bookmark_borderAll The While Child

LYRICS
Now, I’ve been watching for quite some time
Trying to make reason into rhyme
While all the while
I should have been listening
Like a child
… all the while like a child

Instead of monkeying for all these years
And throwing wrenches into the fears
Should’ve been listening
Eyes (I’s) glistening
… all the while like a child

All that meddling in muddying madness
All for naught…
… but a knot in nooses
The sadness of useless
When ya could’ve been listening
Positioning for listening
… all the while like a child

All The While Child.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A Am7 A7 / C D C D C D A7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_border“Being” Redundant

LYRICS
[whistling intro]
Picking cotton, bailing hay
They say there was a day
Feeling what it means
To be replaced by a machine
Been retired to “being” redundant
Me in redundancy
(redundancy is me, me, me)
Redundancy… O.K.
Gov.UK
Redundancy your rights? Alright!
Redundancy pay
(redundancy is me, me, me)

I think I’ve found a way
To my payday
I see looking through employment opportunities
I could become important
As a redundancy consultant
Yes! Redundancy is an ever expanding field
Think of the potential profit yield

The ever increasing demand of Man
Feeling what it means
“Being” replaced by machines

“Being” Redundant.mp3

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

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe “Heaven Is Stagnation?” Blues

LYRICS
Just in case ya don’t get to do it twice
I’m living it up every day and night

You can have your heaven
And, eat it, too
But if I ain’t alive
It just won’t do

’cause if you ask me
Heaven is livin’
So, thank the heavens
For the life I’m given

Hey, look! Another moment to cherish
Love the movement before I parish
Just in case ya don’t get to do it twice
I’m living it up every day and night

The “Heaven Is Stagnation?” Blues.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Blues
Chords: E7 E / G A G E7 E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Days Of Freedom

LYRICS
Hum ditty, ditty dum
Hum, did he? Did he dumb?
When at first I did arrive
They say when I became alive
Those were the days of freedom
Hum ditty, ditty dum
Hum, did he? Did he dumb?
With each day it did erode
With every flush of the commode
Insane! Down the drain with freedom
How come?
Hum ditty, ditty dum
Hum, did he? Did he dumb?
Now be careful what you say
We had better “walk this way”
Watching freedom fray… how come?
Freedom
Hum ditty, ditty dum
Hum, did he? Did he dumb?
A little more every day
Slipping, slipping, slipping away
who let the freedom come undone?
Hum ditty, ditty dum
Hum, did he? Did he dumb?

The Days Of Freedom Video.mp4

The Days Of Freedom.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Em11 Em7 Em / A7 Am7 Em(add4)
Recording: digital 9-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Xylophone

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderThrough Glue

LYRICS
Take a look
Take a look around
Take a look
Looking up and down
Take a look
Take a look about
Take a look
Lookin’ in n’ out
Is it me, is it you
That we’re passing through
Is it me, how about you
Are we passing through glue
Now here’s what we can do
I think I’ve found a clue
The love on which we feed
Will give us godspeed
She’ll lead

Through Glue.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: F# G E / E G A / B7 A B7 A / F# G E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderKeeper

LYRICS
The ice is cracking under your feet
You’d better not wait
To spread your weight
Toward the shoreline I’d retreat
You’d better not wait
Noooo… I wouldn’t hesitate

Avoiding the frozen depths
Plunging dark and deep
Embracing the length and breadth
Death at arm’s length keep
… life kept

The wind is blowing you off your feet
You’d better not wait
To drop your weight
Don’t want to fall on your seat
You’d better not wait
Nooo… I wouldn’t hesitate

The lesson: Mother Nature I can not defeat
Nor can I outwait
The human is a light weight
I’ll show respect ever time we meet
Smile, bow, with open arms greet

Keeper.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Dm C / C E Am / C Am C E / Am
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Xylophone

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderAn Earthling Thing

LYRICS
This is a time
This is a place
The time is now
The place is here
To know the now
To hear the here
The time I’m
In… the race —
Earthling
Is the thing
… an earthling thing
Please don’t ask
“Take me to your leader”
Our leader is a bottom feeder
We have no meaning
For “intelligent being”
Despite my strife
* NO Intelligent Life *

An Earthling Thing.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Coincidentally, I was writing this song right before the news of Stephen Hawking’s death… the last intelligent life on Earth?

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Em D6 / C Bdim A G F Em
Recording: digital 4-track stereo

Vocals, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderOverhear

LYRICS
Sitting over here
In deep thought
About
Over there
Is it really that much different from
Over here?
(over there… can you overhear over there?)

