bookmark_borderRest Assured

Songwriting in Ambler, PA
Songwriting in Ambler, Pennsylvania

LYRICS
The mother of nature
The father of time
Eventually
Nothing is “mine”

Rest assured
It’s the nature of Mother Nature
Guaranteed with certainty
As in – For Sure!
No need to be insured
It’s your life
For as long as it can be endured

Don’t let the Grim Reaper
Cut you like a knife
Don’t be Snow White sleeper
Make spontaneity your wife

Dance through your days
Dance all your nights
Smile all the which ways
Smiles bring delights

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 2
E less D string
Am less G string

Written and recorded on Fathers Day, Sunday, June 17, 2012 in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

by Daniel Brouse

More from the album *Kiss Of Life*

bookmark_borderThe Parking Authority Song

Writing The Parking Authority Song in West Chester, PA
Writing The Parking Authority Song in West Chester, PA

LYRICS
Ya know
I hate to sit here
And, watch people
Give their money away

No, no… please not today

They’ll swallow your quarters
They’ll swallow your time
Nothing to leave our sons or daughters (behind)
Is a generational crime

Ya know
I have a fit sitting here
Watching people
Piss their money away
Oh, no, no… please not today

Getting cheated and gypped
In every which way
Nothing but bruise and slaughter
Humane? Ill equipped

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
G / A / D

Written and recorded on June 16, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania while I tried to stop people from putting quarters in the meters.

by Daniel Brouse

More from the album *Kiss Of Life*

bookmark_borderThe Phoenix Rises

Songwriting in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Songwriting in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

LYRICS
You are the link
And, here I thought you were missing
The chain links the chain links
The water ebb or flow
I’m sure you know

You are the pink
And, close enough for kissing

Just when you think
No one is listening
No one is caring
No on is wishing
You’ll be wishing
You’re there

Earth — the best planet going
Birth — let life be flowing

The Phoenix rises
The fire ever higher
Booby trap surprises
Fan the flames
You’re the wind

In the end, you just begin

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 8 (Bb)

Written and recorded on June 15, 2012 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

by Daniel Brouse

More from the album *Kiss Of Life*

bookmark_borderOle Fashion

Songwriting at Valley Forge National Park
Songwriting at Valley Forge National Park

LYRICS
I’ll have an ole fashion
Just the way I did
While I listen to ya fib

Ya said we’d be free
From sea to sea
Let it be

Strap on your spurs
Fix your bayonets
Rather the girls
Though both bring regrets

The legacy of our society
“Me, me, me!”
The legacy of our society
Breakin’ every treaty

Where the buffalo once would roam
We plowed a home
Raping the children of Mother Nature
Man, did we mature?

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 5
C / Am

Written and recorded on June 15, 2012 at the Revolutionary War memorial for Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben at Valley Forge National Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The song asks the question, “Have we done our part in securing freedom?”

by Daniel Brouse

More from the album *Kiss Of Life*

bookmark_borderThe Hag Rag

Songwriting at Valley Forge National Park
Songwriting at Valley Forge National Park

LYRICS
A day that was way, way, way….
Back when you knew what
Knock, knock on my door
There’s a tale of the enemy

Where ya gonna be when the dead come through
I swear
Where… ya gonna be when the dead come through

The Redcoats are coming
The Japs or a Gook
The beat is drumming
Come take a look

Where ya gonna be when the dead come through
Out there
Where… ya gonna be when the dead come through

As borders disappear
The fear you draw near
Will make it appear

Grab a partner
Swing her round and round
Bearded, toothless… non-the-less
You’re doin’ the Hag Rag

Grab a partner
Swing her round and round
Bearded, toothless… non-the-less
You’re doin’ the Hag Drag

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
E add G, D, Bb
E / Dy

Written and recorded on June 15, 2012 at Valley Forge National Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The song compares dancing with an ugly lady with war and paranoia.

by Daniel Brouse

More from the album *Kiss Of Life*

bookmark_borderA Question Of Humans

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

LYRICS
I’m whistling with you
I’m smiling at you
Irresistible
The feeling surrounds you
Quintessential
To be the Queen Bee

If you strive for the hive
We’ll do more than survive
We’ll thrive

For those who want to derail
Take our train from the tracks
Exhale
Relax

Less the swarm harm
Try to chill your will
Stand still
Don’t sound the alarm
After all, what is your aim? To tame?

Writing Lyrics to A Question For Humans
Writing Lyrics to A Question For Humans

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ABOUT THIS SONG
A (fingered)
Em
Em / G

Written and recorded on June 9, 2012 as an accident occurred right in front of me in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The mean has to do with a train coming off the tracks in the middle of a bee hive as compared to the human race.

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Holey Ghost*

The End

bookmark_borderRadiate

LYRICS
Though an optimist
I must admit
Some situations on Earth
Are bleak
We forgot to care
For the meek
Now, the social justification
That I did fear
Is much closer
Than just near

Radiate.
Be intimate
Transfer
With Her
Mother of the Earth

Give birth
Bring forth

Bring it down from on above
Radiate
Be intimate
Love

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 4 (Ab)
Am add G add D
D
G

Written and recorded on June 6, 2012 in Ambler, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Holey Ghost*

bookmark_borderThe American Spirit

Writing the Song The American Spirit
Writing the Song The American Spirit

LYRICS
If nothing really matters
Why even bother?
But, matter, it does
Better do your matter
Before you’re latter

No, no, no, don’t ever give up
Yeah, yeah, yeah, have faith in hope
La, la, la we can change the slope

We can glide
We can slide
We can glide
It’s all downhill
we can ride
The rising tide
We can slide
’till our asses spark
What a thrill

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ABOUT THIS SONG
C
G
C add F
Em / C / C add F

Written and recorded at Independence Mall, 5th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA on June 2, 2012.

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Prom And Aid*

bookmark_borderFolsum Prison Blues, Too

LYRICS
He don’t mind dyin’
He don’t mind lyin’
He’s a fool
He don’t mind dyin’
He don’t mind lyin’
He’s a tool

The breaknecks from Lakeside
Ought to run and hide
Even the po-po know
Dicks, Jokers and Shitheads
Now, my daddy gonna make their beds

Ya violate my daughter
Why ya ought notta

Ya ought to just give it back
If ya wanna live your life of slack
‘else ya just might get the knack
For the Folsom County blues
e.g. you lose

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Em
Am7
D
G

This is the first song in a trilogy from the album Prom And Aid. It is about the 2012 Wissahickon Prom in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where some “joker” made the mistake of victimizing my daughter. Her date tried to set things straight. When that wasn’t enough, the police brought justice.

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Prom And Aid*

bookmark_borderCloudless Vision

Songwriting at Marsh Creek State Park, Pennsylvania
Songwriting at Marsh Creek State Park, Pennsylvania

LYRICS
“Puff. Puff,” says Cumulus
As Stratus smiles down from on high

Your point-of-view
Can shift, too
To the point where new is knew
Originally, by me
Now, a collaboration as we

“Puff. Puff,” says Cumulus
As Stratus smiles down from on high
We’ve turned to us

“Puff. Puff,” says Cumulus
As Stratus smiles down from on high
Just a wisp in the sky
Traveling by

Never stalls the astral
Bringing love to all

 

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ABOUT THE SONG
C / Am
Am / Em
Am add G

Written and recorded on May 29, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is about Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Wellness

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Atlantis City*

bookmark_borderMemory-all Day

Writing Memory-all on Memorial Day, West Chester, Pennsylvania
Writing Memory-all on Memorial Day, West Chester, Pennsylvania

LYRICS
I won’t tell you no more
At any rate, you’re probably right
It’s too late
I won’t tell you
No more

It’s temperate
Inhospitable
Environment

So, of all these things you abhor
I won’t tell you
No more

For self-wealth
Memory it yourself

I ain’t your Mama
Don’t need the drama
I won’t tell you
No more
Know more

 

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ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 8 (Bb)
E / G / D

Written and recorded on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012 in west Chester, Pennsylvania at the Veterans’ Memorial. It is about remembering what is important in life without being told over and over again. “It’s Too Late!

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Atlantis City*

bookmark_borderLiving Without

Writing the Song Living Without in West Chester, PA
Writing the Song Living Without in West Chester, PA

LYRICS
Living without. Living without.
How about living without?
War? No more!
Living without

On hate and rage
Turn a new page
We’ve got God to thank
It’s blank
We can start anew
Heaven for me and you
Living without

No need to wait
Toss out the hate
No more. No more.
No more war

 

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 2 (F#)
E
Am7 add A on 1
Bm7

Written and recorded on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It’s a song inspired by changing the world.

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Atlantis City*

bookmark_borderRigamarole

Writing the Song Rigamarole
Writing the Song Rigamarole

LYRICS

What’s all the rigamarole?
Diggin’ a hole with the mole?
What’s the ruckus
Throwing humanity under the bus?

What’s all the rigamarole
Don’t ya know
The story has a morale

The door
You slam it?
Damn it!

All for all
It’s a rigamarole
It’s a rigamarole

Shake off your Rigor mortis
Build the human fortress
For us
The children of the children’s children’s

Enough immoral shenanigans
Join the rigamarole
For all

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Em / G
G /  Em
Am7 / D7

Written and recorded on May 27, 2012 in West Chester, PA.

by Daniel Brouse
More From the Album *Atlantis City*

bookmark_borderGiving Love A Chance Dance

Writing Lyics
Writing Lyics

LYRICS
How about for the last dance
We play give love a chance?

Open your heart to the darkest part
Let in a ray
Shout hooray
Get of your knees and pray
Beggin’ ya please…
Join the foray

For the last dance
Givin’ love a chance
For the last hoorah
Oh, Lord! Say jah!

Hold me tight
We’ll dance all night
Letting in a ray
Letting in the light
This is how we play
This is how we pray
The Giving Love a Chance Dance

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 6
E / C
D / E

Written and recorded on May 27, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

 

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Atlantis City*

bookmark_borderJust Dessert

LYRICS
Caught between
A pig
And, a wet blanket
Smothering me
With the terroristic drastic

Please ween me
From your dictatorship
Your narcissistic flip

The militant mean
The militant mean
You know harm
The militant: mean

The pig skin’s sheen
Doesn’t make him cleam
A big pig
Doesn’t make a big man
Just dessert
Of ham

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ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 4
Em / Em7

Written and recorded on May 25, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania as the police circled around.

by Daniel Brouse

More From the Album *Hole In The Whole*