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LYRICS
Don’t give up
Yes, you can
Rise to the top
Time and time again
We can do it
Damn the profit
Full speed ahead
There’s nothing to dread
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C D E
C D A
136 Beats Per Minute / Oldie Ballad
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
As is turns to was
And, all that jazz
Rest assured
There’s future
Alcatraz razzmatazz
Also known as
The great escape
Go ape
Agape
Instead of the Earth’s rape
Agape
Get the habitat in shape
Agape
Scrape together enough to escape
ABOUT THIS SONG
Agape — (Greek) love (especially love that is spiritual and selfless in nature)
Chords — Ab Ebm
Gb
142 Beats Per Minute / Modern Jazz
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
If the rest of the world
Is acting sad or mad
Just be glad
You’re growing old
Or, would ya rather it be said
He’s too young to be dead?
The rest of us
Dance finesse
Or, would ya rather it be said
He’s too young to be dead?
He died before his time
He died before his prime
F%^& it….
Why’d he have to kick the bucket
The rest of us
Dance finesse
Finesseness
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Em E7sus4
132 Beats Per Minute / Fast Big Band
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Open wide
For a decadent experience
Have you tried?
Rich and creamy
Oh so dreamy
You’ll shine with brilliance
Shine divine
Smile enshrine
Open wide
For a decadent experience
Brush from side to side
For improved appearance
With just enough grit
To clean you up a bit
ABOUT THIS SONG
Inspired by a Crest news story:
Crest’s new Mint Chocolate Trek toothpaste claims it “opens with a rich, creamy cocoa flavor that provides an indulgent and decadent experience.”
Proctor & Gamble, makers of Crest, call the new brand of toothpastes Be Adventurous.
Chords — D
B A G F#
100 Beats Per Minute / Dance
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Once you start to tow the line
You’ll see it’s easy to do all the time
Quite often perceived as being out of line
It depends for whom you tow the line
Radical conformity sabbatical
All the while
Towing the line
Quite often perceived as being out of line
It depends for whom you tow the line
Once you start to tow the line
You’ll see it’s easy to do all the time
Radical conformity sabbatical
While ya smile
Towing just fine
God, I’ll tow the line for all my time
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F# C#sus4 F#add9
112 Beats Per Minute / Ambient 3 extra drums
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
I thought you said we were suppose to be having fun
Then, why’s it feel like to my head… there’s a gun?
Why don’t we all just lighten up
Let the scales of justice be the measuring cup
When ya act like that nobody wants in that act
As a matter of fact, you say you’re not but you’re that
Why don’t we all just lighten up
Let the scales of justice be the measuring cup
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Em Em dim
C Em
111 Beats Per Minute / Digi Rock
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
What’s in a memory
In the long run,
Is it all just temporary
A place to store impressions
As I learn my lessons
Just for fun
Compare a memory to a dream
It would seem
Existing without existence
In your mind’s eye
I feel the experience
A place to store my impressions
Of the human sessions
Sight, sound, touch, smell and taste
That in haste could go to waste
I want to hold on
To the memory
Reality is won
I want to hold on
To the sensory
A place to store my impressions
For my succession
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Eb EbM7
Ab sus4 Ab
108 Beats Per Minute / Dance
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
On the flip-side
Of the Trip-Hop
Is a the B-side
Flat-footed cop
Just say nope
Dope of the narc of the dope
’cause once you see the reality
Through the looking-glass you’ll be
Then you’ll finally be free
It’s just a trip, hop and jump away
Be the contra-verse si and live life today
ABOUT THIS SONG
This song is a tribute to trip-hop.
Trip hop is a genre of electronic music that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. Deriving from “post”-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which contained influences of soul, funk and jazz.
Chords — Em Am Bsus4
100 Beats Per Minute / Trip-Hop
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse
Franklin’s Tower / Multiple MP3 Versions
Coversong originally made famous by The Grateful Dead
Written by Bill Kreutzmann, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter
A G D G In another times forgotten space A G D G Your eyes looked from your mother's face A G D G Wildflower seed on the sand and stone A G D G May the four winds blow you safely home A G D G Roll Away the Dew I'll tell you where the four winds dwell In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell It can ring, turn night to day It can ring like fire if you lose your way Roll Away the Dew God save the child that rings that bell May have one good ring baby, you can't tell One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused, listen to the music play Some come to laugh their past away Some come to make it just one more day Whichever way your pleasure tends If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind Roll Away the Dew In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep Like four lean hounds, the lighthouse keep Wildflower seed on the sand and wind May the four winds blow you home again Roll Away the Dew
ABOUT THIS SONG
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree
Performed by Daniel Brouse
Coversong originally made famous by The Grateful Dead
Written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by drummer Mickey Hart
B A long distance runner, what you standin' there for? B A get up get out, get out of the door B A your playin' cold music on the barroom floor B A your drowned in your laughter and dead to the core B A there's a dragon with matches that's loose in the town B A takes a whole pail of water, just to cool him down chorus B A fire, fire on the mountain B A fire, fire on the mountain B A fire, fire on the mountain B A fire, fire on the mountain almost ablaze, still you don't feel the heat it takes all you got, just to stay on the beat you say its a living, we all gotta eat but your in here alone, there's no one to compete if mercy's in business i wish for you more than just ashes when your dreams come true chorus - JAM long distance runner, what you holdin' out for caught in slow motion, in a dash for the door the flame from your stage, has now spread to the floor you gave all you had, why you want to give more the more that you give, the more it will take to the thin line beyond which, you really can't fake chorus
ABOUT THIS SONG
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree
Performed by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
You’ve got that look like you know me
I wish I could
Place your face in my memory
If I could I would
It’s a shame
But I can’t remember you name
Though I should
’cause you do everybody good
I’m sure we’ve met before
You must have opened a door
To mind expanding folklore
Where myth twines with truth
Please place your face in my space
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Ab Ab sus4
Gb Ab
110 Beats Per Minute / Funk
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree
By Daniel Brouse
In My Blood Live Music Video.mp4
LYRICS
Couldn’t wait to get down
Make the sound
In my blood,
Plus what’s around
Turn it into sound
Wash n’ over you
Like a flash flood
’till you hear a rainbow hue
Nature versus nurture
Turn a sonic future
Into hear here
Here and now
A now know flow
Here we go
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Em G C
126 Beats Per Minute / Fusion
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers, Electric Guitar
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album If A Tree….
By Daniel Brouse