bookmark_borderGoing Nuclear

Going Nuclear.mp3

LYRICS
“What are you waiting for?”
1,2,3,4…
For four minutes or more
“What I’ve been waiting for”
Let me make it clear
… going nuclear
(I’d rather not be here)
Radiate the foe
A cancer growth must go
When you’ve cut out his heart
Yet, he will not depart
I fear…
You’ve got to go nuclear
“What are you waiting for?”
22,23,24…
For 24 minutes or more
“What I’ve been waiting for”
Anticipate the end of the wait
Evacuate
Clear of nuclear
“What are you waiting for?”
Before more hours
The moment’s ours
“What I’ve been waiting for”
Clear of nuclear
“What I’ve been waiting for”

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E’s / E A / G A E
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Songs written in the doctors’ waiting rooms. This one was written in the Chester County Hospital’s Radiology waiting room for a patient undergoing cancer treatment
From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFound Foundation

LYRICS
We’ve found foundation
A movement based on solid rock
Taking stock in a phonic nation
We’ve found “ation”
Motivation. Stimulation. Activation.
Found foundation
Tap your footers
See your saws jig
Blocks of solid rock
We’ve found foundation
The notion of a movement
A motion for a foundation
Gyration. Vibration. Sensation
We’ve found “ation”
Found foudnation
Vocalization. Instrumentation. Realization.
Visualization. Penetration. Actualization.
Salvation. Our soul-ation.

Found Foundation.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E Esus4 / Am C E / E Am/E / Em CM7
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Songs written in the doctors’ waiting rooms — this one was inspired by a “foundation” poster on the wall.
From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!

by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Market Street Stroll

Market and High Streets, West Chester, PA
LYRICS
Count the cadence
Mark the beat
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
You might catch some heat
If you’re not discrete
Share your glow in the flow
They’ll never know
Walk the walk
Rock the roll
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
Ohhh there’s so much
To enjoy the touch
Incorporate the scene
Into your dream
I suspect when you intersect with High
You won’t walk right by
Stop by, say High? and give it a try
In the thick of the music

The Market Street Stroll (Video).mp4

The Market Street Stroll.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E A G / E A G E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Piano

A song about the rhythm of the street in downtown West Chester. Written at the corner of Market and High Streets in Chester County, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderBlown Up

LYRICS
I don’t know where you are
Don’t let the wind blow you too far
… too far
… trip bizarre
Remember Dorthy
Before her ruby shoes
She broke free from Kansas’ shores
… Kansas’ sures
… assures
Maybe you should drop your sails
That North wind sure wails
No blown off course remorse
Through the straight and narrow
… into tomorrow
Poor Dorothy
Said “there is no place like home”
Never will she see
Reality — home is where you roam

Blown Away.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: G D / G C D
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderMean’s Extreme

mean: unkind, spiteful, or unfair
mean: an average; a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes
mean: intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify

A song about humanity and extreme weather events.

LYRICS
Hurricane
Weather’s vain
Insane hurricane
Whether vane
Spinnin’ round
As the weather’s falling down
Reigning down
Reigning rain
Too soon typhoon
Hurricane… weather’s fain
Monsoon too soon
Reigning down
Whether blown
Seems the seams
Mean’s extremes

Mean’s Extreme (Instrumental).mp3

Mean’s Extreme.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C F / F7 Cm
Rhythm: 88 BPM 8 Beat Soft
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWe Can Do This!

We Can Do This! .mp3

LYRICS
Afraid if you do
Afraid if you don’t
Afraid made it so you won’t
At the very least, you don’t
I see in your eyes
You’re paralyzed
“Maybe it’s just as well”
’cause what if you fell?
After all, if you fall
Well… get back up and keep your eye on the ball
Just get backup after all
I can’t do this
I can’t do that
No! “Can’t” is not where it’s at
I see in your eyes
You’re paralyzed
Believe me I can tell
It’s not just as well
We’ve entered the age
Of must muster the courage

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G A E / E G E / E A B7 E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBeating Like A Drum

Beating Like A Drum.mp3

LYRICS
I feel something growing
From within your heart
I hear something growing
The pulse you impart
Like a royal symphony
You’re part is the timpani
The spine of our time
The backbone in the zone
You are the start
… the finale
You are the heart
The tempo… you know…
That moves me
You hold us together
Separating us from never
The ever that would never happen
If you didn’t begin showing
What I felt growing
Within
You heart
The pulse you start

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em F#m Bm
Rhythm: 72 BPM Country Ballad with Symphony Drum Kit plus Shufflin’ Rock/Pop MiniNova and Breathing on a Loop Pedal
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCome Out

LYRICS
Haven’t we met before
Weren’t you coming out the door
I recognize your face
Coming out of that place
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Like a bug meeting windshield
Your insides revealed
What are you made of….
Any of it love
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Like a bug meeting windscreen
When your insides are seen
Your innards… what you ate
Full of hate?
Are you full of hate
Appreciate the love

Have we met before
Will your memory endure
What are you made of….
Any of it love
Did you know you had to come out
To get in
That’s what begin
Is about

Come Out.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by an article from Science Magazine and the songs Fly On The Windshield and Carpet Crawlers by Genesis.

From the Science article Where have all the insects gone?
12 May 2017
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6338/576.full

Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany. Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. “I’m a very data-driven person,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon. “But it is a visceral reaction when you realize you don’t see that mess anymore.”

