INSTRUMENTAL
ABOUT THE SONG
Open G tuning
open, 7th fret
12, 10, 7
7, 5, 3, open
Daniel — Slide Guitar
From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse
Tag: rock music
bookmark_borderTale Of Dust
LYRICS
Leaving a tail/tale of dust
With zeal and a lust
Takin’ in what will have been
Don’t let today
Pass-away
Take it in while you can
Leaving a tale/tail of dust
No way we can rust
Takin’ in what will have been
Won’t let today
Fade away
Panoramic memory
The good thing about memory
At any age it ain’t baggage
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Open G Tuning
open, 1st fret
1, 5, 5, 1, open
7, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Open –> 3
Daniel — Vocals, Slide Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderFreak Of Nature
LYRICS
Golly! Lookie see
There’s a bee flying straight at me
Holy! Helter skelter
Seek shelter from that woodpecker
My, oh, my
see that dragonfly
Helicopter raptor that wants me to die
But the most dangerous…
But the most dangerous is us
Where have we been
Nature rules again
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Open D tuning
open, 2nd fret, 3rd fret
3, 2, open
7, 5, 3, 2, open
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderDust To Dust
LYRICS
What are you doing
Said you’d be moving
Looks more like dozing
You’re hardly showing
It’s time to get going
Get movement flowing
Before you’re knowing
The curtain’s closing
Dust is blowing…
In the wind
Death rescind?
Dust in the wind
Rust won’t rescind
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Open D tuning
3nd Fret, 2rd Fret, open
12, 13, 14
3 –> 12
Written and recorded as a live 1-track stereo recording in West Chester, PA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderLabor Of Love
LYRICS
I want to know
Why is everyone working so slow?
On holiday
I don’t collect any pay
In the land where nothing’s free
Except for the air inside of me
Hey, hey, hey! Laborless on labor day
Laborer… please be a neighbor
Where do you get off
Taking another paid day off
When you’re clocked in
Still aloof time and time again
Chorus
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E G A
A E
C E
C A
A song about the Labor Day holiday.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Whistling, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; Korg N364), Controller and Computer (Alesis Vortex to laptop running Korg software; also has a midi cable to the microKorg)
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderChoose Or Lose (Pick A Winner)
LYRICS
Why don’t you go ahead and choose
After all what do you have to lose?
You’ve been blessed with a human mind
Please be kind… see what you can find
How can you live in indecision
That living’s more like dying
Create a synapse collision
It’ll sure be worth trying
You have to choose not to choose
Eliminating that choice
Living life is paying dues
Might as well raise your voice
What hat are you wearing
Try on your thinking-cap
Likely end up caring
And want to plot the map
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
D E G D
D E G A
D G7
Written and recorded as a live in Ambler, Montgomery County and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderRubber Chicken!
LYRICS
Smash a watermelon
With a sledgehammer
What does it take to make you laugh
Can you help me do the math
Robber chicken!
Do that gag again
Tripping over the ottoman
Dick Van Dyke was quite the man
Curly, Moe and Larry, too
Knew exactly what to do
Robber chicken!
Do that gag again
Chevy Chase could take a fall
Saturday night they’d do it all
Throwback to a pie in face
Comedic timing of pure grace
Robber chicken!
Do that gag again
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E G A G D G
A G
E
This song was inspired by sight gags, slapstick and physical comedy.
Written and recorded as a live 1-track stereo recording in West Chester, PA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderLeft Turn At Albuquerque
LYRICS
How did I end up here
Situations not clear
A man with a badge standing there
Acting like he doesn’t care
Don’t just stand and stare
Who ever said life is fair?
Only thing to fear is fear
Holdin’ on to things too dear
It’s time we are more aware
And car isn’t so rare
Time to awake
Goodness for goodness sake
Which direction will we go
Does anybody really know
Caught in a rift adrift
Missing the daily gift
Remember along the way
To give thanks for every day
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
C# D
Em A Em
Written and recorded as a live 1-track stereo recording in West Chester, PA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderFingernails On Thin Ice
LYRICS
Trying to grab by my fingernails
’cause right now what ails is what fails
The thin ice
Crackin’ me up
Fingernails down a blackboard
Sending shivers… shivers up and down my spine
yeeeeeah
Not sure if it’s fine
Sending shivers up and down my spine
The claw
Of it all
The claw of it all
As the fingertips go down
The chalkboard
Blackboard
The slate
At any rate
It sends shivers, chills
It spills chills
Up and down the spine
My spine
Ahhhhhhh
It’s intertwined
With pain
You’d have to be insane
Caught up in your own vain
Injecting vain into your vein
’till you feel no pain
The down side is you’re the pain
Driving us insane
The thin ice
It’s the fingers and the slate
Could drive a man irate
By the fingernails
What ails is what fails
The thin ice
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
F# or Gb
Abm Ab5
AbmM7
160 BPM increasing / Rock & Roll 2
An extemporaneous / impromptu song captured live as a 1-track stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; Korg N364), Controller and Computer (Alesis Vortex to laptop running Korg software; also has a midi cable to the microKorg)
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderDamn The Torpedoes
LYRICS
Damn the torpedoes
Hell or high-water
We’re gettin’ outta here
Throw rotten tomatoes
Do what we gotta
Living without fear
Do what I got to do
To break on through
Do what I got to do
And, I’ll take you, too
Up shit’s crick without a paddle
I know to row/go with the flow
Fall off the horse get back on the saddle
Set sail when winds blow
Damn The Torpedoes Music Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
E, -b, -e
A D G
Written and recorded as a live 1-track stereo recording at Marshall Square Park in West Chester, PA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderThe Sands Of Time
LYRICS
The grains in the hourglass drain
The sands of time are fine
Against course reality
Try not to miss the kiss of life’s lips
Spreading the seed to let love breed
On our ride to the otherside
Givin’ more than we take in
Directing our energy
Creating our destiny
Chorus
Heaven’s gate will have to wait
I’ve more to do… how ’bout you?
We can move Heaven and Earth
Before our dirge and re-birth
Chorus
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Dm Bb
Dm Am Em
Written and recorded as a live 1-track stereo recording in West Chester, PA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderThe System
LYRICS
You know we’re all suckin’ off the system
I know I am
Very clear what’s going on here
It started with my Mom’s teat
… but, we all gotta eat
Ya, we’re all sucking off the same hose
Everyone knows
It’s more about your need
More about the greed
Starting with your Mom’s teat
We’ve all got to eat
No surprise when you realize right before your eyes
We’re all suckin’ off the system
I know I am
But, I know I’ll do what can
How about you
We strive to stay alive
Survival of the fittest
Who is best?
My, oh, my
What will be my best fit
Even if I don’t like it a bit
Every day when I wake
See how much I can take
Gotta see what I can be
Gotta see what’s inside of me
I know, I know, I know
We’re all suckin’ off the same hose
I know, I know
How the water will flow
We’re all suckin’ of the system
I am…
I know I am
Gonna do what I can do
Hope you will, too
See what we can be
I know
About the flow
I know I am
Suckin’ off the system
Suckin’ off the system
I know I am
Started with my mother’s teat
We all gotta eat
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Em B
128 BPM increasing / Rock & Roll
An extemporaneous / impromptu song captured live as a 1-track stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; Korg N364), Controller and Computer (Alesis Vortex to laptop running Korg software; also has midi cable to microKorg)
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderFool’s Gold
INSTRUMENTAL
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
B E
A D G
E
A D G E
Em E
Daniel — Guitar
From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderHome
LYRICS
Hurling through space on this land mass
Around the sun make one more pass
Awful glad we’re nomad
The best times we’ve ever had
You can only be coming home
By making home where you roam
Using Earth as our mothership
Hoping we learn some stewardship
Time to get our house in shape
Starting to give instead of take
Chorus
Easy to see we’re merely gypsies
Making our wagon from earth and seas
Traveling through time… traveling through space
Calling the journey our sovereign place
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
A D A E A
E C A
C E A
Written and recorded as a live 1-track stereo recording in West Chester, PA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
bookmark_borderIn Common
LYRICS
Right before my eyes I start to realize
Common sense is hard to come by
And, I don’t know why
None to be found
None around
Right before my I’s, I start to realize
Common sense is hard to come by
And, I don’t know why
If all I do is “I, I, I, me, me, me”
It’s easy to see
No surprise
My demise
Right before my eyes I start to realize
Common sense is hard to come by
And, I don’t know why
How can you have more space
If space is nothing
How can you have more nothing
And find a trace?
(trip)
Right before my I’s, I start to realize
Common sense is hard to come by
And, I don’t know why
It seems that this I
The I I eye
Coming to think… it’s inevitable
That I’ll be unable…
I mean, we’re all gonna die
I don’t care why
(skip and a jump / time slide faster)
Common sense is hard to come by
But you’d better try
Not just some sort-of pie-in-sky
Get a grasp
At last
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
F Fm Cm C
85 BPM increasing / Slow Rock
An extemporaneous / impromptu song captured live as a 1-track stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; Korg N364), Controller and Computer (Alesis Vortex to laptop running Korg software; also has midi cable to microKorg)
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse