Tag: Life After Life

bookmark_borderQuick Logic

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LYRICS
IF you say “there’s no way out!”
How did we ever get in?
If you say “there’s know way out!”
Where did we ever get in?
Sometimes the air is thick
With an error of logic
Think quick!

If you say “there’s no new way”
How did we ever get on?
If you say “there’s no knew way”
How did we get it on?
Sometimes the air is thick
With an error of logic
Think quick!

If you say “care for no one”
How did we ever get known?
If you say “don’t care no, none”
Victory is never won/one
Sometimes the air is thick
With an error of logic
Think quick!

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Em F#m / C D Em; 183 BPM Hard Rock
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderGifted

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LYRICS
Till the wind stops blowing
Till the leaves stop falling
There’s growing in knowing
The future is coming
The present of loving the present
Resident of a birth on Earth

Till the sun stops shinning
Till the moon stops rising
There’s growing in knowing
The future is coming
The present of loving the present
Resident of a birth on Earth

Till the world stops spinning
Till the sky stops crying
There’s growing in knowing
The future is coming
The present of livin’ in the present
Resident of a birth on Earth

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Ambient / Progressive Folk
Chords: Am Em / Em Eb D / D C / Em Am
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Classical Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderTruth Tooth

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LYRICS
I’m wondering
Can we keep wondering
All of those
Will expose
We’ll expose
The truth
Eye/I tooth
Wisdom tooth
Your belief
Like pulling teeth
Why live in grief
Can’t you see
You can be
Uplifting
Dreams drifting

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Em Am G Em; 100 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderPriorities

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LYRICS
Say what or it gives
Or nobody lives
Hard to keep priorities straight
When everything is running late
Too late to wait
(Is it too late to wait?)
To give or to take
The bed that we make
Consider the date
Are you doing great?
Surely peace arrives
Saving all our lives

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: g g f# f e / Em / C D Em; 152 BPM 8-Beat
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderPut To Bed

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LYRICS
Can we meet face-to-face
Has the brain gone insane
Or is the notion of meathead
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

Can our human rights embrace
And hatred start to wane
Everything we said
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

Can we finally get a taste
Of everything we waste
The riot act read
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

Can we really get some space
To enjoy the human race
Before we’re dead
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: G Em / C D G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderLivin’ in Heaven

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LYRICS
Should come as no surprise
Starting to realize
Cut down to size
The devil in the detail
Sold my soul retail
“My way or the highway”?
What a load…
It’s the low road
The high way we foresee
Come quickly
Wrestle me
At the crossroads
Warts of toads
Eyes of newts
I’s of “new it”‘s
Cast the spell
Self-imposed hell
(or)
Livin’ in heaven

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Dm E G; 150 BPM Big Band Boogie
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderGetting Old

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LYRICS
I don’t know where the times went
Our youth and innocence spent
Mother Goose is cooked
Bother is overlooked
Turn the page on age

If I can be so bold
Growing old is getting old
Mother Goose is cooked
Bother is overlooked
Turn the page on age

Sunrise in the east set in the west
Forgetting your lover is probably best
Move on to the next get on with the rest

I don’t know why your dreams ran dry
Never too late to give ‘er a try
Mother Goose on the loose
Wiggle out of your noose
Turn the page on age

Imagine you learn how to pretend
Sign, seal and then you send
Mother Goose on the loose
Wiggle out of your noose
Turn the page on age

Sunrise in the east set in the west
Forget her is likely best
Get on with the rest

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F Bb / C7 Bb F; 128 BPM Hoedown
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderProfess

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LYRICS
The wicked get no rest
The crooked sins ingest
Bring angels! Think it’s best
You profess — the word is yes

Find evil’s creeping in
The shadow is hoverin’
Bring angels! Think it’s best
I profess — the word is yes

The bad, bad ole boys
Gun for fun deadly toys
Bring angels! Think it’s best
We profess — the word is yes

Black widow venomous
Enough to kill all of us
Bring angels! Think it’s best
Us profess — the word is yes

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E G A / G A / A G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderFire Alarm

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LYRICS
If we litter the world
With our missiles and bombs
Bound to set off the fire alarm

Seems to be no reason or rhyme
Why we try to rule time

It’s a fire…
A fire…
A fire alarm

When we trash the world
We build our own tombs
Bound to set off a karmic storm

Fire Alarm.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — A G A
D A
Em A

Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLive Or Die

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LYRICS
Girl smiles… gives me two thumbs-up
My mind went roamin’ back to the Christians and Romans

Everyone please raise your cup
She gave me two thumbs-up
Elated I get to live
I’ve so much more to give

I’m not lying
For a moment I feared —
Food for the lion

Despite trying
Fear that they would jeer
End up dying

But, she smiled and gave me two thumbs-up
So, everyone please raise your cup
A toast to being alive
The most of being above
Every day above ground
There’s joy to be found

Live Or Die.mp4

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 3
D6 Am(-C) Em
B

This song was inspired while I was writing at Everhart Park. A young girl came up to me, smiled and gave me two thumbs-up.

Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTime Will Tell

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LYRICS
Hope the youth are doing well
Are the rest damned to hell?
Only time will tell

We poison their well
With products we sell
Bring on a thick sick spell

Chorus

Discontent we quell
With cracked liberty bell
Until freedom fell

Time Will Tell.mp4

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C D E
E (-G# +C)

Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderNo Fearing God Zone

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Songwriting in West Chester, PA
Songwriting in West Chester, PA

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

bookmark_borderDreamster

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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

Dreamster.mp3

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

bookmark_borderResisting Arrest

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Wrongful Arrest at the Liberty Bell
Wrongful Arrest at the Liberty Bell

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

Resisting Arrest.mp3

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

bookmark_borderSee Ya In Syria?

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Child Casualties Caused by Syria Gas Attack
Child Casualties Caused by Syria Gas Attack

LYRICS
Aghast! Shame shelling with a gas
Kill all children by chemical

Guess I won’t see ya
In Syria
Seriously a tragedy in Syria

Seems there’s no regime
Any less mean
World watches in error
The reign of terror

Guess I won’t see ya
In Syria
Seriously a tragedy in Syria

Bombarding babies like Barbarians
Severity to civility… no humanitarians

Guess I won’t see ya
In Syria
Seriously a tragedy in Syria

A, B, C, D… it’s killing me
Baa, baa black creep… cause to weep
Twinkle, twinkle little star… hopes dashed… helps so far

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C G Am G
Em C

A song inspired by bombing of children with chemical weapons in Syria..

Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Life After Life
By Daniel Brouse