bookmark_borderHere I Am

LYRICS
Now, here is where I am
Here is where we are
It may appear we haven’t moved far
But, we’ve been there and back again

Now, here is where we are

I’m hoping that along the way
We learned a lesson or two
Some sort-of cumulative knowledge
That will help us gain… an edge
So, we’ll be further ahead
So, we gain an edge
Not be perched on the ledge

Here is where I am
Here is where we are
Though it may appear that we haven’t moved that far
’cause we’ve been there and back again

Here I Am Part 4.mp3

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

Written and recorded on December 23, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania as an impromptu, extemporaneous, on-the-fly, 1-track stereo recording.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Mayan on the Darkside of Uranus
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderForget What You Are Doing

LYRICS
Please forget what you are doing
Can you forget what you’re doing
Forget what you are doing
There’s something more important ensuing
That is worth you pursuing
You’re undivided attention for more than a short span is required
Please, no excuse… you’re too tired
Please no excuses
And, no… you’re not being thrown under buses
It’s time we focus
Time to wake

Can you forget
For a moment
Or, longer yet
What you’re doing?
Whatever it is you’re doing
There’s something over here with pursuing
And, like it or not, it’s ensuing
Right now
It’s not the future
It’s not the past quite yet
But, if you can’t forget what you are doing
It will no longer be present

I’d like to catch it, bottle it, cork it for you
But, it’s going on… and I don’t know for how long

Forget What You Are Doing.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em D Em B Em

Written and recorded on December 23, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania as an impromptu, extemporaneous, on-the-fly, 1-track stereo recordings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Mayan on the Darkside of Uranus
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLight Years

LYRICS
It feels as though we’re light years away

You’d think in this day
In this day and age
We’d be able to turn the page
To a new day
We’d be able to find a way

It feels as though we’re light years away

If indeed we are a civil civilization
We better have the realization
To have some humane in our humanity
If we’re civil in our civility
We might stand a chance
But, it feels as though we’re light years away

So we better think quick
And, build a spaceship
So there’s enough space
For all this bullshit
’cause we can find a way
In this day and age
We can turn the page
Find a better way
For a better day
We can move through light years today

Or, would that be yesterday or tomorrow?
Past, present and future
We can endure

Light Years Part 4.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — C Cm C7 Cm7

Written on December 21, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania and was recorded impromptu, extemporaneous and on-the-fly as 1-track stereo recordings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderFortunate

LYRICS
Every day when I rise
I give praise
For giving me these days
So fortunate

So fortunate
And, I get it
Giving me the strength
Giving me the wisdom
Giving me the days
Length and then some
How fortunate I am
And, I know it

I’m fortunate
And, I really get it
I get it
Every day when I rise
I praise
Thank you, Lord, for giving me these days
How fortunate
And, I get it

Because of you
I’m of body and soul
I give praise
For these days

Fortunate.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Dm G Dm Em C Dm

Written on December 21, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania and was recorded impromptu, extemporaneous and on-the-fly as 1-track stereo recordings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderAre You The Missing Link?

In the middle
In the middle of it
Whether you are within
Or, the outer skin

From out here
You’re in the middle of it
From out here
You’re all in the middle of it

From outside
From way back here
It looks like you’re in the middle of it
If you take a different perspective
A different look
It will appear
You’re in the middle of it

If you want to call it a habit
’cause it’s something you can’t quit
As long as you’re under the atmosphere
And above the ground (by at least 6 feet)
Then the chances are thick
You’re in the middle of it

You Are the Missing Link.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Gb Ebm Bbm add 9

Written on December 20, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania and was recorded impromptu, extemporaneous and on-the-fly as 1-track stereo recordings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderSafety Dance (Part 2)

LYRICS
If we all stand and dance
We might all stand a chance

You might think you can sit in your seat
And, dance
Well, if you do
And, you can sit and through a fit
That’s you
But, if we all stand and dance
We might stand a chance

As the times get tougher and tougher and rougher and rougher
You might even call it ugly
There’s a light you can see
Come with me
And, make me we
We’ll dance
Because if we all stand and dance
We might stand a chance

Dance is a spiritual romance
It can take us higher
Love is in the dance
There’s romance in the dance
If we all stand and dance
We might stand a chance

We can get together with our energy
And, you and me become we

We’ve only got so much time on this Earth
From when you’re dead
Back to the time of your birth
If you want to make those days pay
And, be on your merry way
If we all stand and dance
We might all stand a chance

What do you say we pick this up a little bit maestro?

(up the tempo)

Safety Dance Part 2.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords –G Bb F G

Written on December 20, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It’s about dancing and music can save the world. All of the songs on the album are done impromptu, extemporaneous and on-the-fly as 1-track stereo recordings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderBe On Your Merry Way

LYRICS
As you are going through your day-to-day
Are you having fun along the way?

If you’re feeling miserable and mean
I’m hoping I can help you come clean
If you’re having trouble all the time
Hoping that you get to find a rhyme
That will help you on your merry way
Be on your merry way

As you’re going through your day-to-day
Are you having fun along the way
For I’m just here to help you say O.K.
Hope you can be on your merry way

As you are going through your day-to-day
Are you having fun along the way?

Be On Your Merry Way.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Dm C Dm Em F G Am

Written on December 20, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It’s about being happy, smiling and laughter… good things that feed themselves.  All of the songs on the album are done impromptu, extemporaneous and on-the-fly as 1-track stereo recordings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderJoin The Slugfest

LYRICS
I confess the world is a mess
Come on
Join the slugfest

We can do our best
To take the high road
We can do our best
To lighten the load

Come on
Join the slugfest

Might as well join the slugfest
The world is a mess
We can do our best
To take it to a better place
To make it a better place…
Before we eclipse our race

If you’re able please keep pace
Well, we gotta win this race
It’s more like a relay
Than an individual event
So, we need that spirit
We need to be a team
If we’re gonna glean
The winner’s circle
If we’re gonna be
On the podium
Gotta be the best I can
Gotta be the best I am

The best I.M. (individual medley)

Come join in the slugfest
We can make it the best
Once we think of it
A soul mosh pit
Join in the slugfest
We’ll do our best
To reach a crest
Through the trough

Join The Slugfest.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Am C G Am

It is a song inspired by the first full length album recorded by The Electric Slugs entitled Join The Slugfest.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderGet Silly

LYRICS
Let’s get silly and see what happens

Let’s get silly
Really silly
Let’s get silly and see what happens

And, I don’t mean stupid
And, I don’t mean ignorant
I mean
Let’s get silly and see what happens
Childlike
Without preconceived notions
Let’s make a motion
That’s right
Alright?

Let’s get silly and see what happens

Where we can stay up all night
Alright?

Get Silly.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — D F C Bb

Written and recorded in December of 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It’s about being happy, smiling and laughter… it’s good for you.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderWhy?

LYRICS
Driving down the road, I saw a bumper sticker
Reading, “If you could ask God one question, what would it be?”

I couldn’t ‘ve thunk much quicker
Before it occurred to me —
Why?

The gauntlet of life
May you be the light
Shinning bright
So rife
Ever evolving cycles
Letting us grow together
Bugle of Gabriel
All things getting better

I use to be the image of an ape, too
… just like you
We’ve traveled through
To a condition of raised vibration

An eye on why I?

Why? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em D Em D F D Em
C D E
C D

Written on December 19, 2012 in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

“Death is Nature’s way of recycling human beings.”

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderSet The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Originally by Pink Floyd
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Syd Barrett)
Coversong by The Electric Slugs

Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Barrett)

Am                   G              Am      G  Am
Little by little the night turns around,

                          G           Am    G  Am
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn

Dm                   C          Dm          C  Dm
Lotus's lean on each other in yearning,

Am               G              Am
Over the hills a swallow is resting

G  Am  F  Am  F  Am

                         G             Am   G  Am  G  Am  G  Am
Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Am                 G                 Am     G  Am
Over the mountains watching the watcher,

                      G               Am    G  Am
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine

Dm                   C               Dm     C  Dm
Knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow,

Am                      G            Am
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine

G  Am  F  Am  F  Am

                         G             Am   G  Am  G  Am
Set the controls for the heart of the sun,

Am
The heart of the sun,  The heart of the sun...

Am                    G            Am       G  Am
Witness the man who waves at the wall,

                        G               Am  G  Am
Making the shape of his questions to heaven

Dm                   C               Dm     C  Dm
Whether the sun will fall in the evening,

Am                   G            Am
Will he remember the lesson of giving?

G  Am  F  Am  F  Am

                         G             Am   G  Am
Set the controls for the heart of the sun,

Am
The heart of the sun,  The heart of the sun...

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Recorded on December 20, 2012 in the early morning.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Electric Slugs album Glistening Trails
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderBomb-control (to Major Tom)

LYRICS
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, lift-off
This is Bomb-control to Major Tom
This is Bomb-control to Major Tom
Can you hear me, Major Tom
Are you even awake?
Cause if you are, I have a feeling you’d shake
We don’t need gun-control
What’s needed hear is bomb-control

We nuked all these kids in World War II
Then, we tried to… er, a… ya know… say it wasn’t true

How about in Iraq
When we did the attack
On the sewage treatment plants
Just so we could kill tens of thousands and thousands of kids
With their own feces
We’ll my thesis is — that’s sick!

This is Bomb-control to Major Tom
Can you hear me, Major Tom
Are you even awake?

Are you conscience
Do you have a conscience

This is Bomb-control to Major Tom
Can you hear me, Major Tom
I’m telling ya
Something’s gone wrong
The wiring in your brain has gone insane
The drone attacks
The CIA
You can’t just sodomize everyone everyday

This is Bomb-control to Major Tom
Can you hear me, Major Tom
Come in
Can you hear me….

This is Bomb-control
And, I gotta say things are outta control

Bomb Control.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — G Em G C D G

Written and recorded on December 16, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania as an impromptu response to the calls for gun-control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings. If we want to stop the mass murder of kids, we need to wake-up and look in the mirror. U.S. citizens are responsible for killing a multitude of thousands.

It was written in conjunction with the article
Gun Control? We Need Bomb Control

P.S. thank you to David Bowie

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Beatless Sense Mongers album An I for I, a Brain for a Brain
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderScissor Massacre

LYRICS
After a massacre
People get a scare
As though they’re unaware
They try to take my scissors away

Hey! Thinking gone astray
Taking my scissors Away

Just because someday
Someone, somewhere
May slay
You’re going to take my scissors away?

When you can’t take a gun on a plane
The insane use the plane
Does that make it sane to take the plane?

Tough to own a gun in China
So, the insane stab ya
Are we all going to be eating with spoons soon?

Save the day
Before they take my scissors away

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em D B Am G Em

Written and recorded on December 15, 2012 in West Chester, PA. It was inspired by people talking about taking away our freedom after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

Daniel — Vocals, Scissors, Keyboards

Scissor Massacre USA.mp4

From The Beatless Sense Mongers album An I for I, a Brain for a Brain
By Daniel Brouse

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bookmark_borderMay the Music Take You Higher

LYRICS
If you are down from all these attacks on humanity
Please consider… it might just be our tax for insanity

May the music take us higher
Elevate all we vibrate

If we create
This society
I guess that’s what we do
Then it’s our responsibility to see it through
We create these monsters
Then when it comes time
We distance ourselves further
Farther, further, father

May the music take us higher
And, elevate all we vibrate

May the music
And, all that we do
Take us higher

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Dm F Dm D

Written and recorded on December 15, 2012 in Chester County, PA. It was inspired by the events surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Beatless Sense Mongers album: An I for I, a Brain for a Brain
By Daniel Brouse

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Save our freedom! Don’t be dumb!

bookmark_borderPlease Do NOT Be Dumb with Freedom

Please Do NOT Be Dumb with Freedom.mp3
(Free MP3 Freedom Music Download)

LYRICS
Why do you want to take away my rights
I swear it’s not right
Take away my freedom
Are you dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb?

When you talk about talking about
Talk, talk, talk, talk
About taking away my rights
Why don’t you take away your First, first
You don’t deserve freedom of speech
In fact, it’s a breach
Of humanity
You can blame the insanity
On society
But, that doesn’t make sense
To take away my rights
My freedom
Are you dumb, dumb, da da de dumb, dumb?

Leave my freedom alone
Don’t tread on me
Oh, can’t you see
This is the home
The home of the free and the brave
So, please save
Our freedom

Please don’t be dumb with our freedom
Why would you want to give mine away
Come on
All you talk and say about my rights
Just ain’t right
Don’t take my freedom away
Not today
Not any day

Are you dumb, da da de, dumb, dumb

Home come
You want to mess with freedom
When you take freedom away
That’s not O.K.

Why would you want to take away freedom
Are you dumb, da da de de da dumb?

Please, “Save our freedom! Don’t be dumb!”
Narley Marley reggae version: The Freedom Song.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em Am Em D Em

Written and recorded on December 14, 2012 in Chester County, PA. It was inspired by people talking about taking away my Second Amendment Rights after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From The Beatless Sense Mongers album An I for I, a Brain for a Brain
By Daniel Brouse

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Save our freedom! Don’t be dumb!