Tag: dying

bookmark_borderThe Damn Damage

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LYRICS
The damn damage
At any age
A clean page
From damn damage
Older, wiser
The sage
Life’s miser
Engage
Helping the blind to see
To be all you can be
Helping the lame to walk
The same for the mute to talk
To be all we can be
Damn damage free
Trying to cure what ails you
Trying to aid what fails you
Trying to do what we can do
Damage to zero
Trying the postponement of dying
A moment meant for living
Long as I”m living…
Going to keep on trying

The Damn Damage.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em Bm / E A E A B7 / F G C
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

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

bookmark_borderDrastic Trick

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LYRICS
If your best trick’s drastic
Irony of a one-trick-pony
Ain’t that funny
When it cuts ya to the quick
Chorus:
As I’m watching the fish jumping
Head scratching as I’m thinking
Which am I… fish or fly
Which will die… swallow or fry

Can I only face the surface
Or am I willing to dive deep
If we don’t outpace the human race
Ya won’t even hear a peep
(chorus)
Bold to assume both I’ll consume?
Please remain king of the food chain
Yet no matter how hard I try
My know-how’s gonna die
(chorus)
No sense to weep. No sense to cry.
Distraught knot?
Distraught not!

[The fish eats the fly
Then both are eaten by I
We’re all going to die
Would you rather be swallowed or fried?]

Drastic Trick.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em Em7 F#m7 / B7 A7 Em
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Dead (But Not Gone) Song

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LYRICS
Will I recognize you
After we breakthrough
When we reside on the other side
Will we begin again
Starting already knowing
Wondering when the outside we’re in
May the blackness of the heavens
Turn to pure white light
Soul is soaked in safe havens
All is justified just right

Dead but not gone
Playing a long song
Through the light of the night… an eternal dawn
In the light incites
Your light is in my sites
I know I’ll recognize your glow
In the light insights
Your light is in my sights
I know I’ll recognize your glow

The Dead (But Not Gone) Song.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: A9 AM7 E / C D E
Recording: 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

The Dead But Not Gone Song (Alt. Version).mp3

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMark 1:15

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“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near.”

LYRICS
Any way to say if you’ll be here today
Any way to know when you’re going to go?
We made the bed we’re going to sleep in
Our best friends and closest of kin

Will I sense that my time has come
Give me a chance before I’ve come undone
Rather dance with crazies then pushing up daisies
All too soon we’re howling at the moon
Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death
Not choosing the path of the devil’s wrath
If She’s calling me to the Promised Land
When it’s time to come home, I understand

Mark 1:15.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A tribute for Mark Watson.

Style: Folk Rock
Chords: A DM7 / E C A [G E A / C G A]
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOn The Road To Styx

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LYRICS
Sailing down that endless stretch of highway
To my home in the sky on Promised Day

Shifting through the gears
Overcoming fears
By-passing the fool
Runnin’ on love’s fuel
Sailing down that endless stretch of highway
To my home in the sky on Promised Day

Learning to thrive
On overdrive
Always strive
To stay alive
Understand?
On the road to the Promised Land
Sailing down that endless stretch of highway
To my home in the sky on Promised Day

On The Road To Styx.mp4

On The Road To Styx.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental
Chords: E A / G D E7 E
Recording: 8-track

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Ride Cymbal, Bass

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

A song about life and death.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Fall Of Fall

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LYRICS
The turning of the leaves on the trees
One believes they do die
Released from life they fly through the sky
Waving in the wind… bye-bye

From green to gold and red
Turning to brown … turning dead
’till Spring when “born again” is heard said
The scene turning green instead

Meant they’re dormant ’til Spring
Another year another ring
Then the green scene they’ll bring
Spring back in Spring
Singing springing back in Spring

The Fall Of Fall Music Video.mp4

The Fall Of Fall.mp3

About The Song
Chords
Am C E
Am E

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fall Into Place
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMy Living Will

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LYRICS
If I am unresponsive for more than a year,
I fear… The End wont’ be near

Now, that I know what I know
Would you mind hitting replay, again?
Must’a been the first few times through
I didn’t know what I thought I knew… then

I believe I’ve lived before
I believe I might live some more
Take me in the woods and shoot me ‘tween the eyes
And, set my soul free for me

Don’t put me in a home
Or make me live alone
Just shoot me ‘tween the eyes

Betwixt between

Hopin’ my soul will live again,
So please next o’ kin
Once you realize
Shoot me ‘tween the eyes

ps. While I’m still alive and you realize
I wish to be set free
Please allow me
To set your mind at ease
Please, please put me out of my misery

My Living Will Music Video.mp4

 

My Living Will Recorded
My Living Will Recorded

ABOUT THE SONG
E G A D E

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals

From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOle Grim

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Ole Grim Music Video.mp4

Ole Grim Recording Studio Session
Ole Grim Recording Studio Session

Ole Grim.mp3

LYRICS
Can ya tell me what you’re gonna do
When mean ole Grim comes coming after you
Who’s gonna be your brother’s keeper
After you’re the harvest of ole Mr. Reaper

What will become of your soul
Once your body’s not whole

He ain’t fickle with that sharp sickle
Like the slice of knife with his deadly scythe
Brings’ an end with no mend to your precious life
The End — when the flow won’t even trickle

ABOUT THE SONG
E D A E
E/F# Eadd9

Daniel — Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Flaming Napalm Globs
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBones Fall

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Songwriting in West Chester, PA
Songwriting in West Chester, PA

LYRICS
Again and again with the sin, sin, sin
Then say it’s only true if I go through you?
Don’t you think Jesus had a dog, too
Who did either of them have to go through

Don’t try to save me

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
All good dogs go to heaven
8, 9, 10 then 11
All good children go to heaven

Don’t try to save me

Over and over with brimstone scented sulfur
Saying hell’s the only viable offer

Don’t try to save me

Don’t you think Jesus HAS a dog, too
How did they manage to get on through?

Don’t try to save me
Don’t wanna enslave me

Hold my hand into the Promised Land
Where the trees grow tall… and from the sky… bones fall
… bones will fall

Bones Fall Dog Song Music Video.mp4

Bones Fall (Alternative).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em Em+c#
A Em
A D G

A song inspired by the passing of the family pet. It’s about doing your best at doing what’s right. The day my dog died a bunch of religious zealots tried to save me. So, if Jesus is the only way to heaven, how does a dog get into heaven. Even more puzzling, how does Jesus get into heaven?

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Timed
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe High Road

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LYRICS
The milk keeps on spilling
The world keeps on spinning
Well, there’s no sense crying
Just ’cause we’re on the path to dyin’

The child keeps on starving
No one is caring
Might be time for crying
’cause they’re on the road to dying

The people keep on breeding
Selfish condescending
Well, it’s time for trying
Opening our eyes and realizing

We’re all on the path to dying

The High Road.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 2
Em
G Em
D6 Esus Em

Written and recorded on the streets of West Chester, PA.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Nuance Of Nuisance
by Daniel Brouse