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LYRICS
Is that your call
It’s off the wall
Have you given any consideration at all?
Really? Really your call?
You’re large. They’re small.
Have you given any consideration at all?
Consider the total
Will your freewill
And, be giving some consideration to all
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 5
C Em
D6 Aadd9 Em
Made in the USA (Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
All we owe, all we owe, we owe to her
All we owe, all we owe, we owe to her
We’re off to see the Wizard
The Wizard Of Oz
Unless there is some sort of legal clause
All we owe, all we owe, we owe to her
All we owe, all we owe, we owe to her
If your life’s in debt
It’s a sure bet
The Wicked Witch will make you squirm and twitch
All we owe, all we owe, we owe to her
All we owe, all we owe, we owe to her
Dorothy, you can bet your ass
This ain’t kansas
No more, no more, no more
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — E / E-E-G# / E-G#
G D A E
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
This is a test. It’s a protest test.
For the next 2 minutes and 32 seconds…
This station will conduct a protest test on the nation
This is a protest song
And, it won’t take you long
To realize… it’s a protest song
I must confess
This… is a protest song
When you’re wrong, you’re wrong
Now, it’s a protest song
Come on! Sing along!
It’s a protest song
Soon we’ll be knowing
Knowing as we’re growing
Flowing with the protest song
This is only a test
In the event of a real emergency, check your Constitution
Protest Songwriting — Freedom of Speech in West Chester, PA.mp4
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 2
E A
E A D A E
This is another song inspired by a police officer that stopped us from playing music on the courthouse steps. Ironically, she couldn’t warn us about a noise violation because the traffic was too loud.
Someone wrote into the YouTube channel and asked: “What do bongos have to do with freedom of speech?”
The answer:
From the First Amendment Center’s “A Teachers Guide to Freedom Sings” —
“This teacher’s guide to music censorship over the past 50 years is intended to illustrate to students that the First Amendment doesn’t just protect the speech of the press and of politicians. It also protects music, dance, theater, poetry and film. In fact, it protects all creative expression that gives life flavor.”
Example from National Paralegal College —
“A number of prominent musicians decide to get together and perform a song which is clearly meant to convey their lack of support for a military action currently underway. The performance will be afforded the protection of the First Amendment.”
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
As Fall falls upon us
We start to reminisce
Thinking past the present
To the things we miss
Looking back
We’ve been acting like cavemen
As a matter of fact
Worse… Barbarians
As Spring springs up on us
Thoughts start to surface
Thinking beyond the present
To things we won’t miss
Looking ahead
In my head, there’s a vision
Without tread
On our Constitution
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am Dm
G Am C Am
This song was inspired by a police officer that stopped us from playing music on the courthouse steps. Ironically, she couldn’t warn us about a noise violation because the traffic was too loud.
Someone wrote into the YouTube channel and asked: “What do bongos have to do with freedom of speech?”
The answer:
From the First Amendment Center’s “A Teachers Guide to Freedom Sings” —
“This teacher’s guide to music censorship over the past 50 years is intended to illustrate to students that the First Amendment doesn’t just protect the speech of the press and of politicians. It also protects music, dance, theater, poetry and film. In fact, it protects all creative expression that gives life flavor.”
Example from National Paralegal College —
“A number of prominent musicians decide to get together and perform a song which is clearly meant to convey their lack of support for a military action currently underway. The performance will be afforded the protection of the First Amendment.”
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Do you think this is
When you think this is
If you think this is
Have you heard of show biz?
Can you feel it coming
You know you feel it coming
Do you look within
If you feel it coming
You know you feel it coming
What are we doing?
Beware of “awes” behind the curtain
For certain, if there’s one thing certain
There’s no onw no where wanting hurtin’
Forget the rest. Wink. Smile. Flirtin’….
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am Esus Am7
C
Made in the USA (Lake Wynonah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
What makes you so certain
That we’re apt to adapt
Our evolving motion
Could very well snap
Still we forget nature is fragile
We regret we mature… yet gullible
Forgot to think all we extinct
Jack broke his crown… just ask Jill
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 1
D A7 Em
B
This song was inspired by a conversation I had with my son about global warming, Richard Dawkins and human’s ability to adapt / evolve.
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
These are some really strange days
Whether we messed-up the weather
In oh so many ways
It’s making me feel a bit see (sea) sick
Hard to believe it’s hard to breath
The air’s getting so thick
Strange how these are such strange days
Could you please help me… push RTZ (return to zero)
Phase us out of this complacent phase
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C CM7
Am Em
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
A rat in a maze
A cat in a cage
Not hard to amaze
So easily enrage
Just like a monkey pushing a button
Chain-gang bustin’ rock by the ton
Grooming each others fleece for fleas
Amazing we get anything done
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — A7 D6
G
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
What is our solution
To the saline solution
Can you see
We’ve left the sea
In a terrestrial evolution
Hear we’re filling the ocean
With our own pollution
Can you see
We’re killing the sea
In a tribal revolution
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — G Em
Am D G
This song was inspired by a trip to the Shore with my son. It got me thinking that the human body is mostly salt water. I fail to see how we can pollute the sea.
Made in the USA (Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Standing in the ocean
Watching the tide roll out
I start to thinking
My feet are sinking
I begin figgerin’
What life’s about
Standing in the ocean
Watching the tide roll in
As I get a notion
My body’s in motion
The spirit’s en route
Life’s precious… no doubt
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 3
A C
E A
Made in the USA (Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Don’t blink. Don’t think.
Do wink. No kink.
If you read the signs and obey
You might be headed the wrong way
Don’t always believe what they say
Or from the path you may stray
Ding-dong. Clock’s gong.
Time slide in stride
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am D
Am D G Am
This song was motivated by people’s t-shirts.
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, PA, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel
LYRICS
The scent of salt water
Couldn’t get much better
The cool ocean breeze
You can do as you please
The girls are so cute
In their swimming suit
Mankind’s man kind
Pleasures the mind
Looking so skinny
In a tiny bikini
Wholesome and fresh
Pleasures of the flesh
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — D slide to 4th fret, slide to 5th fret
D A E
A E
Made in the USA (Ocean City, New Jersey, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel
LYRICS
If you say, “I’m sick of this.”
Don’t want to hear your vinegar and piss
The way things are going
Let’s hope we keep growing
Sooner or later we’ll get in to knowing
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 4
Em Am
D6
This song was inspired by the Alt-J soundcheck for the summer block party concert. Instead of saying, “Testing 1,2,3”, he complained.
Made in the USA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
What if the Earth is a spaceship
Full of illegal aliens seeking some asylum
And on the stormy seas (sees) overturn… flip
Will there be a rescue? Will there be refuge?
Will we be taken in? Or will they refuse?
Chorus
When you know you’re feeling like Snowden
There’s absolutely no where to go… then,
You realize your relative size
A sheep in sheep’s clothes. No lies. No guise.
What if you were fleeing a brutal rule
Praying for a Christmas past Christmas Island
Instead a new guinea pig in (Papua) New Guinea
Please tell me who really is the fool
Treat everyone as enemy not as friend?
What is your motive? Fear, control or pinch a penny?
Chorus
The most sought after by the Central Intelligence Agency
Please, oh, please take me to your leaders
For if there is intelligent life here, I’ve yet to see
Appears the hypocrites are all traitors
Trying to prevent all that should be
Turning our futures into laters
Chorus
ABOUT THIS SONG
This song was inspired by the news of the day:
US officials fume over Russia granting asylum to Snowden | Fox News
The White House and U.S. lawmakers fumed Thursday after NSA leaker Edward Snowden entered Russia on temporary refugee status….
Edward Snowden wakes up to life in Russia – CBS News
Ex-NSA leaker is now officially a refugee being protected by Russia, but he won’t exactly be enjoying the freedom he previously knew.
Russia Grants NSA Leaker Snowden Asylum; Not Heading To Latin America
Snowden has received offers of asylum from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, but the logistics of reaching any of those countries are ….
PNG opposition mounts legal challenge as first asylum seekers land | Brisbane Times
Papua New Guinea’s opposition has resurrected a constitutional challenge to Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island as the first group of asylum seekers arrive to experience Labor’s tough resettlement policy. The 40 mainly Iranian and Afghan single men were flown from Christmas Island late on Wednesday and touched down on Manus Island on Thursday morning.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Refugee advocates are concerned for the safety of asylum seekers in Nauru after large-scale riots at the island’s detention centre late last month. Yesterday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed a deal with Nauru’s president that will see asylum seekers who arrive by boat in Australia sent to Nauru to have their claims processed and possibly resettle there. But an Asylum Seeker
Resource Centre spokeswoman is worried about hostility from the local people towards asylum seekers. A fortnight ago, asylum seekers being held on Nauru rioted, causing $60 million in damage to the facilities there.
Drowning in neglect | ljazeera.com
Three people have drowned and about 40 others were still missing … Does Australia have any legal or moral responsibility toward refugees …
Australia Says 120 Refugees May Have Drowned Off Indonesia | www.businessweek.com
More than 120 asylum seekers may have drowned off Indonesia, according to the Australian government, which is reopening offshore …
Almost 1,000 asylum seekers, often from war-torn Middle Eastern and South Asian nations, are known to have drowned in the waters between Indonesia and Australia since 2001. While the number of people seeking asylum in Australia is dwarfed by applications to the U.S., the issue has dogged Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s government, which is clawing back from near record-low approval ratings before elections due next year.
Chords — C C+G C-C+G#
G D C
Made in the USA (West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
I tried dialing “Operator”
A message said, “Try (again) later”
Hey! What am I suppose to do
If I can’t get through?
I tried dialing “9-1-1”
They said, “We can’t help you… none.”
Guess it’s nothing new
Society’s point-of-view
Operator! The Creator
Separator — wheat from chaff
Alienator — frown from laugh
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Capo 2
G Am
Am Em
Made in the USA (Philadelphia and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)
After a conversation with my son about Richard Dawkins, I pondered on the obsolescence of a Great Operator. Songs like the Black Keys’ Little Black Submarines and Pink Floyd’s Young Lust refer to a telephone operator. Will people know what they are talking about now that phone operators are obsolete? Does the same hold true for the concept of God?
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Like Father, Like Son
By Daniel Brouse