LYRICS
I’ve been wandering
Wondering as I’m wandering
Out on the range
Isn’t life strange
I hope I’m not walking
I hope I’m not talking
In circles
I’d feel like such a circle-jerk
That just won’t work
I’ve been wandering
Wondering as I’m wandering
Out on the range
Isn’t life strange
Let’s begin to soak it in
It doesn’t matter where you begin
Soak it in
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F Bb C
Rhythm: 100 BPM / Pop Rock #2 and Blues Rock
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
A song about the downtrodden and our hope, faith and charity.
The first time I recorded a version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, I was just learning what the song meant. The time was right after 9/11. As I started to look into the song, I found it was an Old English Carol about the downtrodden. Then, a new mate from England wrote me and said:
Merry in the Old English of this carol did not mean “Happy” it meant “Mighty” or “Powerful” (Think Robin Hood’s Merry Men – They weren’t happy because they were wearing tights… you know… they were a powerful fighting unit) The word “Rest” in the Old English also meant to invest a property in… or in other words to “make”.
So the first line of the carol in modern English would be “God Make You Mighty Gentlemen” Similarly the term “Merry Christmas” means have a “Powerful” Christmas. Kind of gives the phrase a whole new meaning doesn’t it?
Since then, I started to learn about the song “House of the Rising Son”. It turns out this, also, may be an Old English Traditional song (that USA blues guys adapted.) Coincidentally, it is also a song about the downtrodden. Both songs are about redemption… faith, hope and charity.
The video is a combination of man’s sins with God’s glory fading in and out.
Am
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
F E
Let nothing you dismay
Am
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
F E
Was born on Christmas day
Dm C
To save us all from Satan's power
Am G
When we were gone astray
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
Am
From God our Heavenly Father
F E
A blessed Angel came;
Am
And unto certain Shepherds
F E
Brought tidings of the same:
Dm C
How that in Bethlehem was born
Am G
The Son of God by Name.
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
Am
And when they came to Bethlehem
F E
Where our dear Saviour lay,
Am
They found Him in a manger,
F E
Where oxen feed on hay;
Dm C
His Mother Mary kneeling down,
Am G
Unto the Lord did pray.
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
Am
Now to the Lord sing praises,
F E
All you within this place,
Am
And with true love and brotherhood
F E
Each other now embrace;
Dm C
This holy tide of Christmas
Am G
All other doth deface.
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Recording: 4-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
G D G
Silent night! Holy night! All is calm all is bright
C G C G
Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild
D G Em G D G
Sleep in heavenly peace! Sleep in heavenly peace!
G D G
Silent night! Holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight
C G C G
Glories stream from heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah
D G Em G D G
Christ the Saviour is born! Christ the Saviour is born!
G D G
Silent night! Holy night! Son of God love's pure light
C G C G
Radiant beams from thy holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace
D G Em G D G
Jesus lord at thy birth! Jesus lord at thy birth!
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C F Bb
Rhythm: 100 BPM / Pop Rock #2 and Blues Rock
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
LYRICS
Won’t you please, please, please
Love me do
Like I love you
Love me do
Won’t you please
Love me do
Like I love you
I love you
All my life
I was hoping and praying they’d come true
My dreams of you
All my life
I’ve been hoping to collide with you
Won’t you please, please, please
Love me do
Won’t you please
I’m begging you on my knees
Please love me do
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em D
Rhythm: 136 BPM / Pop Rock #2 and Clubdance
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: DM7 D7 Bm7 / A7
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
A song written on December 14, 2015 after several days of record breaking temperatures. People are saying it is hard to get into the Christmas spirit without snow.
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Am G / C D E F G A
Rhythm: 132 BPM / 16 Beat #3 and Clubdance
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
LYRICS
Took a look around and instantly found
A brain of feces is common in my species
If you want to get up, you’ve gotta get out of bed
At the end of the day, what can be said?
Get your get your feet running before you hit the ground
Puzzle a thesis and figure out the pieces
Chorus
Is your only path to knowledge to be force fed
Didn’t graduate from college ’cause knowledge you dread
Chorus
LYRICS
When the going gets tough
Do the tough get going?
Going… without any of ’em knowing?
Are any of them going knowing
When the going gets tough
Do the tough get going?
Are any of them knowing
Growing?
Growing with experience
I’m starting to sense
The answer is no
They don’t know
They don’t know no know
When the going gets tough
Do the tough get going?
None of ’em knowing
The problem is the system known as I am
I’m
I’m the system causing havoc
Causing the Earth to get sick
If I could only think quick
But… when the going gets tough
The tough get going
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Gm9 G
Rhythm: 126 BPM / Slow 16 Beat and Trance #2
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C Dm
Rhythm: 128 BPM / Funk #1 and Handbag
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
LYRICS
Have you been a good little girl or boy?
Now you want Santa to bring you a toy
Have you been good the whole year through
Or, I’ll have bad news
Coal in the stocking blues
I heard people talking
They said it’s shocking
Jaw dropping
Eye popping
Been good the whole year through… well, have you?
Or, I’ll have bad news
Coal in the stocking blues
Strum they told me
Stru, stru, stru, stru, strum
A new born king has come
Stru, stru, stru, stru, strum
Break that guitar out of your gunny sack
And give that axe a whack
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E E7 / G A E / A E / B7 A G E
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
A song written on December 14, 2015 after several days of record breaking temperatures. People are saying it is hard to get into the Christmas spirit without snow.
LYRICS
Oh! No!
Wouldn’t you know
There’s no snow
Christmas cheer’s on holiday this year
No cheer near here
Christmas cheer’s on holiday this year
No cheer near hear
Christmas cheer on holiday
Wouldn’t you say?
The leaves fell down
Still no snow on the ground
None to be found
Christmas cheer’s on holiday this year
No cheer near here
Christmas cheer’s on holiday this year
No cheer near hear
Christmas cheer on holiday
Wouldn’t you say?
Advent did begin
December moves in
Still it’s not snowin’
Chorus
Hard to believe
Approaching Christmas Eve
Pray “at least a dusting, please”
Chorus
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C F Am / E Am
Recording: 4-track digital stereo
A song written on December 14, 2015 after several days of record breaking temperatures. People are saying it is hard to get into the Christmas spirit without snow.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
Is your toe over the line
Have you crossed the line
Did you toe the line
Tow the line
Have you gone to far
Leaving the door ajar
Now all hell is breaking loose
Killed the golden goose
Now you’re running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off
Did you toe the line
Did you tow the line
As a member of society
Being part of humanity
It is business of mine
So I’m minding my own business when I ask you
Did you toe the line
Did you tow the line
Did you start in time
Did you toe the line
Did you cross the line
Did you tow the line
T-t-t-t-t-t tip toe
Toe the line
T-t-t-t-t-t tip toe
Tow the line
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em7 EmM7 C#m7b5 C#mM7 Adim
Rhythm: 136 BPM / Pop Waltz and Swing #1
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
From the album <a href=”http://danielle.membrane.com/Daniel-Brouse/Metamorphic-Rocks/”><strong><em>Metamorphic Rocks</em></strong></a>
by <a href=”/”>Daniel Brouse</a>
LYRICS
Will it suffice to sacrifice your life
If you know immortality for all eternity
Will it suffice to sacrifice your life
If you just go on to sin and sin again
Are you suppose to resolve all man’s sins
What are you believing
You’ve got to won up to your sin
What are you believing
You can’t run from your sin
If your end never ends
How can you begin to live up to all your sin
You’ve got to take responsibility
Can’t you see
You can’t depend on someone else’s immortality
You’re a sight to see
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em C A
Recording: extemporaneous 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)