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

Lyrics to the Song Rigamarole .mp4

How to Play Guitar to the Song Rigamarole  .mp4

Guitar to the Song Rigamarole .mp4

pictures

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

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

by Daniel Brouse
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bookmark_borderThe Graduate

Writing the Song *Graduate* by Daniel Brouse

LYRICS
The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit
The graduate
Rung by rung
The world’s stage
Your skit

The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit

The ruler of time
Measures your age
The impact you make
Whether you’re a hit

The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit

The ruler of time
Deems you — sage
The more you create
The brighter you lit
The graduate
Moving up the ladder a bit

ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 5
Play Em Am7 D
Written at Virginia Tech on graduation day 2012… as I watched people in cap and gown getting down.

bookmark_borderAfterbirth

LYRICS
The most I’ve ever seen Spring
Look like fall
When birth is death
It can’t be good at all

The perplexing thing
We can’t crawl
Let alone baby steps

As we clone and postpone
Rippin’ our lungs out
With ozone

While we raged
God wept
Our conscious slept
We’re the ones… that should have been caged

About the Song *Afterbirth* (.MP4 Video)
How to Play Guitar to *Afterbirth* (.MP4 Video)

Pictures

ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 6
Play chords as if:
C / Em
C add Db
C / Em / Am

Written on April 29, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The song was motivated by the color of the landscape. Instead of the trees looking like they were coming to life in the springtime, they appeared to be dying as if it were fall.

More Information on the Dying Trees and Forest Death

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by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderVerge Of Violence

LYRICS
You! Yes, you.
You’re on the verge of…
[And, I’m realizing
Your victimizing
Puts all on the verge…
We’re on the fringe of violence

Looks like I’ll have to pass you by (sigh!)

Sirens screaming
Distraction leaning
Toward anarchy
A cryin’ shame
We’re to blame
For not takin’ care of our own
Opportunity blown
We crush the lush
Then, try n’ hush
The harm…
Reason for alarm

On The Virge Of Violence (.MP3 Free Music Download or Stream)

ABOUT
Written and recorded in April 2012
The original idea came from feeling hatred from another as I watched them pass by in West Chester, PA. The more intelligent part was inspired from feeling love on the streets of Ambler, PA. The one line about taking care of our own is a protest to a Bruce Springsteen… because, we ain’t done a very good job of taking care of humans, have we?

chords
E / Am less C
E / A / D

by Daniel Brouse

http://ygraine.membrane.com/daniel-brouse/

bookmark_borderBring The Love Along

Bringing The Love Along (Free .MP3 Music Download)

LYRICS
I’ve been sleeping with Mother Nature
In a state all natural
She keeps asking questions…
… with answers unsure

She wants to know
When I go…
… to sleep with Her for eternity
What I think I can bring

So, I’ve been coming to some realizations
“You can’t take it with you”
I ask, “What about money, jewels and land?”
She says, “Don’t you understand?
That’s the thing…
You can’t take it with you”

Then, she snuggled up and whispered in my ear,
“There is one thing you can take from here.
You can bring the love you create
To make music beyond Heaven’s Gate

The beauty of our new reality
Bring along the love

Bringing the love along for song

HOW TO PLAY
Em add A
Then lift each finger one at a time
Em add A / E

by Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderThe Song And Dance Cureall

LYRICS
Major Tom,
What went wrong?
Did you song
Get eatin’ by the machine?

No need to punish your ma
Do you know what I mean?
Bring out your do ra me fa
Chances are you’ll go far
Come clean from the obscene
Dance with a star
You know?
Shakin’ like tremolo
Moving in stereo
(Life’s the same
It’s inside of you
It’s all about you
It’s within and without)

Life’s the same
If you’re lame
Life will never be the same
Now, I know the game
Been moved by stereo
Welcome — The New Beauty Machine.
Welcome. Now, we’re the machine

Song And Dance Cureall .MP3

A song inspired by David Bowie, Pink Floyd and The Cars.
Em / C / Am

by Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderLove Gets the Best of Me

by Daniel Brouse

Humans
Create fate
Humans
Create dates

Human’s fate
Set their date

At any rate
There’s no debate
Our state…
Irate

We’ve gone mad
Off our rocker
All more than a tad
Beyond rational

Create hate?
Participate
Via voyeur
Then begin
The citizen
If we fall folly
To our
Un-natural nation

The gravity
Of no passivity
Leaves no pity

Create hate?
Participate
Via voyeur

Or, didn’t we know
Or, didn’t we NO

For us it is
A dismal prognosis

DOA RIP

Pray love gets the best of me.

Love Gets the Best of Me .MP3 (free music download)

bookmark_borderDang, She’s Gone Commando

by Daniel Brouse on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 9:52pm

Dm
Dm Dm7 / Csus9
Am / G / Dm

Uhgh oh,
Things got really peculiar
Once I got to know her
I started to see
Undergarments
Hanging from a tree

Oh, yeah
Quite odd
Gone commando

Another scene, if ya know what I mean

Dear Doe,

Dang! She’s gone commando.

Sincerely,
John Dear

[File under Dear, John / Letter]

Oh, yeah
Quite odd
Gone commando

Another scene, if ya know what I mean

bookmark_borderBottoms Up

Music And Lyrics

E
E / D / A / E

If the whole goal
Is to be on top
Then, it all depends
On where the top is…
My bottom
Could be
Your lid

If the whole goal
Is to try to stop
Then, it all depends
On having a heart…

My goal
Could be
Your start
Sometimes
It’s hard
To tell apart

by Daniel Brouse on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 7:18pm