bookmark_borderCrunch

Songwriting About a Snow Storm
Songwriting About a Snow Storm

Crunch.mp3

LYRICS
The ground underneath my feet
Crunches

If crutches are in your clutches
Won’t help like they could
When watching people clasping
Please help like we should

Instructed to be productive
And, with thy gifts give
Productive to the instructed
Long let quality live

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C

90 beats per minute / 60’s Rock

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

This is a song about being productive… even when you’re unexpectedly shut-in… like in a snow storm… at the same time, giving consideration to the most vulnerable of your neighbors.

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDancing Feet

Recording in the Studio, West Chester, PA
Recording in the Studio, West Chester, PA

Dancing Feet.mp3

LYRICS
Those dancing feet
Taking over me
Those dancing feet
Obvious to see
Those dancing feet
Take over… complete

Swing your partner round and round
Let your dangle dangle down

They’re such a treat
Your dancing feet
A touch so sweet
Your dancing feet
Keep the beat
Stoke heart’s heat

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — B A
D B

178 beats per minute — cowboy boogie.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWith A Reggae Backbeat

With A Reggae Backbeat.mp3

LYRICS
When you think
About it
What a trip

Embark your mental ship
Connect with the humane orbit
You’re our missing link
Are our missing link

If we could just get in synch

Computer Midi Hook-up
Computer Midi Hook-up

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am Ab
G6 Am7(11)

Reggae groove at 142 beats per minute.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Knew Know

Studio Recording
Studio Recording

The Knew Know.mp3

LYRICS
I bet ya didn’t know
If you only knew
Who knows what you’d do
Do you?

Is it the kind of thing
That’d make you sing
Is it the kind of thing
You can bring?

If what’s new
Is you know
You knew
What’s new
Ya know?

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — EM7aug FM7

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderIn A Cloud

In A Cloud.mp3

LYRICS
For crying out loud
I just found
When I look around
I’m in a cloud
All this fog
Causes vision to clog

I musta missed all this mist
In some sort of fate twist
Easy to resist
Seeing what exists

Rape, murder and hate
Before it’s too late
Let the light shine through
And reveal what is true

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — D7sus4 G7sus4 C9 Dm7(11)

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderJustice Delayed

LYRICS
Justice delayed is justice denied
When it’s implied, it’s applied
Justice denied

Justice delayed
Justice dismayed
Justice denied

Black hat
White hat
What side?
Justice delayed is justice denied

It might be easy to say
A you just sit on your swing and sway
“That’s nice… justice”
Until they put you behind the bars
The accounts that might just be too bizarre
For you to realize
Treatment by your government…
You might put into size
It might not be quite right

Justice delayed is justice denied

Justice Delayed.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — EM7aug EmM7 C Cm

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOne-handed Bareback Rigging

INSTRUMENTAL

One-hand Bareback Rigging.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — E G

Daniel — Guitar

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDreamour

Dreamour.mp3

LYRICS
Please tell me what would you like it to be about?

Please tell me what would you like your life to be about
Can you answer without doubt
What would you like your life to be about?

In and out and in and out and in and out…
What would you like your life to be about?

Be the creator of your landscape
Shape the ape
Envision your vision
Control your dream
Control the scene (less obscene)

Imagine you’re a train engineer
Engineer your train
Engineer where you want to go
Because you know where you want to go
Go!

Engineer,
You can steer clear
You can be aware
Aware everywhere
You can go where you want to go
You know

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Ebm Ebm7

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTouch Down

Touch Down (Music Video).mp4

LYRICS
When we touch down
Probably won’t stick ’round

There’s no time for bickering
There’s no time for heckling
Much rather be singing
Phrases that praises living (loving)

When we touch down
A quick stop in town

There’s no time for snickering
There’s no time for belittling
Much rather be singing
Phrases that praises living (loving)

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Am Em C

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.

From the album Rude-ill-mentally
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSpoon Fed / Hand That Feeds

Spoon Fed / Hand That Feeds.mp3

LYRICS
Please don’t spoon feed me
I beg
I cry on my knees
I’m down on my knees

Please don’t spoon feed me
I don’t want to bite…
I don’t want to cut off the nose
I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds
I don’t want to cut off the nose to spite….

Please don’t spoon feed me
I gotta fight the urge to bite
The hand that feeds me

Please don’t spoon feed me

’cause you see
Inevitably there will be a jerk of the knee

I have to plea
Please don’t spoon feed me

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Gb Ab Bb
Db Eb

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Thought Experiments
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Count: 11-12-13 14:15.16

The Count.mp3

LYRICS
Let me count the ways
To escape the days of the maze
1,2,3
Move simply

Free the mind from daze
Rise-up above the haze
1,2,3
See clearly

Seconds turn to minutes… minutes to hours… hours to days… days to months… months to years
‘fore your mind clears
11-12-13
14:15.16

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — G
C F G
Am C
G

The song was written November 11, 2013 at 2:15PM and 16 seconds (11-12-13 14:15.16)

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Thought Experiments
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMind Expansion Until Failure

INSTRUMENTAL

Mind Expansion Until Failure.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F# F#m D#m D#sus4 A#Maug A#Mm7 D#dim

Daniel — Keyboards

From the album Thought Experiments
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDown To Earth

Down To Earth (Singer / Songwriter Video Version).mp4

Down To Earth.mp3

Down To Earth Songwriting at Everhart Park
Down To Earth Songwriting at Everhart Park

LYRICS
God, I’d like to thank you
True blue
Thank you

It’s such a nifty trick
Creating habitat
Imagine that
Habitat

Rather carrot than stick
Hope I’m not too think
To appreciate it

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords Guitar — Capo 1
A G A
A D A G A

Keyboard — Ebm Absus4 Ebsus4

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

From the album Thought Experiments
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSky Blue Philosophy

Sky Blue Philosophy (Singer / Songwriter Video Version).mp4

Sky Blue Philosophy.mp3

LYRICS
Why is the sky blue
And the grass green

Do you know what I mean
Do you?

Is the blue seen by you
The same as seen
In my scene

Do you know what I mean
Do you?

Does the truth hold true
All living being

Do you know what I mean
Do you?

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — E E+F#
D

This song is about philosophy and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Remarks on Colour (German: Bemerkungen über die Farben) is a collection of notes by Ludwig Wittgenstein on Goethe’s Theory of Colours. The work consists of Wittgenstein’s reactions to Goethe’s thinking, and an attempt to clarify the use of language about colour. Believing that philosophical puzzles about colour can only be resolved through attention to the involved language-games, Wittgenstein distinguishes between the science of optics, as developed by Newton, and Goethe’s phenomenology of colour, remarking that:
“Goethe’s theory of the origin of the spectrum isn’t a theory of its origin that has proved unsatisfactory; it is really not a theory at all. Nothing can be predicted by means of it. It is, rather, a vague schematic outline, of the sort we find in James’s psychology. There is no experimentum crucis for Goethe’s theory of colour.”

Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, PA, United States of America.)

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

From the album Thought Experiments
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderAge

Age (Singer / Songwriter Video Version).mp4

Age.mp3

Songwriting at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA
Songwriting at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA

LYRICS
22,000 days
They slip away
In so many ways

Not a lot?
Take advantage of what we’ve got

The world stage
For our plays
Watching youth age

Not a lot?
Take advantage of what we’ve got

For sure
Mature
Can write a beautiful page

Not a lot?
Take advantage of what we’ve got

ABOUT THIS SONG
Guitar Chords — C C+F Am
G Am

Keyboard Chords — G Gb G9

A typical lifetime is 22,000 days.  The Moody Blues wrote a song about it, too.

Made in America (West Chester, Chester County, PA, United States of America.)

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

From the album Thought Experiments
By Daniel Brouse