Tag: the present

bookmark_borderI Don’t Know?

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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)

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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

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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

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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

bookmark_borderPower

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LYRICS
We are ready
Turn up the sound
Rock unsteady
Roll the ground
Bake, shake n’ quake

Let’s play music
Let the music play
It’ll cure the sick
And, ease the social decay

We are ready
Up the volume
Don’t be stingy
“10” and then some
(chorus)

We are ready
Strap on the Strat?
As Ibanez
Says where it’s at
(chorus)

Power.mp3

Power Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded after the power outage of March 2018.

Style: Alternative Prog. Rock / Folk
Chords: A G / G F# A / D E A
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderLamplight

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LYRICS
No matter how hard
I just can’t make that dream come true
No matter what
I give and take
Can’t make
That dream come true
And, then and there
… and, then I hear… hear here
Fortifying to lamplight
Like it’s 1692
You’ve come through
Into the flow of the glow
I know
It’s you

[I see you
There’s nothing I’ve got to do
’cause this dream is coming true
Under the lamplight into the dark of night]

Lamplight.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded during the power outage of March 2018 while spakling to the light of hurricane lamps. It’s about dreams coming true.

Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A C Em
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderBlackout

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LYRICS
I gotta get back
Out of the dark
I gotta get back
Needing a spark
Come on, baby, show me the light
Get me through the dark of night

It’s been so long
Since we’ve had sight
It’s been so long
In this light blight

I’ve got the urge
For a surge
I’ve got the urge
For darkness purge

Black Out.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded during the power outage of March 2018.

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderPower Outage

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LYRICS
The wind is blowin’ right in
It’d be a sin
For my warmth to be wastin’
Snuggle over cheek-to-cheek
We could have conversation
About going to strong from weak
With our energy conservation
No power for hours
With the power that’s ours
There’s heat to devour
We might write by candlelight
A song of love… my hand as your glove
The power outage
Set the stage
For romance
Our chance
To engage

Power Outage.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Am7 A7 E7 Esus4 D-d / D-d A7 E7 Esus4 A7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

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