The Electric Slugs – ExperiMental Music

Light Years

Posted on December 23, 2012December 23, 2012 by admin

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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Fortunate

Posted on December 23, 2012 by admin

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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Are You The Missing Link?

Posted on December 21, 2012December 21, 2012 by admin

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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Safety Dance (Part 2)

Posted on December 21, 2012 by admin

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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Be On Your Merry Way

Posted on December 20, 2012December 21, 2012 by admin

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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Join The Slugfest

Posted on December 20, 2012 by admin

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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Get Silly

Posted on December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 by admin

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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Why?

Posted on December 19, 2012December 21, 2012 by admin

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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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Posted on December 17, 2012December 20, 2012 by admin

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