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_borderEquals Rainbow

Writing the Song = Rainbow in West Chester, PA
Writing the Song = Rainbow in West Chester, PA

LYRICS
Take some blue
Take some yellow
Don’t forget violet
Do you know what I mean?
Take some green
(or mixing yellow and blue will do)
Color a rainbow

Don’t forget violet

If you read the directions, it calls for red
Or, you can always make do by adding some blue
If you forget the violet

(Aren’t-choo glad you got orange?)

If you’re bright
Take white light
With the rhythm of a prism
Separate the aggregate
And, you know you’ll get a rainbow
= rainbow

Like God make a promise such as this
No harm to humans I wish

Equals Rainbow.mp3

Equals Rainbow Song — How to Play the Guitar.mp4

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ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 2
E / G / A / D / E

Written and recorded November 12 and 13, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Songs To Make Babies March
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCascades (The Fall of the Waterfall)

Songwriting In The Cascades, BIacksburg, Virginia
Songwriting In The Cascades, BIacksburg, Virginia

LYRICS
The quite chill of an autumn morning
The lichen might consider quite trite
But, the human glare finds it worthwhile to stare
As the fluid cascades amongst the solid
The sunlight cascades over the mountain top
Spilling colors of every hue

Any man must stop to ponder what it is we did
Every man must stop to wonder the wonder if we stop
Look what progress did to the fish
Look what our standard of living has lost
Look what it is we do
Maybe we should be careful for what we wish
Open our eyes. Open our ears. Heed the warning…
Before the waterfalls fall

ABOUT THE SONG
Dm
Am (slide down an octave while strumming)
Am / C

Written on October 20, 2012 at the Cascades and Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Motivated by The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment.

From the album Have Camera. Will Travel
by Daniel Brouse