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bookmark_borderBe Freed

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Be Freed.mp3

LYRICS
Which came first, the chicken or the egg…
I beg?
Why did the chicken cross the road…
Please unload?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

If a tree falls in a vacant forest, does it make a sound…
Please resound?
Knock, knock! Who’s there…
Are you aware?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

When first come last and last first…
Will you thirst?
At the crossroads: the devil, your soul…
What’s the toll?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

African or European, your sparrow…
If asked to narrow?
Would you bet the sun to set, yet…
Still stand still?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

Be Freed Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: A G / C Em A
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHard Of Hearing?

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LYRICS
Are you hard of hearing?
I can see where this conversation’s steering
Where you’re leading
My ears are bleeding!

Up to my ears in __it!
“It doesn’t really matter”
Couldn’t get much sadder
Maybe we could listen
To the position
Of reason….
’tis the season
To S.O.S.? Confess
Save our souls
Before your next die rolls

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Em E Em7 E7 Esus4 E7(11)
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBangkok Time

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LYRICS
Rock the clock like Bangkok (+12 hours)
Ya ought ‘a Jakarta (+12)
Come on, Boy, like Hanoi (+12)
You know you can even go to Tokyo? (+14)
Living in a time zone
Where I’m prone
To run fast
Living in a time zone
Where mind’s blown
Free at last

Want to start slow? Try Oslo (+6)
Or way down in Freetown (+5)
Time flies by? Try Dubai (+9)
As for me, I’m rarin’ like a Yarenian (+17)
Living in a time zone
Where I’m prone
To run fast
Living in a time zone
Where mind’s blown
Free at last

Still standing still in Guayaquil? (same time)
Or minus a few in Honolulu (-5)
Come on Ketchup to Hamburg (+6)
Gonna do what I can do in Katmandu (+10:45)
Living in a time zone
Where I’m prone
To run fast
Living in a time zone
Where mind’s blown
Free at last

Bangkok Time.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about time zones compared to my relative position in the Eastern Standard Time (EST). [subtract an hour for Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)]  Inspired by a friend who runs about 12 hours fast.

Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: G A G E / B7 A G E / E A G E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSetting The Sights

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LYRICS
Setting the sights to where we are
Because where we are…
… isn’t that far
The closest star —
The sun?
Done.
Setting the sights to where we are
Look! You’re really not far
From being the star
Guess gravity gave the sway
’cause look! We’re on our way
Suppose we’ve already been
Travelin’
In
Feel the pull china shop bull?
Our sights are set…
Not that far
Just about where we are
Prayin’ the orbit holds “up” a bit
’round n’ ’round in the same ole habit

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Electronic
Chords: G F6 / C F G; 118 BPM Slow Rock and Handbag
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBuilding A Bridge

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LYRICS
Building a bridge
Using a rocket ship
Going to make heaven
A real short trip
Countdown: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
Begin
Don’t burn it, baby
Save the chance of “maybe”
Nope
Don’t give up the hope
To enhance
[Interlude: build a musical bridge here]

Building a bridge
Over the unravel
Go out on a ledge
Nouveau-travel
Don’t burn bridges, baby
Give love a chance
Hold on to maybe
A chance to enhance

Building A Bridge Part 2.mp3

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Electronic
Chords: Asus4 G6 / A7 A Asus / A G; 8 Beat Rock and Heavy Metal
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTo Know

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LYRICS
For now there’s comfort “to know”
No stopping “to know”
For now, it’s come to me
We’re free
To know “to know”
Can you turn up the volume…
Some?
Let the riff run
Free to know
Free to see
Free to know
Up to me
To see
“To know”
To be

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Electronic
Chords: Em / Gsus4 Fsus4 Emsus4 Dmsus4 Csus4 Dmsus4 Emsus4
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderInto the Light of the Night

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LYRICS
The result of self-defeating
Is a mental beating
So why not give yourself a lift
With a soulful soul full of rift/riff
What do you say…
We let the music play?
Soulful soul full of riff/rift
Giving the gift
Of a fresh lick
The gift of music

Victim of mental beating
Don’t let it be self-defeating
So why not give yourself a lift
With a soulful soul full of rift/riff
What do you say…
We let the music play?
Soulful soul full of riff/rift
Giving the gift
Of a fresh lick
The gift of music
… let the music play
All day
Into the light of the night
Into the delight of all night

Into the Light of the Night.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: G F# E / D6 E
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLip-sink

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Hyper-terrestrial

presents
“Lip-sink”

A sonic experiment transcending space and time.
Instrumental music: Korg PS60 Keyboard, Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard, MiniNova Synthesizer, MicroKorg, Casio WK3500, Korg N364, Guitars, Drums

bookmark_borderAt The Ball (with a Drunken Sailor)

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LYRICS
Yes, I’m having a ball
Aren’t we all?
’cause it runs the whole spectrum
Heave ho! And a bottle of rum
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
The most president public servant
Savant-less idiot-savant
Nooo… savant has not
His brilliance is in ignorance?
Redeeming quality?
… I can not see….
Being nothing in his being
It’s hard believing
Of his brain conceiving

Yes, I’m having a ball
Aren’t we all?
’cause it runs the whole spectrum
Heave ho! And a bottle of rum
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Put him to bed with the Captain’s daughter*
Hit him in the head with leather n’ lead
Give us relief from the commander and chief
For I foresee mutiny!
As for you, do you, too?
You can count on me
It’s plain to see… in need of a mutiny
(If he walks the plank, it’s you I’ll thank.)

At The Ball (with a Drunken Sailor).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
* A captain’s daughter is a leather and lead weapon similar to a blackjack.

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: Em add4 Em add Bb Em Em add2 C Am
Recording: 1-track digital stereo / original take
Vocals, Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderSteamroller

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LYRICS
Under the steamroller
How much more can you take
Flat as a pancake
Under the steamroller

Run over… bulldozer
Causing bones to break
Is life really at stake
Run over by a bulldozer

Do you know what I mean
A destructive scene
Environmental shred
You should’ve seen what I’ve seen
Streets paved mean
Multiplying the dead
Until somebody said:
So, what if we sow
A reap that we want to keep
Hey, what do you know
Maybe our love runs deep
Picked up by a Samaritan
Thank her again and again
Goodwill can move a mountain
And let the light shine in

Do you know what I mean
A peaceful scene
Environmental bred
You should’ve seen what I’ve seen
Streets paved with a sheen
Multiplying loaves of bread

Steamroller.mp3

Steamroller Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E / G A E / A E B7
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBetter Off

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LYRICS
As the end draws near
Does one start to fear
“I might be better off dead”
Are you ever better off dead
… ever better off dead?

Have you ever heard it said
“It’s all in your head”?
Have you ever gone to bed
Looking forward to what’s ahead

As it gets near the end
Does one’s life depend
On being better off dead
Are you ever better off dead
… ever better off dead?

Once the children are sleeping
The dreaming is sweeping
On the road to keeping
Peacekeeping

When you’re on your last leg
Already kicked the keg
Have you become such a dread
Wishing for “better off dead”?
Are you ever better off dead
… ever better off dead?

Better Off.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Am Em Am / Am Dsus2/E / C Em Am / C G C G D / D Db Am
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWhat’s That?

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LYRICS
What’s that? Runnin’ round naked
Suspect hard to neglect
Quaking… foundation shaked
Waked — the origins of intellect
What the heck?

Started as hairless apes
Started shifting shapes
Clothing, leaves of grapes
Save us from disgrace
(save face)

Tainted… forbidden fruit
Garden… got the boot
Work… toil the soil
Strain… give birth in pain
Insane?

Given birth on Earth
Habit kickin’ habitat
What’s that? Stable genius
Less n’ less amongst us

What’s That.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E G / A C / C E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderShort Change

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LYRICS
Some things you just can’t change
Others you can rearrange
An object in motion stays in motion
No matter your personal notion
Time rolls on
Dawn of dawn

One person’s trash is an other’s treasure
One person’s work is an other’s leisure
One person’s passion is an other’s pain
One person’s fashion is an other’s vain

Caterpillar’s ending… butterfly’s beginning
A king’s demanding as pauper’s begging
First to draw the last straw
Frozen winter starts to thaw

Start to begin and the end’s done in
Begin to start… the ends depart
For sure the future will endure
Even as the present passes to past
Time rolls on
Dawn of dawn

Short Change.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: F G C / E Am
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe New Sedition

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LYRICS
One by one by one
Voices adding up
Too by too by too
Voices rising up
Three by three by three
The masses lining up
Four for four for more
The masses acting up
It’s the new sedition
The new sensation
It’s the knew sedition
Disruptive nation

Five by five by five
Voices come alive!
Six by six by six
A RESISTANCE! fix
Seven by seven by seven
Earth and heaven
Eight by eight by eight
Open up the gate!
It’s the new sedition
The new sensation
It’s the knew sedition
Disruptive nation

The New Sedition.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by Iran’s supreme leader and the protests of the “New Sedition”:

Supreme Leader Khamenei has blamed the protests on enemies of Iran. And, today, the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard sent troops into three provinces to put down what he called the new sedition.

Iran’s supreme leader was in a supremely sarcastic mood Tuesday as he gave a speech to a sea of military officials. His target: Trump’s first foreign policy moves.

“We actually thank this new president! We thank him, because he made it easier for us to reveal the real face of the United States,” said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a transcript posted on his official website. “… Now, with everything he is doing — handcuffing a child as young as 5 at an airport — he is showing the reality of American human rights.”

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: Em C Am Em / Em E / F# G E
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderBomb Cyclone

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LYRICS
Extreme whether?
Extreme weather!
Volatile all the while
Seekin’ shelter
Takin’ cover
Careful what you wish…
Might start raining frozen fish
Please don’t leave me standing all alone…
Bomb cyclone

Feel the genesis
Of bombogenesis
Adaptation of Revelation
Cyclical biblical
Of portion proportion
Seekin’ shelter
Takin’ cover
Careful what you wish…
Might start raining frozen fish
Please don’t leave me standing all alone…
Bomb cyclone

Could be the feaster of a Nor’ Easter
Jumbo shrimp? No need to skimp
Should be a whale of a wail tail/tale
When the mumbo bombo bomb cyclone hits home
If I had my druthers,
I’d rather mainly Maine lobsters*
(*tales hold the clause / tails hold the claws)
Floundering in flounder-ings
I’m up to my ass in sea bass
Careful what you wish…
Might start raining frozen fish
Please don’t leave me standing all alone…
Bomb cyclone

Bomb Cyclone.mp3

Bomb Cyclone-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about extreme weather events and human induced climate change inspired by the Bomb Cyclone blizzard of January 4, 2018.

“‘Bomb cyclone’ blasting East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week The most severe winter weather yet will assault the area late this week.” — washingtonpost.com

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: A C D G / D C E A
Recording: 1-track original take / digital 8-track stereo AltMix
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drums

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse