Tag: waiting room

bookmark_borderLike Pulling Teeth

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LYRICS
Good grief?
Like pulling teeth
Disbelief
Pulling teeth
(Open wide! You can’t hide!)
The sound of the drill
Makes me ill
When you see the bill
Feel ill still
Get the grind
Out of mind
Try to find
Someone kind
The gravity of a cavity
Weighs me down
Dental crown
King clown
Phew! Relief
Not pulling teeth
Glad the Dr. could
Say “Looking good”

Like Pulling Teeth.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E A B7 / B E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo recorded at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA.

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDifferent

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LYRICS
Different? OK!
Indifferent? No way!
If you don’t care to care
This is going nowhere
The fashion of compassion is no fad
Imagine how you’d feel if you never “had”
Never had… never had had
If yo never had clean water, would it matter?
If you were cold and hungry how indifferent would you be?
If the clothes you chose weren’t a choice
Would you raise your voice
Against indifference
I’ll have one of those
And make a difference
My stance — make a difference
This instance
Any circumstance
Make a difference

Different (Video).mp4

Different.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by a doctor who was indifferent… the difference between being different and indifferent.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 E A G E / C A
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo recorded at Everhart Park, West Chester, PA.

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderIt’s A Gas

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LYRICS
It’s a gas
Surely we’ll pass
In the meantime
My heart burns
In verse and rhyme
My heart yearns
Alas
It’s a gas
Life moving fast
Present to past
Hope to out last
It’s a gas
Did solid
Did liquid
Now the hour of our vapor
State transfer
Gas! Ssssss…
Transparent as glass
Into gas
This is metamorphosis
We’re a gas

It’s A Gas (Video).mp4

It’s A Gas.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song written in a Gastroenterologist (GI) doctor’s waiting room while looking at sales brochures hanging on the wall.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A G / C G D A
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderX-ray Vision

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LYRICS
Indecision
X-ray vision
I see a revision
… can see right through you
What the damage is going to do
Make the decision
X-ray vision
Isotope probe
You know you’re going to glow
Can see right through you
Envision revision
X-ray vision
On a mission
Season of reason
X-ray vision
See inside me
Internal treason
Fight in sight
My decision
X-ray vision

X-ray Vision.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 2 Em Ebm / G D Em
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRunning In Place

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LYRICS
In a race
Running in place
Unaware
Going nowhere
Keeping pace
Running in place
Soon I found
Gaining no ground
Stagnant
Like a plant
Maybe I’ll grow on you
Static
Less than quick
Clue: non-changing view
Face-t0-face
Running in place
Now aware
Going nowhere
First place
Running in place
Running late
To wait

Running In Place.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Capo 3 G/C G / C D G / D C G
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderSick

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LYRICS
Quick! Going to get sick
The hospital makes me ill
At the time, I was feeling fine
Well, now my wellness is on the line
Get me out of here
Need air that’s clear
Sound the alarm for harm
Induction of infection
Don’t want to learn of the germ
My health is a gem
My wealth is a all gone
From the system I’m in
Oh, dear! Get me out of here
Hypochondriac fear
Cardiac attack
Fell ill from the bill
Treasure my health
But lost my wealth
From the system I’m in

Sick.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: A Ab Bb / C A / C G A
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderTreat Meant

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LYRICS
Treatment
I meant
Treat meant
I scream
Ice cream
Take cake
Candy
Treatment
I meant
Treat meant
Not to probe or poke
Nor resentment stoke
Treatment treat
Treatment
May it be pain free
Void of annoyed
A pleasant event
Treatment
Treat treatment
Treat evident
Heaven sent
The kind kind-of treatment

Treat Meant.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: B E / A B7 B E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderDoctor! Doctor!

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Doctor! Doctor! .mp3

LYRICS
Doctor! Doctor!
Tell me what you knew
Doctor! Doctor!
Tell me what is new
Doctor! Doctor!
This ain’t the flu
And I’m overdue
Need a transfusion
From this delusion
Feel like mud
Need new blood
More radiation
For cessation
Know what I mean
Can’t even scream
Laryngitis
Illness fights us
The modern dread
Is waking up dead
Let me out of this hospital bed
Hospital gown getting me down
The lack of a back
Let’s my ass pass
Into thin air
Is there anybody there?
Hello? Hello?
I just dunno…

ABOUT THE SONG
A song written while waiting in three different waiting rooms: Chester County Hospital Radiology, Cancer Center of Chester County and a Primary Care Physician in West Goshen Township.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E7 E A / G A E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWheelchair

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Wheelchair.mp3

LYRICS
Better sit down
The wheels go round
Even if you can stand no longer
There’s the support of the stronger
As the wheels go round and round
May freedom found abound
As the wheels go round and round
Freedom ringing is the sound
Set yourself free
Upward mobility
The world you’ll see
Semi-dependently
We all need somebody
For an everybody
WE all are somebody
Part of everybody
Together we’ll weather
Going round and round
No matter “whatever”
With a smile it’s found
Riding a merry-go-round
Going round and round
As the wheels go round and round
May freedom found abound
As the wheels go round and round
Freedom ringing is the sound

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Folk Rock
Chords: A E / G D A
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderWar On Cancer

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LYRICS
We’ve got a war on cancer
The only problem…
The cancer’s in her
The war on the goblin
The issue at heart
Hard to tell them apart

Throw out the baby
With the bath water
What about maybe
We try to save her?

We’ve got a war on terror
The only error
The terror of terror
I just don’t know
Can we wage war on a shadow
Here we go
Throw out the baby
With the bath water
What about maybe
We try to save her?

We’ve got a war on war
We just can’t wait
Fighting hate with hate
The real debate
Can you hate hate?
Ahhh… it’s too late
Throw out the baby
With the bath water
What about maybe
We try to save her?

War On Cancer.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: F# F E / G E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderThe Future Past Life Blues

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LYRICS
I read, “The late Alfred Doe”
Late? He’s really dead, though
Beyond tired…
Expired
Beyond past due
He’s through
I’ve got the future past life blues
When I die
Hope you stop by
n’ say “hi” and “good-bye”
When I die
Hope you stop by
Or at least try

I heard, “The late Jane Doe”
Late? At her rate…
Died in the fast lane, though
All horizontal
Open casket… full frontal
I’ve got the future past life blues

When they say I’m dead and gone
Sing that “Jolly Good Fellow” song
Any time of me you think
Raise your glass and toast a drink
I’ve got the future past life blues

Future Past Life Blues.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderJigsaw Puzzle

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LYRICS
I saw a jigsaw
Puzzle
Fallen to pieces
Broken… old
New life leases
Put together
Escaping never
Trying to get the picture
To ensure we’ll endure
The art of the parts into a dream scene

I can’t wait to see what we’ll be
Our part in the heart of art
The puzzle’s solution
Our evolution

How long will we be together
Can it last forever and ever
Will someone start to pull us apart
Once they dismember will they remember
… will they begin to make us whole again?

Jigsaw Puzzle.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about a puzzle in the doctor’s waiting room as a metaphor for human life.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Am C E / E C A / C E Am
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderObsolescence

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LYRICS
The fading scene of the magazine
Once the scourge of the forest
Now it’s being put to rest
Soon I hope to see
The same thing happen to TV

Maybe we can learn to earn
The need to earn to learn
An appreciation for the acquisition
Of knowledge as privilege

Today and forever more
Banished to a waiting room
In the fading light of glory before
Parent of an empty womb

With any luck, reincarnated
Instead of to the garbage fated
Recycled to a new life form
A birthday to be reborn

The fading scene of the magazine
Once the scourge of the forest
Now it’s being put to rest
… think it’s best

Obsolescence.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about the magazines in the doctor’s waiting room as a metaphor for human life.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: C Am Em / C Am F D / D A / C F D
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHearts Attack

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Hearts Attack.mp3

Hearts Attack
Hearts Attack

LYRICS
Before it was too late
The hearts heard of the hate
Arm me with an army
Heart attacks
Plug the holes where love lacks
Hearts attack
The humanity comeback

Before it was too late
The hearts heard of our fate
A leg up… arm me
Heart attacks
Quadruple bypass where love lacks
Heart attacks
The flow of love comes back

Sure hope it’s not too late
For your heart to participate
Early heart attack care
Are you aware?
It’s time to start
Arm your heart
Pick up love’s slack… attack!

ABOUT THE SONG
While sitting in the hospital’s waiting room, I saw a brochure entitled “Early Heart Attack Care”. It inspired a song about the love in your heart.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em G / A / D A Em
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderI Have To Go

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I Have To Go.mp3

LYRICS
Just thought you should know
I gotta go
The pace of this show is too slow
Oh no no no no
I gotta go

Have I made you aware
I’m outta there
The pace of this show is slo-mo
Oh no no no no
I gotta go

Am I being clear
Don’t wanna be here
The plotless show goes on and on
Ain’t the pawn
I am gone

Yes the happy me
I get to flee
We brought the curtain down
Bye-bye frown
I’m outta town

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about finally getting out of the doctor’s waiting room.

Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E’s AM7 Bm / D A E
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!
[Songs written in doctors’ waiting rooms]
by Daniel Brouse