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bookmark_borderHallelujah Hallucination

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LYRICS
For those that think it’s best
The rest are just a pest
If you try to address their mess
They’ll pass the buck to the next
Patriot bull$hit
Political rhetoric
(This $hit is thick)
Do no harm? Sound the alarm!
Men in suits stole the loot
Savage beast… to say the least

For those that boast “I’m the most”
At last, first will be last
At last, last will be first
Their reign quenching our thirst
Redemption nation
Alienation salvation
(Hallelujah hallucination)
Is justice justified
Is your hide on the ride
Was downside… now upside

Hallelujah Hallucination.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: C A / B C A / G A / C G A; 66 BPM –> over 100 –> 32
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

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

From the album Brain Too More
by Listening Deficit

bookmark_borderWhat Is Is?

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LYRICS
I’m finding the utmost interest
In relativity
Feeling dependence on existence
Surreality
Trying to make sense
Of perception without senses
Perceive what I believe
Experience presence
Leap from “Ludwig’s Ladder”
Leave logic a tattered
Chaos theory delivery
The irony of destiny
Sixth sense third-eye I see

Spring from the last rung
Among angels in song
Soul music being sung
Time can’t be too long
In the essence of existence
Is the essence of existence
In the absence of existence
Will exist persist?

What Is Is? (Music Video).mp4

What Is-Is? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em C7 E C7 / E C7 A [C G7 A]
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

Wittgenstein’s ladder
A Wittgenstein’s ladder is a simplified explanation of a technical or complex subject that is used as a teaching tool, despite being technically wrong. The term stems from proposition number 6.54 by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHoney Or Vaseline?

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LYRICS
If everything were peaches and cream
Would you tire of the same old dream?
Do you catch more flies with honey
Or using Vaseline
If dreams are made of money
Puttin’ out fires with gasoline

If everything were coming up roses
Would you tire of the same old poses?

If your whole life was an easy ride
Would you miss a rising tide
If your whole life was an easy ride
Would you miss catchin’ high tide?

Do you wanna while-away and age
In a cage?

Honey Or Vaseline? (Music Video).mp4

Honey Or Vaseline? .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em7 E7 A7 / B7 A7 E7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderYou Are My Hero

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LYRICS
Does the gravity of longevity
Bring the brevity of identity
Into question?
The suggestion of mortality
The reality
When times are ominous
Please remember in all of us
Lives a hero with heartache
Longing for the great escape
In the time that “I am”, I’m
Going to set that hero free
In the time that “I am”, I’m
Bringing out that hero in me
In the time that “I am”, I’m
Creating destiny
You just might find
You can save mankind
Hold the thought in your mind
“Never too late to be kind”

You Are My Hero (Music Video).mp4

You Are My Hero.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 C Dm G / C-c C Em / E C
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFloat Your Boat

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Songwriting on the Brandywine
Songwriting on the Brandywine

LYRICS
Do you know what I mean
When I sing “floating down stream”?
Behave with the energy wave
… to the sea
Try to keep your head above water
Don’t ever go down for the third time
It really does matter
Living the nursery rhyme
Floating down stream
My body a boat in the dream
Embody “about” in the dream

Float Your Boat (Music Video on the Brandywine River).mp4

Float Your Boat Soundtrack.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em BM7aug C C7 / D6 C G
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

Written and recorded along the Brandywine River in Lenape, Chester County, Pennsylvania. (Home of the original indigenous Americans.) Written after the deaths of Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington it is an anti-suicide / pro-living life song.

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRedemption

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LYRICS
Mother Nature says
It’s only a phase
The nuclear age
The good ole days
Have parted ways
Mother Nature says
It’s only a phase
Only a stage
Postmodern rage
Comin’ clean on the war machine
Funded by our ghetto scenes
The American dream going up in steam
From growing a heart that’s mean
Redeem!

The more I dream
The redeem scene
Obscene come clean
I mean the dream
No longer mean
Loving is keen
Heart is the queen
Mercy is seen
The redeem scene

Redemption (Music Video).mp4

Redemption.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A C E / E G A / G A A9
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

Written and recorded along the Brandywine River in Lenape, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Additional lyrical inspiration from the Guess Who’s American Woman.

From the album A Collection Of Notes
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMore, More, More

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LYRICS
Man, how much human
Can we endure
How much more?
Fouled land, air and sea
Haven’t we
All ’bout me
(Imagine that)
Habitat sure got hot
It’s not the heat… nor humidity
It is humanity
… or lack thereof
It’s all about the love
You see — humanity
… or lack thereof

Purveyors of music, song and dance
Let’s give ’em one more chance
Convey what we hear Her say
Mother Nature’s messenger
Know Her… be no stranger
Ensure we endure
It is humanity
… or lack thereof
It’s all about the love
You see — humanity
… or lack thereof

More, More, More (Music Video).mp4

More, More, More.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: B7 Bm E / C A / E Am
Recording: digital stereo

Written and recorded at Everhart Park, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania during a heat wave. Inspired by human induced climate change.

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderOn Track

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LYRICS
On the track
And there is no turning back
On the track
Lightning from the smokestack
Oh, let go! Let’s go

On the track
And the train is bearing down
On the track
Hit us like a rodeo clown

On the track
Time we all took this train back
On the track
Here we go! Citizens attack!

On track
And there is no turning back
On track
Lightning from our smokestack

On Track.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E G / A G E / Em7 E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderUp To You

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LYRICS
Leaving it up to you
Since I don’t know what to do
Leaving it up to you

Conman in the White House
Politician’s a louse
Don’t need to think twice
When it comes to getting lice
Leaving it up to you
Since I don’t know what to do

Global warming warning
What do we need to heed
Spokesman is a hoax, man
I heard the dead men said
Leaving it up to you
Since I don’t know what to do

Bombing babies in cities
Error in the war on terror
Create parents irate
A radical can’t chill
Leaving it up to you
Since I don’t know what to do

Up To You.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: D E A D / G A D
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

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

Concept inspired by Ten Years After “I’d Love to Change the World”

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderThis Is The Nemesis

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LYRICS
Almost saw a ghost
Lost soul
Should have been toast
Almost saw a ghost
Life’s toll
Nemesis of boast
This is the Nemesis

Why don’t you confess
Your mess
Live like a pig
Now you are a ghost
At most
Body pillage… not so big
This is the Nemesis

Almost saw a ghost
Lost soul
Spirited roast
Almost saw a ghost
Life’s toll
Nemesis of “most”
This is the Nemesis

Almost saw a ghost
Lifeless host
Death on two legs
Almost saw a ghost
Heartless host
The question begs
Who is you Nemesis?
This is your Nemesis

This Is The Nemesis (Music Video).mp4

This Is The Nemesis.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Protest Folk Rock
Chords: E A / B7 G D A E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

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

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderDeep Love

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LYRICS
Dig Deep, Love, deep love
Big heap, Love, love deep
Figure out how to let her out
Figure out about deep love
Dig deep, Love, deep love
Begin by looking within
Figure out about letting ‘er out
Until the world is soakin’
In deep love, Love
You know… let it out from below
In the middle and all above…
Love deep, Love, deep love
With what you can’t keep
Go deep! Deep, love

Deep Love.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E Em7 / E G E / A B7
Recording: digital stereo

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

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderPermit Permitted

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LYRICS
Minimum wage, drinking age
Paragraph 1a), first page
It’s a…
Mixed-up bureaucracy betwixt hypocrisy
Fix is in conspiracy
So, corrupt I can see
(From see to slithering see)

Busking permit, speed limit
Paragraph 1a), original edit
Mixed-up bureaucracy betwixt hypocrisy
Fix is in conspiracy
So, corrupt I can see

Do not enter, do not loiter
Paragraph 1a) to the letter
Mixed-up bureaucracy betwixt hypocrisy
Fix is in conspiracy
So, corrupt I can see
Indeed,
You need a permit to read the permit to read, indeed.

Cross at the green, not in-between*
*see the small print… do you know what I mean?
Mixed-up bureaucracy betwixt hypocrisy
Fix is in conspiracy
So, corrupt I can see

Law can’t bend, won’t amend
Signed, sealed, send… The End

Permit Permitted.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about West Chester’s Busking Permit which outlaws reading without a permit. How are you suppose to read the permit application?

Style: Alternative Protest Folk Rock
Chords: (guitar just g#) E / Mix 5 or more chords (A G E D landing on E)
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

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

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderPro-found

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LYRICS
Why so sad? Why so mad?
Have you found
You can’t fit the square in the round
Profound!
All this time would’ve had
Been being glad
Have you found: round goes into round
Profound!
A scary clown thinks he’s running this town
Though fool as he might can’t bring us down
And try as he might to start a fight…
We’re feeling alright… we’re out-of-sight
Yeah, we’re pro-found
(Find being kind beings being kind)
We’ll leave the square there
’cause we’ve found round in round
Well, leave that behind behind
Come ’round to round in round

Pro-Found.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA it is about the owner of Penn’s Table Restaurant.

Style: Alt. Folk Rock
Chords: E / G A E / A E A B7
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The End Game

bookmark_borderSong And Dance

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LYRICS
Feel your superiority staring down on me
“Like whatever”
The rarity of your hilarity total insincerity
Defeat conceit

Bring on humility in humanity
Bring on humanity to this calamity
Humor elixir for social tumor
Song and dance can be our cure
… maybe our savior
… may be our “save your”

At your core, there’s strength in dignity
In the store of you humanity
Your loyalty to honesty
Is redeeming decency

Dancing free
Dreaming merrily

Song And Dance.mp3

Song And Dance Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: C+Bb Em+Bb Am / Em C Am / Am A / D G A
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

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

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_border… and, the Horse You Road in on….

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LYRICS
You can’t hide on the horse you ride….

Having trouble understanding
Where you’re landing
Instead of body commanding
You’re demanding
Pick up the pieces
Out inner peaces
Humanity thesis
You can take control
Of your human role / roll
The goal of your soul

Having trouble understanding
Where you’re landing
Instead of mind controlling
A mind of trolling
[chorus]

Having trouble understanding
Where you’re landing
Instead of spirit… endear it
… no one near it!
[chorus]

… and, the Horse You Road in on…. (video).mp4

… and, the Horse You Road in on…..mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about heroin addiction. A street-name for heroin is “horse“. Up through the 1940’s, heroin and other opiates were given to race horses. In equines, heroin is a powerful central nervous system stimulant. The horse thinks it is dying and goes into a “flight response”.

Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: E6 E / E G A / AM7 A
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Live stereo and video recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church