As you’re already occupying
Over there
I suppose it would hard to share
And compare
Over there to over here over there
Anyway, I’m guessing
If I was sitting
Over there
The only big difference in my view
Would be me… sitting on you
Might cause a big tadoo?
(A big tadoo me sitting on you)
So, for now… ’till I figure out how
I’ll just think a bit and sit
Over here
Hey! I’m talking to you… did you
Overhear over here over there?

Overhear.mp3

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

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSkullduggery

LYRICS
There’s no need to bring the
Boys home
(No need to bring the boys home)
When you’re piloting
A drone
The boys are already home

Oops! When there’s too many maybe’s
You end up dropping bombs on babies
Minimizing my strife
Winds up in loss of human life

There’s no need to bring the
Boys home
(No need to bring the boys home)
When you’re launching
Missiles
There are no more “miss ya’s”

[rave-up into jam]

The cost because of camouflage
Mired in the fog of a mirage
The depth of death’s carnage
Label us the “barnyard age”
… in the age of the boneage
(animal noises)

Skullduggery.p3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Protest Folk
Chords: D E / D A E A / E A E A B7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSort-of

LYRICS
I’m glad to report
Good news, the sort-
Of thing. Sing:
Sort-of thing

In response to retort
Play a blues sort-
Of thing. Sing:
Sort-of thing

No need to resort
To pop songs the sort-
Of thing. Sing:
Sort-of thing

Order in the court
Justice the sort-
Of thing. Sing:
Sort-of thing

A glance of balance
Quick! Here’s our chance
Report such a thing
Good knews sort-of thing

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: A7 A E D A / E G A; 100 and 128 BPM; Blues Ballad
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTogether Whether

LYRICS
If it all falls together
All depends on whether
We call
(after all if we call after all)
All I ask of you
Is that you do
All I ask of you
Make the call

If we all pull together
The chances of whether
Fall
All I ask of you
Is that you do
All I ask of you
Make the call

If we all get together
Decide what’s “whether”
We’ll quell
All I ask of you
Is that you do
All I ask of you
Make the call

If we all join together
A crier / choir of “whether”
Hall / haul
(concert hall / sound haul)
All I ask of you
Is that you do
All I ask of you
Make the call

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords / Tempo: Emadd4 Esus4 D6; 121 BPM Disco Hands
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderI Don’t Know?

LYRICS
I don’t know if I don’t know
If i know why… I….
I don’t know if I know why
There ‘re those who shun the truth
I know I need to try
To find a super sleuth
To tell the truth!

I don’t know if I don’t know
If i know why… I….
I don’t know if I know why
There ‘re those whose fun is cruel
I know I need to try
To deplete their fuel
A silly bully

I don’t know if I don’t know
If i know why… I….
I don’t know if I know why
There ‘re those too smart to yield
I know I need to try
To level the playing field
A smoother earth mover

I Don’t Know? .mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTalking To The Wall (Part 1)

LYRICS
Running the inane
Feeling the pain
Of a cold driving rain

In the face
Face-to-face
Is your point-of-view
Going to rat on you?
In the face
Face-to-face
Doe the opinion you spew
Splatter back on you

Running from sane
Embracing the pain
Of a lame membrane
(chorus)

Running in sane
Down pouring reign
Feel the pain of the cold bold insane
(chorus)

Talking To The Wall.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Em C Em / Em G Am c
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderHeaven On Earth

LYRICS
I’m starting to think
Heaven is on Earth
The older and wiser I become
The more I believe
This is the Kingdom
Kingdom come
Some may think the thought dumb
But, I for one
Fine a miracle in my birth
God! It’s heaven on Earth
This is the Kingdom
Kingdom come

[jam]

A habitable habitat
Where we’re freed to breed
What more could I ask for
Freed to love like never before
Can you tell me…
Who could ask for more?

[jam]

Yes, yesterdays may fade away
So I make the most of every day
Will it end? the evidence is strong
So, the in-between I mean
To bring along
Bliss in the Kingdom
Kingdom come
This is the Kingdom
Kingdom come

Heaven On Earth.mp3

Heaven On Earth Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Am F / E Am / Am C
Recording: digital 4-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWord And Deed

LYRICS
I don’t know
Either or
Said the shyster to the whore
Furthermore
I don’t know
If you’re true to what you do?

Satisfaction’s in the action
And, indeed, your word and deed

Will I concede to succeed
Requires unanimous appeal
From all of us to be a deal
Unanimous
All of us
To seal the deal
The real deal

Word And Deed.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: E11 hammer on E / A slide to AM7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse