bookmark_borderPhantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria.mp3

LYRICS
Dance euphoria
Satisfaction
Guarantee

Phantasmagoria
Attraction
Between you and me

ABOUT THIS SONG
“Physical activities, from sprinting to ballet, also release endorphins, brain chemicals that promote satisfaction, euphoria, and high pain tolerance.” — Psychology Today

Chords — C Cm
Bb

80 Beats Per Minute / Rave

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Music Makers
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBallad Salad

Ballad Salad.mp3

LYRICS
Toss it up
A ballad salad
Breakfast, lunch or sup
Ballad salad

Musical hors d’oeuvres
Ensures
Soul food spirit fed
“Our daily bread”

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — CM7

71 Beats Per Minute / Electric Piano Ballad

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Music Makers
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSold For An Earthling

Sold For An Earthling.mp3

LYRICS
This thing called living
What’s the price of life
Sold for an earthling

Imagine a combustion engine
Foreboding our exploding
Exhaustion
Of civilization

Go, daddy-o, go

The drone’s not alone
Drop the bomb
And the tomb
Will rest your bone

Sold…
For an earthling
I’ve been told
Before I grow old
To love living

Thank you
I do

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F#

130 Beats Per Minute / Rock

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Theremin

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Music Makers
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWords And Chords

Words And Chords.mp3

LYRICS
Don’t know if the words will come
Don’t know if the chords will come
Take a little magic
Pray it won’t be static
Words and chords, Oh, Lord

Where do the words come from
Where will the chords come from
With some help from above
To the rhythm of love
Words and chords, Oh, Lord

Thank God the words come
Thank God the chords come
She took a little magic
And, it wasn’t static
Words and chords, Oh, Lord

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Em B
A B
Em

150 Beats Per Minute / Oldie Ballad

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Music Makers
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLiving A Dream

Living A Dream.mp3

LYRICS
I’m living a dream
One with a light beam

When sleeping I’m dreaming
That I’m living
A dream
When awake I don’t forsake
The dream
I’m living

Life will pick up steam
When you realize your dream
Believe in what you can do
And, you will, too

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C#sus4
F#add9

136 Beats Per Minute / Serenade

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMake Love, Not War

Make Love, Not War.mp3

LYRICS
What do you say
We lay
Down our arms
And make love
Turn off the killing alarms
Be free of
Turn on getting turned on
Spawn
A lush crush

For sure
Make love, not war
Love more, more, more
Make love, not war

Hate hate negate
More love more more
Lay your love spoor
Make love not war

ABOUT THIS SONG
Make love, not war is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since. The “make love” part of the slogan often referred to the practice of free love that was growing among the American youth who denounced marriage as a tool for those who supported war and favored the traditional capitalist culture.

The phrase’s origins are unclear; some credit Louis Abolafia. Radical activists Penelope and Franklin Rosemont helped to popularize the phrase by printing thousands of “Make Love, Not War” buttons at the Solidarity Bookshop in Chicago, Illinois and distributing them at the Mother’s Day Peace March in 1965. They were the first to print the slogan.

In April 1965, at a Vietnam demonstration in Eugene, Oregon, Diane Newell Meyer, then a senior at the University of Oregon, pinned a handwritten note on her sweater reading “Let’s make love, not war”, thus marking the beginning of the popularity of this phrase. A picture of Meyer wearing the slogan was printed in the Eugene Register-Guard and then a related article turned up in the New York Times on May 9, 1965. When the slogan was used in California in 1967, then Governor Ronald Reagan joked to protesters “Those guys [the protesters] look like they can’t make either of both”.

Chords — C Bb
F C Bb C

120 Beats Per Minute / 8 Beat Dance

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderShoveling Cement

Shoveling Cement.mp3

LYRICS
Now I know what She meant
By shoveling cement
My ribs taking a ribbing
Funny bone ain’t laughing
Lungs gasping
Blood sugar crashing
Exhaustion ain’t forgiving
Even the most miniscule muscle aching

Forsaking
The lazy mode

On the unchained gang road
Lifting a heavy load
On the unchained gang road
Unlocking spiritual code

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Dm9 Dsus4
F#

114 Beats Per Minute / Slow 16 Beat

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRe-rendezvous

Re-rendezvous.mp3

LYRICS
So, grateful we get to say hello
Again
More than you’ll ever know
Saying
Raise our voice
On high
Let’s try
To voice our choice

Re-rendezvous
With you

So thankful we get to know hello
Dig up from below
Reach for your halo

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Dm Bb

144 Beats Per Minute / Pop Rock

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Theremin

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderPound Of Feathers

Pound Of Feathers.mp3

LYRICS
Which weighs more
A pound of bricks
Or a pound of feathers?
Which would you rather
Fall on your head?

Which ways more?

What’s in store
Not just for kicks
You made your bed
Your folklore
Will be the fix
Let your heart be led

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F Dm Em7 F
Em7

140 Beats Per Minute / 16 Beat Shuffle

Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderImpending Gleam

Impending Gleam Music Video.mp4

Impending Gleam.mp3

LYRICS
Polar vortex, clipper or nor’ easter
Take it as another kick to the keister
Or consider the splendor of the impending gleam
Know what I mean?
Snow — what I mean

Veil the frail in fractal white crystal
As to the blind man’s Braille
The third eye’s sail
See it all

Ensure splendid grandeur for their future

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C Am
add G D Bb

Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers, Guitar

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDark Might


Dark Might Music Video.mp4

Dark Might Part 1.mp3

LYRICS
Find beauty in the light
And find beauty in the night
With the dark comes might
With the light
Comes sight

Duality insight

I love the winter
She brings spring
What goes from a splinter
Turns to an equinox thing

You can’t fight the need for light
You can’t fight the need for night

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C Bb

140 Beats Per Minute / 16 beat shuffle

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Theremin

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTrue Love

True Love.mp3

LYRICS
Do you think it’s about time
I’m your valentine
Seems everybody forgets about you
And how love is true

The creator of love
Reign down from above
The curator of love
Giving grief a lovin’ shove

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — G F
C G F

124 Beats Per Minute / Funk

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLove Potent

Love Potent.mp3

LYRICS
Get less confused
Get infused with the love potion
Blonde, brunette and red head
A rainbow spread

Laissez faire
Love is in the air

Come light the fuse
Infuse the notion of a love potion
Straight, curls or in dread
A rainbow spread

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Eb Bb G

120 Beats Per Minute / Latin Fusion
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThat

That.mp3

LYRICS
As a matter of fact,
Why did you go and do that?
Serendipity is where it’s at
The ability to enact
As a matter of fact

analytically, anonymity, authenticity, connectivity, creativity, credibility, culpability, disability, durability, electricity, equanimity, euphemistically, expressivity, fallibility, flammability, gullibility, immobility, inability, inactivity, incivility, infertility, instability, intrinsically, liability, miscibility, multiplicity, municipally, objectivity, plausibility, politically, portability, productivity, readability, realistically, receptivity, reflexivity, sensibility, sensitivity, serendipitous, statistically, subjectivity, suitability, synchronicity, unanimity, uncritically, visibility

ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — E
A G
B G A E

146 Beats Per Minute / Soul

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.

From the album Mystery
By Daniel Brouse