bookmark_borderBlack And White

Guitar
Writing the song Black And White

LYRICS
You know you took it too far
Right when you crossed the line
From my point-of-view — bizarre

No, it wasn’t the first time
It wasn’t the second time
It wasn’t even 3 strikes you’re out

Wrong and right
Is black and white

You don’t need a moral compass
To prove you’re an ass
This was no seventh inning stretch
You just caused a total train wreck

Black And White.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — E add high G, add low G
E A G E
B

Written and recorded on January 6, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

VIDEO — How to Play the Guitar Part

bookmark_borderItching Energy

Writing the Song *Itching Energy*
Writing the Song *Itching Energy*

Itching Energy.mp3

LYRICS
There’s something that’s in me
An itching energy
That’s busting, busting, busting out to be

A golden synergy

Like electricity

There’s something that’s in me
An itching energy
That’s busting, busting, busting out to be

Praise God for eternity… or, at least relativity?

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 2
E E9 E7 Esus4 etc
G A E

Written and recorded on January 5, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Drums, Guitar

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

VIDEO — How to Play the Guitar Part

bookmark_borderLordess Of Destruction

Lordess Of Destruction Part 3.mp3

LYRICS
Do you thirst to see blood?
Do you like to see people dragged through the mud?
Lordess Of Darkness
I suppose you’re your own curse

You weren’t quite fortunate enough
To be fetched by a hearse
You’re just a living zombie
A shell of a body
Foul
You’ve got no soul
You’re the Lordess Of Darkness
I suppose you’re your own curse

Lordess Of Darkness

With all your previous lives
You’d think you’d realize
Lordess Of Darkness
I suppose you’re your own curse

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Am A sus4

Written and recorded on January 4, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. It is a song about how some females abuse the justice system because of the courts’ discrimination against men.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderElixir

Korg Nano Keyboard
Korg Nano Keyboard

Elixir (Keys-Roads-Trip-E-Piano).mid

LYRICS
If you’re feeling down and out
Let music show you what She’s about
Music can cure your soul

If your healing from life’s toll
Share the feeling with a shout
Singing can cure your soul

(May the music sooth your soul)

Elixir.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — C CM7 C C add9 C F

Written and recorded on January 4 and 5, 2013 in Ambler, Montgomery County and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Korg Nano Key

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHummina Hummina Hummina

LYRICS
Hummina hummina hummina
If someone comes up to you on the street
And, tries to give you some discrete… or less than discrete
Tries to give a piece concrete
Evidence
Which is summed up with the hummina hummina hummina
My suggestion
Run
Or, if you want to have some fun
Go ahead and engage
Ask about rosemary and sage

If you are going to rise and ride the tide
You don’t want to feel like you’re being swept away
You want to feel like you have some kind-of control over the day
No hummina hummina hummina along the way
Trying not to say hummina hummina hummina

If you are more interested in knowing the great unknown
Please let your presence be known

Hummina, Hummina, Hummina.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — C Cm Baug Csus4

Written and recorded on January 3, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderGreat Unknown

The Great Unknown.mp3

Writing the song The Great Unknown
Writing the song The Great Unknown

LYRICS
The Great Unknown x2
There’s much to learn
About the great unknown
The Great Unknown x2
The more that we see
The less great it will be

If you really want to set yourself free
Get knowing… it’s sheer ecstasy

The Great Unknown x2
Increasing comprehension
In the great unknown

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G less G add F add Bb add Eb
G

Written and recorded on January 3, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 8-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. It is the theme song ditty jingle for the album of the same name.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

How To Play The Guitar:

bookmark_borderWhat Is This Song About?

LYRICS
Dag-nab-it! Why can’t you just remember what this song is about?
I did now don’t

Why can’t you just remember what this song is about?

I was just getting ready to lay down the track
When my stomach had this sort-of weird attack
By the time I got back
My memory was at a lack

That’s why I can’t remember what this song is about
I did now I don’t

It was right there
On the tip-of-my-tongue
I swear
It was right there

Why can’t I remember what this song is about
I did… now, don’t

What Is This Song About.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Eb Gb Bbm

Written and recorded on January 2, 2013 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Great Unknown
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Comings And Goings

LYRICS
Comings and goings
The comings and goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

That you’re aware of everything
That you’re there
That you’re in everything
The comings and the goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

You are comforting
In all that you bring
You’re comforting
The comings and the goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

That when I sing of things you bring
You bring to be me a special thing
The comings and the goings
They say you’re here
They say you’re everywhere

They say you’re with us everywhere

There’s one thing I hope I can convey
There’s one thing I’d convey if I may
There’s only the one thing
That can take you from here
To everywhere
That can take you from here
So you’re everywhere

And, that would be
God Almighty
Then, you can see
To eternity

Your being can be in everywhere

Comings And Goings.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G D7sus4 Bdim C

Written and recorded on January 1, 2013 (New Year’s Day) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording. “The comings and goings” is a phrase that means the movements of people arriving at places and leaving places.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderProlover

LYRICS
Bring on the lover
Forget the hater
Bring on the lover
No procrastinator

The light will hover
Over you

Smile on your neighbor
Like the creator
Smile on you neighbor
Be something greater

The light will hover
Over you

No collaborator
Of shady character
An elaborator
Of the grandeur

The light will hover
Over you

Prolover.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Dm G C

Written and recorded on January 1, 2013 (New Year’s Day) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWelcome to the Land of Wonders

Welcome to the Land of Wonders.mp3

LYRICS
Welcome to the land of wonders
An experiment in Man’s blunders
Accumulation with the culmination
Man-made self-annihilation

Where fact is stranger than fiction
We’re humans fixed on eradication

Pollution’s fogging up the sky
Never bothering to even ask, “Why”
Pollution’s fouling the waterfowl
We shrug our shoulders and say, “Oh, well.”

Where fact is stranger than fiction
We’re humans fixed on eradication

The natural order we re-arrange
Resulting in human induced climate change
Ice is melting. Sea level is rising.
You’d think by now we’d be realizing

Where fact is stranger than fiction
We’re humans fixed on eradication

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em C(M7) Cm7

Written and recorded on January 1, 2013 (New Years Day) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital 8-track stereo recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTow The Line

LYRICS
If we all tow the line

If we all tow the line
We’ll get there on time

If we all tow the line
We’ll get there on time
Instead of “everything’s mine”

Tow The Line.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — F walk-up to Bb
Bb walk-down to F
F walk-down to C
C walk-up to Bb

Written and recorded on December 31, 2012 (New Year’s Eve) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Future Cometh

The Future Cometh.mp3

LYRICS
The future comes
Headed right at you
Scared stiff fright
Frozen in the headlights

The future comes
It’s staring right at you
Into the light
You shine for glory on high heights

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Gm7
Dm
G / A

Written and recorded on December 31, 2012 (New Year’s Eve) in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.  The song is about choosing between being scared or shining light the stars.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Years In Review

The Years In Review.mp3

Dani Brouse on the Monkey Bars
Dani Brouse on the Monkey Bars

LYRICS
Do you remember
All those years ago
When you wondered
About the wonders
Of the world

Go swinging on the monkey bars
Dream up things and shoot for the stars
The days when we’d climb trees
Dream of days when we’d look back at these

Chorus

Go swimming on hot summer days
Play you guitar and try to amaze
Make paper airplanes fly with the breeze
Dream of days when we’d look back on these

Chorus

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
A sus4
D sus4
E sus4 / A add9

Written and recorded on December 31, 2012 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital 8-track stereo recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWelcome To The New Year

LYRICS
Welcome the new year
Happy you’re here
Now that this year is so near
It’s kind-of already passing us by
What will we do
Happy New Year
We’ll have to get through
Happy New Year
We’ll have to make do

It’s that time of year
When you want to make some sort-of a resolution
I would suggest a revolution
Against a resolution you won’t keep
Because we can’t weep…
No, we can’t weep any more
Too many dead on the floor
We’re tired of crying
I’m just saying…
It’s time for a happy new year
Happy New Year

It will be better than before
We can do so, so much more

Happy New Year!

Welcome The New Year Part 7.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — A G F G A
A D A

Written and recorded on December 30, 2012 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTwenty Thirteen

Twenty Thirteen.mp3

LYRICS
Twenty thirteen
Hard to believe we’ve seen
Twenty thirteen
Like we’re living ON a dream

Living on a dream

The days
They come and go
Now, we’re going on beyond
The Mayan calender
Further
With no end in sight
Just the light
At the end of the tunnel

Joy and peace come to all
It’s wonderful

Twenty thirteen
Hard to believe it’s seen
Twenty thirteen
Like we’re living on a dream

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G F G G7(sus4) G

Written and recorded on December 30, 2012 in Chester County, Pennsylvania as a digital, 1-track stereo, extemporaneous recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Twenty Thirteen
By Daniel Brouse