to black magic

You are my sunshine
The only sunshine
Bring love and feeling fine

That would be tragic
If you fell victim to black magic

Abracadabra the white magic
Cure the ill… heal the sick

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — B EM7aug EbmM7

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

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

bookmark_borderAround

LYRICS
Did you know
God’s all around
Did you know
God’s easily found
Did you know
God does abound

Right before your eyes
You can come to realize
God’s all around

God can be found all around
Did you know
Are you aware
God is everywhere
Did you want to feel an inner peace
An outer peace
Do you want to share everything
Less the dread
(God’s not dead!)

God’s all around
Wanting to be found

Don’t ever let it be said
That you went to bed
Without giving the proper kudos
About the Good News

If you want to see
If you want to be

She’ll be with me
She’ll be with you, too
’cause She’s in plain view
She doesn’t want to hide
She doesn’t want anywhere near the darkside

God’s everywhere
If you declare
God will be there
If you justify
If you testify
I saw Her with my eye

God is here
God is now
No need for “somehow”

Around.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Cm F C6 F#dim

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

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

bookmark_borderCan Do

LYRICS
If you are living in fear
Thinking the end is near
Let it be forgot
’cause it’s not
But, can’t you see the tragedy
Living in slow, lingering misery

There could come the day when you pray
The End is near
But, for now there’s nothing to fear

So, if we can steer clear
We can see through tragedy
We’ve got to see it
We’ve got to do it
Follow through
Me and you… let’s do!

We can make every day a little brighter
We can make love a little tighter
We can do it if we choose
I don’t think anyone would rather lose?

Can Do.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Am G
C Am

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

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

bookmark_borderRise!

Rise! .mp3

 

LYRICS
When you lookout, lookout, lookout
From behind your eyes
Is it any… surprise?!?!

Got to get up, get up, get up
And, rise

When you stand up, stand up, stand up
For what you believe
You will bring… relief
Surmise — rise!

Got to get up, get up, get up
And, rise

When you speak out, speak out, speak out
About injustice
You raise consciousness
A prize for those that rise

Got to get up, get up, get up
And, rise

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 4
Am E

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

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

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

bookmark_borderOwn Worst Enemy

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

bookmark_borderWaiting With Anticipation

LYRICS
Waiting with baited breath
We try to narrow the width… the breadth
We’re waiting in anticipation

Time and space alienation
As we close the gap
Even if it’s required to run the extra lap
You know that you can break through
You know it’s something you can do
And, I’m waiting with anticipation

The strangulation of time
Time strangulation
Waiting in anticipation
It’s growing shorter
It’s almost here
You know you can see your way clear
See your way clear
Waiting… not for long
Come on, sing along… waiting with anticipation

You’re the one
When the waiting is done
You’re the winner

Waiting With Anticipation 2.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em Em7 Em add 9

Written and recorded on January 7, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderUndone

LYRICS
There once was a man that thought he’d won
But, in the end… he became undone

[car crash]

There once was a man who thought he’d won
But, in the end… he became undone

Undone Soundcheck.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG

Written and recorded on January 6, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBlack And White

Guitar
Writing the song Black And White

LYRICS
You know you took it too far
Right when you crossed the line
From my point-of-view — bizarre

No, it wasn’t the first time
It wasn’t the second time
It wasn’t even 3 strikes you’re out

Wrong and right
Is black and white

You don’t need a moral compass
To prove you’re an ass
This was no seventh inning stretch
You just caused a total train wreck

Black And White.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — E add high G, add low G
E A G E
B

Written and recorded on January 6, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

VIDEO — How to Play the Guitar Part

bookmark_borderItching Energy

Writing the Song *Itching Energy*
Writing the Song *Itching Energy*

Itching Energy.mp3

LYRICS
There’s something that’s in me
An itching energy
That’s busting, busting, busting out to be

A golden synergy

Like electricity

There’s something that’s in me
An itching energy
That’s busting, busting, busting out to be

Praise God for eternity… or, at least relativity?

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 2
E E9 E7 Esus4 etc
G A E

Written and recorded on January 5, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Drums, Guitar

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

VIDEO — How to Play the Guitar Part

bookmark_borderLordess Of Destruction

Lordess Of Destruction Part 3.mp3

LYRICS
Do you thirst to see blood?
Do you like to see people dragged through the mud?
Lordess Of Darkness
I suppose you’re your own curse

You weren’t quite fortunate enough
To be fetched by a hearse
You’re just a living zombie
A shell of a body
Foul
You’ve got no soul
You’re the Lordess Of Darkness
I suppose you’re your own curse

Lordess Of Darkness

With all your previous lives
You’d think you’d realize
Lordess Of Darkness
I suppose you’re your own curse

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Am A sus4

Written and recorded on January 4, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. It is a song about how some females abuse the justice system because of the courts’ discrimination against men.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderElixir

Korg Nano Keyboard
Korg Nano Keyboard

Elixir (Keys-Roads-Trip-E-Piano).mid

LYRICS
If you’re feeling down and out
Let music show you what She’s about
Music can cure your soul

If your healing from life’s toll
Share the feeling with a shout
Singing can cure your soul

(May the music sooth your soul)

Elixir.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — C CM7 C C add9 C F

Written and recorded on January 4 and 5, 2013 in Ambler, Montgomery County and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Korg Nano Key

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHummina Hummina Hummina

LYRICS
Hummina hummina hummina
If someone comes up to you on the street
And, tries to give you some discrete… or less than discrete
Tries to give a piece concrete
Evidence
Which is summed up with the hummina hummina hummina
My suggestion
Run
Or, if you want to have some fun
Go ahead and engage
Ask about rosemary and sage

If you are going to rise and ride the tide
You don’t want to feel like you’re being swept away
You want to feel like you have some kind-of control over the day
No hummina hummina hummina along the way
Trying not to say hummina hummina hummina

If you are more interested in knowing the great unknown
Please let your presence be known

Hummina, Hummina, Hummina.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — C Cm Baug Csus4

Written and recorded on January 3, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderGreat Unknown

The Great Unknown.mp3

Writing the song The Great Unknown
Writing the song The Great Unknown

LYRICS
The Great Unknown x2
There’s much to learn
About the great unknown
The Great Unknown x2
The more that we see
The less great it will be

If you really want to set yourself free
Get knowing… it’s sheer ecstasy

The Great Unknown x2
Increasing comprehension
In the great unknown

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G less G add F add Bb add Eb
G

Written and recorded on January 3, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. It is the theme song ditty jingle for the album of the same name.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

How To Play The Guitar:

bookmark_borderWhat Is This Song About?

LYRICS
Dag-nab-it! Why can’t you just remember what this song is about?
I did now don’t

Why can’t you just remember what this song is about?

I was just getting ready to lay down the track
When my stomach had this sort-of weird attack
By the time I got back
My memory was at a lack

That’s why I can’t remember what this song is about
I did now I don’t

It was right there
On the tip-of-my-tongue
I swear
It was right there

Why can’t I remember what this song is about
I did… now, don’t

What Is This Song About.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Eb Gb Bbm

Written and recorded on January 2, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Comings And Goings

LYRICS
Comings and goings
The comings and goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

That you’re aware of everything
That you’re there
That you’re in everything
The comings and the goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

You are comforting
In all that you bring
You’re comforting
The comings and the goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

That when I sing of things you bring
You bring to be me a special thing
The comings and the goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

They say you’re with us everywhere

There’s one thing I hope I can convey
There’s one thing I’d convey if I may
There’s only the one thing
That can take you from here
To everywhere
That can take you from here
So you’re everywhere

And, that would be
God Almighty
Then, you can see
To eternity

Your being can be in everywhere

Comings And Goings.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G D7sus4 Bdim C

Written and recorded on January 1, 2013 (New Year’s Day) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. “The comings and goings” is a phrase that means the movements of people arriving at places and leaving places.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse