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LYRICS
Why does the earthling find it so puzzling
After all, it’s hard for all to claim ignorance
To culpability
More like arrogance
To responsibility
Who is to blame
Duckin’ the shame
The acceptability of culpability
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Chords
Dm
C Dm
110 Beats Per Minute / Hip-Hop House Rock
1-track live stereo recording
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and a Computer
From the album You Are Getting Warmer
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
Did you see the calamity
Of the puzzle monkey tree?
Oh, you know what’s puzzling me
Unseen inevitability
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
The way we spew our debris
Like we’re the champs of society
Coming back a little too fast
Gonna kick me in the ass
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
In the midst of demon fits
Gonna smash it all to bits
Kiss of death on our lips
Human induced apocalypse
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
B E Am
Am D7
A verse inspired by the wildfires in Chile burning in the forests of 1,000 old puzzle monkey trees. (At least the government of Chile recognizes it as the effects of human induced climate change.) Another verse is inspired by the ISIS destruction of ancient artifacts in Syria using sledgehammers and bulldozers. I guess you could say the song is about human induced destruction of everything.
Araucaria araucana — commonly called the monkey puzzle tree
The origin of the popular English language name ‘monkey puzzle’ derives from its early cultivation in Britain in about 1850, when the species was still very rare in gardens and not widely known. Sir William Molesworth, the proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, one of them – the noted barrister and Benthamist Charles Austin remarked, “It would puzzle a monkey to climb that”. [Because it takes a 1,000 years for them to grow, young specimens are tiny.] As the species had no existing popular name, first ‘monkey puzzler’, then ‘monkey puzzle’ stuck. — Wikipedia
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album You Are Getting Warmer
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Sorry, but… I gotta go
Bye-bye
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
A C Em
Vocals sung through the hole in a Martin guitar.
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
INSTRUMENTALS
ABOUT THE SONG
War E Eadd9
E7 Em hammer on G#
G E
Peace C Am
C+g
Daniel — Guitar
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Would your rather die
Or would you rather fly
Is it silly askin’ why?
’cause I heard when you die you fly
A miracle… something special
Flight of a newborn angel
Would you rather die
To reach the promised land in the sky?
’cause I heard heaven’s on Earth this birth
Would you rather die or rather fly
I’ve heard your can do both
(Why risk the wrath)
But ya know what… you might find out the hard way
’cause I heard say
Heaven’s on this Earth
Heaven’s of this birth
Ya know? Why not come out of the shadow?
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F# F#m D#m C#sus4
123 Beats Per Minute / Trip Hop
1-track stereo extemporaneous recording
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and Computer
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Aren’t happy with what you’ve got
Ohhh… why not?
Enough of the hysteric
It’s making us sick
Enough being hysterical
Making us all ill
Things didn’t turn out like you planned
Now revenge you demand
Enough of the hysteric
It’s making us sick
Enough being hysterical
Making us all ill
You’re gonna get us all hysterical
Hysteric… all
ABOUT THE SONG
Dm Dsus4 Dm9
121 Beats Per Minute / Electric Pop
1-track stereo extemporaneous recording
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and Computer
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Are you afraid of the dark?
Ignite a brain spark
Why be afraid of what you don’t know
Why not let to grow
The point you may miss
Ignorance ain’t bliss
Why be afraid of what you don’t know
Give it a chance to grow
Harbor hatred for your foe?
Why not let them go
Why be afraid of what you don’t know
Give love a chance to glow
ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 2
Em A
C A E
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
On The Seventh Day Music Video.mp4
LYRICS
When you’re sick and tired… you can’t take anymore
When the thick and thin… you just can’t endure
Look above for some love
(Genesis 2:1)
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
Raise your voice and praise the choice to instill your freewill
Though, not in boasts… rather joy for the holy ghost
(Luke 10:30)
Persecuted and wronged for doing what’s right
Dread being stripped naked, beaten, and left half dead
Find insight in the light
(Hebrews 6:4)
Once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift — uplift
Partake of the Holy Spirit and taste the powers of the age to come
Riches beyond your wildest dreams and then some
(Jude 1:21)
Keep yourselves in the love as you wait for the mercy
The light will shine… shine o’ so fine… you shall see
It’ll work out fine… be heavenly
(Daniel 6:27)
Delivered and rescued I see signs and wonders in heaven and on earth
Under threat of alarms and sirens, delivered Daniel from the power of the lions
Now is the hour of rebirth
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Em A7
Bm7 Esus Em
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
INSTRUMENTALS
ABOUT THE SONGS
Ebb — A A7 A+g
C D A
Em A Em G A
Flow — (notes) C F hammer off to E
C A C G C E C D B slide up to C
(chords) C F
Daniel — Guitar
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
Strangest Thing Music Video.mp4
LYRICS
Isn’t it just the strangest thing
When it’s snowing in Spring
And there’s no birdies to sing
(All the while the solar eclipse supermoon equinox rocks)
Isn’t it just the strangest thing
When the East Coast is freezing
And the West Coast is frying
(Expressing some sort-a bi-polar polar express)
Isn’t it just the strangest thing
When California is drying
As the Texans weather flooding
(SXSW prepares for the test)
Isn’t it just the strangest thing
When the sun is shinning
While cloudless rain ‘s a fallin’
(Enough cosmic flow to bring on a rainbow)
ABOUT THE SONG
G C D
Em
A song motivated by severe weather events including a snow storm on the first day of spring and “Emergency crews at SXSW ready to move in case of flooding.”
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
There’s probably no need to panic
Certainly someone’s gonna catch it?
They’ll switch the panic switch
Flip the switch to which?
I offer off… or?
All else is nor. (‘fur sure)
It’s probably gonna work out alright
Humans couldn’t really be the blight?
Everyone says they’re apt to adapt
Where is that secret kept at?
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A D G A
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
Supermoon Equinox Total Eclipse of the Sun.mp3
LYRICS
This band I’m in starts playing a different tune
Gonna meet you on the darkside o’ the supermoon
Supermoon equinox total eclipse of the sun
An astronomical threesome… threesum
Our solar power will be going off grid
Joking? Noooo… I don’t kid
Gotta love the natural alignment event
Inspiration… from the heavens sent
Drop your knickers a lil’ quicker! Let it bloom!
Gonna meet you on the lightside o’ the supermoon
ABOUT THE SONG
Dm Dm7
106 Beats Per Minute / Fast Big Band
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and a Computer Controller
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
Death Defying Acts Music Video.mp4
LYRICS
Ozone in the air we’re breathing
It’s death defying!
Alone in perceiving
These acts are death defying?
More dangerous for us
Than tightrope walking
Or chainsaw juggling
The pathogens we are drinking
It’s death defying!
Alone in perceiving
These acts are death defying?
More dangerous for us
Than sword swallowing
Or cliff diving
The temperature we’re increasing
….
More dangerous for us
Than mine sweeping
Or racecar driving
The glaciers we’re melting
….
More dangerous for us
Than base jumping
Or atomic bombing
More dangerous for us?
There’s nothing more dangerous than us
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Esus E E/D
C D E
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
There goes another instance
Of being a victim of circumstance
Whoever wrote Murphy’s Law
Charge ’em with greatest crime of all time
Whoever passed Murphy’s Law
Committed the greatest crime of them all
They have made it so it won’t be long
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”
They’ve created the worst baggage
Perpetuating pessimism with an old adage
Halt! Holt did put it quite simply
“Sufficient stress can hardly be
… laid on the advantages of simplicity”
Decreasing dependence on being lucky
As the Boy Scouts declared —
Be prepared! Be prepared!
’cause they really didn’t lie
When they said, “Sooner of later… you’re gonna die”
But, in the meantime I’d rather choose
To hear some more of the good news
So until that day I’ll just pray
The old adage keeps at bay… ’till a ripe old age
Now, concerning this here song
About anything that can go wrong going wrong
Murphy’s Law must be more weak than strong
When applied to itself, it too goes wrong
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Asus A7
C A7
Asus A7
Asus D
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Flaming Napalm Globs
by Daniel Brouse
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
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E G A D E
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album Death Defying Acts
by Daniel Brouse