Neonicotinoid pesticides, already implicated in the widespread crash of bee populations, are a prime suspect.

Paying attention to what E. O. Wilson calls “the little things that run the world” is worthwhile, Sorg says. “We won’t exterminate all insects. That’s nonsense. Vertebrates would die out first. But we can cause massive damage to biodiversity—damage that harms us.”

Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Bm C Em Esus
Rhythm: 120 BPM 6/8 Rock
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Electric Guitar Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFly High

LYRICS
Though the chances seem slim
Climb out on a limb
You’ve got to try
Before you fly
The songbird sings
Flapping of the wings
You’ve got to try
Before you fly
Will you ever know
If you don’t give ‘er a go
Be a liver that’s a giver
Then you’ll know
A liver of life
A giver of love
Believer in dreams
Creator of scenes
An angel sings
You’ve got your wings
You’ve got to try
Before you fly

Fly High.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F Am / C C7 / C E Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Synth-strings

From the album The Bleeding Edge
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFiction Friction

Cat-Women of the Moon
Cat-Women of the Moon

LYRICS
Back when I was a kid
Everyone did…
… did know it was fiction
When the diction was fiction
Now, staring at the stark face of reality
I see… I see….
The action of fiction friction
On reality
Looks like reality TV to me
Smells like reality TV to me
Tastes like reality TV to me
Wish I hadn’t stepped in it
[Woe… wish I hadn’t stepped in it
I think that this must stink]
Alien space women from Mars
Took over the stars
Including ours
Son, I’m talking our sun!

Fiction Friction.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Inspired by the Trump administration and science-fiction B-movie posters, such as, Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Mars Needs Women (1967), and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968).

Style: Protest Blues Rock
Chords: Open G tuning / open 3rd fret walkdown / 6th fret blues turnaround / 12th fret slide
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Slide Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderWhat’s Missing

LYRICS
How do you know what you’re missing
If you don’t know what you’re missing?
Are you running a race
To try n’ grab some space?
Does elude elude you, too?
Too proud under your cloud
To realize sunshine is fine
Can’t hear the music, if you’re being too loud

Don’t know the formula for formula
Lack knowledge to know what ya know
On the subject of freedom…
Is he dumb?
Baby, maybe
I’m sayin’ “I ain’t foolin'”
He need’s schoolin’
I don’t know where to begin

Elusive
Elude is soooo elusive
… let me see
This elusive eludes me
Does it elude you, too?

If you don’t know what you’re missing
How do you know what you’re missing
Yes know?
Yes, no?

What’s Missing?   .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E A B7/B
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderDear John,

A true story with music inspired by Welcome To The Machine and Pigs (3 Different Ones).

Former Officer John
Former Officer John

LYRICS
Dear John,
You’ve gone so wrong
Thinkin’ bigwig for weigh [sic] too long
Reduced to a big PIG song
I wish you made me laugh
Instead,
… I try not to cry

Had to conform
Hand in his uniform
The life he’s worn
Worn, torn and wasted
You know…
The dues you owe
For lives devastated
Shouldn’t have wasted
I wish you made me laugh
Instead,
… I try not to cry

Dear John
Had to conform
Didn’t learn
From the pig he’ll earn
Freedom he’ll yearn
You know…
The dues you owe
Those berated
Lives devastated
Shouldn’t have waited
Why be hated?
I wish you made me laugh
Instead,
… I try not to cry

Dear John, (Instrumental).mp3

Dear John,   .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A former police officer berated me. He thought it would make him superior by laughing at me. I wished I could have laughed back at him… but, he made me want to cry.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em D Em9 C / C Am Em
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderWalla Walla, Washington

LYRICS
Walla Walla, Washington
Get ready to surf
Walla Walla, Washington
Saltwater over turf
Ummmmm…
Now the bottom
Over my head
Turf’s the riverbed
Desalination
Before starvation
First it will make you mad
Then, you’ll wish you never had
Think I need freshwater to drink
Or I…
… am going to die!

Walla Walla, Washington.mp3

Walla Walla, Washington Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about the rising sea level.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E F / E F E Am / Dm Am / E Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderHow Is Your Moment?

LYRICS
Long ago
You had to dial your phone
… twist a parking meter
Learn to push the coin return
Earn to learn
Learn to earn
Know forego
Stagnation
Into the future roam
Fortune on the pinnacle
Watch it teeter
Watch it totter
Teeter totter
Don’t let nostalgia
Get to ya
The good ole times
Of five and dimes
Weren’t so fine
All the time
Long ago
You had to listen to the radio
To know what you didn’t know
Know forego
Imagination
Forage the future
Innovate
Create so much more

How Is Your Moment.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords:
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in the doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderAlpha To Omega

LYRICS
Alpha to omega?
Creator debater
Which came first — egg or chicken
When and where did life begin
Why cross the road… are you chicken?
When and where did life begin
Alpha to omega?
Creator debater
Is it time to grow a spine
Do you find slithering just fine
Or is it time to grow a spine
Leave misconstrued religion behind
Alpha to omega?
Creator debater
A dinosaur learned to soar
No longer was a bird absurd
Omnivores like a wild bore
Revolution evolution have you heard… herd… heard herd

Alpha To Omega.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Am Em / C Am Em / F C Am / Am E Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in the doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse