bookmark_borderCitizens’ Coup d’état

The Fall of the Dollar Since Trump Took Office
The Fall of the Dollar Since Trump Took Office

LYRICS
If the cream rises to the top
And the proof is in the pudding
The cream took a drop
The pudding is overflowing
Do you think it’s true
There’s something to do
A long overdue
Citizens’ coup

The hater and the traitor
Has risen to the top
The mental masturbator
Is our top cop
[Chorus: Citizens’ Coup]

If the fox is in the henhouse
The wolf wearing sheep’s clothes
The pig in the Whitehouse
The nation in slop’s throws
[Chorus: Citizens’ Coup]

Citizens coup
Citizen’s you

Citizens’ Coup.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: C G D / G C D G
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

Vocals, Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderInstant Instigator

Mr. Malena Flips The Bird
Mr. Malena Flips The Bird

LYRICS
Pointing the finger at the instigator
Which instigator is greater
Which impact left the greater crater?
Can’t you see
When you point 1 at me
3 point to thee
The instigator agitator
To say the very least
You’re the destroyer of peace
You’re claim to fame is shame
The peace annihilator
The semen of the demon
The scourge of Babylon
The lies go on and on
The freedom devastator

Instant Instigator.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by Anthony Marion (Penn’s Table Restaurant) and Mr. and Mrs. Malena (Malena’s Vintage Boutique).

Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em A7 / D6 A7 Em (slide to F# and A7 to Em walkdown)
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderEarth Mover

LYRICS
Did you ever wake up too early in the morning
Wondering what is happening
Did someone move the Earth
Or God give birth?
Wonder what is happening…
Or be what is happening?
No, I am not stymied
No, know I am
No, know I’m me’d
Won’t concede
Too the darkside
Ride to the lightside
Left the wrong side
Ride with the rightside
Begin being
Begin being the happening
Don’t wait for the Earth to shake
Wake!

Earth Mover.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: Em Em+f#+d Em+f# Esus4 / Em7 Esus4 / Ebm Em FM7
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Damn Damage

LYRICS
The damn damage
At any age
A clean page
From damn damage
Older, wiser
The sage
Life’s miser
Engage
Helping the blind to see
To be all you can be
Helping the lame to walk
The same for the mute to talk
To be all we can be
Damn damage free
Trying to cure what ails you
Trying to aid what fails you
Trying to do what we can do
Damage to zero
Trying the postponement of dying
A moment meant for living
Long as I”m living…
Going to keep on trying

The Damn Damage.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em Bm / E A E A B7 / F G C
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWaiting Room

LYRICS
But, but, but… but…
I don’t need to wait for room
If, and, and but
There’s plenty of room waiting
Not waiting for gloom and doom
There’s no room for debating
Navigating anticipating
In the waiting room
Time to move along
Compose a song
Write what is right
In the wellness fight
Don’t let the Reaper loom
There’s no room for negotiation
In the waiting room
Not ready for a tomb
Plenty of life left in sight
Gaining spiritual insight
In the waiting room

Waiting Room.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A G A7 / C A / C A G / Ab A Bb
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCog

LYRICS
In the fears of the gears
The head hog of the cog
Lost a tooth
Nevermore to tell the truth
The clock made a face
As it lost track of time
Cron’s eternal disgrace
There’s no reason nor rhyme
Nevertheless
Based on man’s freewill
Time stands still
Much to the distress of progress
Captain, check the log
We’ve lost a cog
Monkey wrench in the works
Now the works won’t work
Humanity’s in a fog
Raised by a toothless cog

Cog (Featuring Penn’s Table Restaurant and Malena’s Vintage Boutique.mp4

Cog.mp3

Cog (Instrumental).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em / C Dm Em / Em C Em
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. This song was inspired by two business owners, Penn’s Table Restaurant and Malena’s Vintage Boutique.

Two businesses (Penn’s Table Restaurant and Malena’s Vintage Boutique) along with the West Chester Business Improvement District (BID) appear to be behind the illegal passing of the unconstitutional law. Concerned citizens are boycotting these establishments.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderGoing Nuclear

Going Nuclear.mp3

LYRICS
“What are you waiting for?”
1,2,3,4…
For four minutes or more
“What I’ve been waiting for”
Let me make it clear
… going nuclear
(I’d rather not be here)
Radiate the foe
A cancer growth must go
When you’ve cut out his heart
Yet, he will not depart
I fear…
You’ve got to go nuclear
“What are you waiting for?”
22,23,24…
For 24 minutes or more
“What I’ve been waiting for”
Anticipate the end of the wait
Evacuate
Clear of nuclear
“What are you waiting for?”
Before more hours
The moment’s ours
“What I’ve been waiting for”
Clear of nuclear
“What I’ve been waiting for”

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E’s / E A / G A E
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Songs written in the doctors’ waiting rooms. This one was written in the Chester County Hospital’s Radiology waiting room for a patient undergoing cancer treatment
From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFound Foundation

LYRICS
We’ve found foundation
A movement based on solid rock
Taking stock in a phonic nation
We’ve found “ation”
Motivation. Stimulation. Activation.
Found foundation
Tap your footers
See your saws jig
Blocks of solid rock
We’ve found foundation
The notion of a movement
A motion for a foundation
Gyration. Vibration. Sensation
We’ve found “ation”
Found foudnation
Vocalization. Instrumentation. Realization.
Visualization. Penetration. Actualization.
Salvation. Our soul-ation.

Found Foundation.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E Esus4 / Am C E / E Am/E / Em CM7
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Songs written in the doctors’ waiting rooms — this one was inspired by a “foundation” poster on the wall.
From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!

by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Market Street Stroll

Market and High Streets, West Chester, PA
LYRICS
Count the cadence
Mark the beat
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
You might catch some heat
If you’re not discrete
Share your glow in the flow
They’ll never know
Walk the walk
Rock the roll
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
Ohhh there’s so much
To enjoy the touch
Incorporate the scene
Into your dream
I suspect when you intersect with High
You won’t walk right by
Stop by, say High? and give it a try
In the thick of the music

The Market Street Stroll (Video).mp4

The Market Street Stroll.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar, Piano

A song about the rhythm of the street in downtown West Chester. Written at the corner of Market and High Streets in Chester County, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderBlown Up

LYRICS
I don’t know where you are
Don’t let the wind blow you too far
… too far
… trip bizarre
Remember Dorthy
Before her ruby shoes
She broke free from Kansas’ shores
… Kansas’ sures
… assures
Maybe you should drop your sails
That North wind sure wails
No blown off course remorse
Through the straight and narrow
… into tomorrow
Poor Dorothy
Said “there is no place like home”
Never will she see
Reality — home is where you roam

Blown Away.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: G D / G C D
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderMean’s Extreme

mean: unkind, spiteful, or unfair
mean: an average; a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes
mean: intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify

A song about humanity and extreme weather events.

LYRICS
Hurricane
Weather’s vain
Insane hurricane
Whether vane
Spinnin’ round
As the weather’s falling down
Reigning down
Reigning rain
Too soon typhoon
Hurricane… weather’s fain
Monsoon too soon
Reigning down
Whether blown
Seems the seams
Mean’s extremes

Mean’s Extreme (Instrumental).mp3

Mean’s Extreme.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C F / F7 Cm
Rhythm: 88 BPM 8 Beat Soft
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWe Can Do This!

We Can Do This! .mp3

LYRICS
Afraid if you do
Afraid if you don’t
Afraid made it so you won’t
At the very least, you don’t
I see in your eyes
You’re paralyzed
“Maybe it’s just as well”
’cause what if you fell?
After all, if you fall
Well… get back up and keep your eye on the ball
Just get backup after all
I can’t do this
I can’t do that
No! “Can’t” is not where it’s at
I see in your eyes
You’re paralyzed
Believe me I can tell
It’s not just as well
We’ve entered the age
Of must muster the courage

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G A E / E G E / E A B7 E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBeating Like A Drum

Beating Like A Drum.mp3

LYRICS
I feel something growing
From within your heart
I hear something growing
The pulse you impart
Like a royal symphony
You’re part is the timpani
The spine of our time
The backbone in the zone
You are the start
… the finale
You are the heart
The tempo… you know…
That moves me
You hold us together
Separating us from never
The ever that would never happen
If you didn’t begin showing
What I felt growing
Within
You heart
The pulse you start

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em F#m Bm
Rhythm: 72 BPM Country Ballad with Symphony Drum Kit plus Shufflin’ Rock/Pop MiniNova and Breathing on a Loop Pedal
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCome Out

LYRICS
Haven’t we met before
Weren’t you coming out the door
I recognize your face
Coming out of that place
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Like a bug meeting windshield
Your insides revealed
What are you made of….
Any of it love
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Like a bug meeting windscreen
When your insides are seen
Your innards… what you ate
Full of hate?
Are you full of hate
Appreciate the love

Have we met before
Will your memory endure
What are you made of….
Any of it love
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Come Out.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by an article from Science Magazine and the songs Fly On The Windshield and Carpet Crawlers by Genesis.

From the Science article Where have all the insects gone?
12 May 2017
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6338/576.full

Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany. Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. “I’m a very data-driven person,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon. “But it is a visceral reaction when you realize you don’t see that mess anymore.”

Neonicotinoid pesticides, already implicated in the widespread crash of bee populations, are a prime suspect.

Paying attention to what E. O. Wilson calls “the little things that run the world” is worthwhile, Sorg says. “We won’t exterminate all insects. That’s nonsense. Vertebrates would die out first. But we can cause massive damage to biodiversity—damage that harms us.”

Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Bm C Em Esus
Rhythm: 120 BPM 6/8 Rock
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Electric Guitar Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFly High

LYRICS
Though the chances seem slim
Climb out on a limb
You’ve got to try
Before you fly
The songbird sings
Flapping of the wings
You’ve got to try
Before you fly
Will you ever know
If you don’t give ‘er a go
Be a liver that’s a giver
Then you’ll know
A liver of life
A giver of love
Believer in dreams
Creator of scenes
An angel sings
You’ve got your wings
You’ve got to try
Before you fly

Fly High.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F Am / C C7 / C E Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Synth-strings

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse