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bookmark_borderA Dam Good Joke

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LYRICS
As we reach the end of our rope
What we need is a good dam joke
Something we can all agree
Is downright knee-slapping funny
Seriously, something funny
With welcomed side-splitting agony
In the stream of consciousness
I heard a beaver say to us
Dam it! Dam it good! Good, dam it!

Interrupting my flow of thought
… or so I thought
But, believe it or not
We continued on… merrily
Merrily… life is but a dream
Know what I mean
There’s satisfaction in the realization
That the life we’re living
Is living in loving

In the stream of consciousness
I heard a beaver say to us
Dam it! Dam it good! Good, dam it!
Now, I’m a beaver believer

A Dam Good Joke.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Capo 3 E G A E / C E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWhat Do We Want?

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LYRICS
What do we want?
What’s what we want
What do we want?
What’s what we got
That’s it
What?!?!?

But, what about but?
Got a glut of what
But, what about but?

A blow to the gut
Open door shut
What”
But, what about but

Chase to the cut
Shortcut but
When what we want
Is what we got

What Do We Want? Prelude.mp3

What Do We Want?.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Am C G / B dim Am G Am; 100 BPM
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSerpent

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LYRICS
The serpent slipped
The serpent slid
Hard to believe… what the serpent did
No matter how miraculous
It was to all of us
We just couldn’t take
Faking with a snake

We would have been fine
If he had a spine
‘stead we raised a fuss
’cause he’s not one of us
No matter how marvelous
… tossed under the bus
We just couldn’t fake
That we could take a snake

A man that speaks with forked tongue
Days are numbered to being young
Speaking from both sides it’s said
Will likely wind you up dead

Serpent.mp3

Serpent Instrumental.mp3 (5-track with drums and piano)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Jazz Improv
Chords: C Am7 / C7 Am7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderKnow Nukes

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LYRICS
No, I’m not being lazy
Nor am I going crazy
Is your vision hazy?
In my vision
I’m on a mission
To go from fission
To fusion
Am I the only one
Think how happy we could be
As part of a nuclear family

No, I’m not being lazy
Nor am I going crazy
Is your vision hazy?
In my dream
We create a scene
Totally void of mean
(Know what I mean?)
Once we’ve all seen
The light of atomic energy
Can shine for eternity

Know Nukes.mp3

Know Nukes Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about global warming and nuclear fusion.

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Bb(11) C7 C / Dm/Asus4 A
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThis Song

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What’s the matter with this song
Where did I go wrong?
What’s the matter with this song
Too short and too long

It goes round and round and round
Like it’s never slowing down
’til an unexpected rest…
… arrests the sound

This Song.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: C G / D C G / G A D
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderMiddlemen, Man

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LYRICS
Forget about the middleman
Too little too late?
Forget about the middlemen
Signed, sealed… fate?
Did you get what you asked for
When you asked for no more
If the middle’s all undone
Is there only one more than one?
The Ends?
Amen
A man’s late fate
The rapid pace of anthropology
To save face… my apology
If we’re apt to adapt
Biology or else geology
Less you lust for all to dust
A common carbon deposit
Destined to be pristine fossil fuel
Is that all there is to it
Destined to be pristine fossil fool

Middlemen Man.mp3

Middlemen Man Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E A A E A B7 A B7 C G7 C E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderCreature Comforts

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LYRICS
Could this long, long lonely winter
Be through passing through
Feels like sunlight’s splinter
Yes, Her day has come due

Draw me near to the time of year
When a creature’s comfort is you
Draw me near to the time of year
When I’m your creature’s comfort, too

Could this long and lonely dry-spell
Be through passing through
Gifts of the sky once fell
Her day’s due a re-do
(Chorus)

Could this long, long lonely season
Be through passing through
Searching for rhyme and reason
In everything you do
(Chorus)

Creature Comforts.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: E G A / G A C / C D B / B D A G E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present

bookmark_borderBulletproof

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LYRICS
Wearing the truth
Bulletproof
To tell the truth
Bulletproof
The shield won’t yield
Got it on like Teflon
Bulletproof

Bulletproof.mp3

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

Style: Alternative Rock / Protest Folk
Chords: E A B7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present

bookmark_borderIn The Afterall

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LYRICS
In the afterall, after all
Enthrall
All call
Drop the gull
‘en haul
In the afterall
After all
Small maul
If at all
If I’m the lull in time, I’m…
Small stall sprawl
About throughout
Threw out
Scrawl wherewithal on the wall

Appall the apple of the I ball
Heal all
After all
Enthrall all
In the afterall, after all

Head the call of the herd
So, you’ve heard
Tell them all
Scrawl wherewithal on the wall
Cull the herd
So, they’ve heard
Scrawl wherewithal on the wall

In The Afterall.mp3

In The Afterall Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive
Chords: Dm Dm7 C Dm
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderGive It All

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LYRICS
Nothing left to do
But to pursue
Give it all I got?
Sure, why not!
The dog was in the doghouse
Can you tell me who’s to blame
Are you calling out my name?
Not “whatever” “all the same”

What more can I do
But to pursue
Go the final yard
It’s not that hard

What about for you
Whatcha gonna do
Give it all you’ve got?
Come on! Why not?

Give It All.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderEncore

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LYRICS
Beyond execute
Absent rebuke
Remember the follow through
Hope I do
Follow through
Hope I remember to
Hope I remember
Final number
Then encore
Then some more

It’s time to embrace
The start of the race
Run after the starting gun
Hope I do
Remember to
Finishing line run through

The optimists
Within exists
Remember we’re not through
Body’s dead
The life we led
Get to start anew?

Encore.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFloodlight

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LYRICS
Seeking shelter
From Helter Skelter
All hell
Is breaking loose
Farewell
If we don’t choose
Fight or flight?
You better ask
If we multitask

When viewed
You’ve come unglued
Time to be subdued
Lewd, rude, crude

Flood the hate
With the love
Flood the light
From above
Not too late
Flood with love
Suffocate hate
Show ’em what we’re made of?
We’re made of love

The insight of floodlight
Floodlight incite in sight
Invite floodlight

Floodlight (Music Video).mp4

Floodlight.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Am G F G G Am
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderPair-a-d-eyes

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LYRICS
Handicap. Have you got one, too?
All of us, just trying to get through
Following orders… hut, 1, 2
Starting to think that just won’t do
In your eyes
I see paradise
Realize
Eyes on the prize
Life before it dies

Drum Castle
Drum Castle

Stuck inside your castle walls
Waiting ’til the kingdom falls
Can’t escape your nightmares
Regain hope and lose your fears
In your eyes
I see paradise
Realize
Eyes on the prize
Life before it dies
Life before us lies

The captain says you may move about
Just as long as you don’t venture out
Quite the contrary revolutionary
Weight of the world on your shoulders carry
In your eyes
I see paradise
Realize
Eyes on the prize
Life before us lies

Pair-a-d-eyes AltMix (Music Video).mp4

Pair-a-d-eyes.mp3

Pair-a-d-eyes (unplugged).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Capo 2 Em C7 / Em D / Em Esus4
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDefinition Of Being

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LYRICS
Counting my blessings
Life’s for the taking
Soul-to-soul caressing
Lives in the making

What it is you did
Can’t be rid or hid
What it is you do
Will define you
What I’ll come to be
Is really up to me

As time is fleeting
Life’s for the taking
Before completing
Life’s in the making

Simultaneous us
Lives for the taking
The glorious us
Lives in the making

Definition Of Being.mp3

Definition Of Being Instrumental.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWhere To?

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LYRICS
Where are you going
Aware… or not knowing?
Rabbit’s circle jump off track
Never looking back
Do you feel the coup
Of the loopity lou
Can you tell me where you’re going to?

Being a bleeder follow the leader
Stampede off a cliff
Hey! Lemmings, to be seceder
Gotta ask “what if?”

Bling lead the bling ain’t being kind
Need I remind
We gotta take a stance where we stand
Do you understand?

Where To?.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Protest / Folk
Chords: Em7 Em E / E Bm E / A7 E’s
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!