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LYRICS
The sound pours through the pores
Infiltrating all cores
Not a sole soul
Left untouched
Until all hearts are clutched
Take it in
Bleed it out
Beauty as deep as the skin
’till there is no doubt
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — F#
100 Beats Per Minute / 16 Beat Shuffle
Daniel — Vocals, Vox, Keytar, Keyboards and Synthesizers (live simultaneous 1-track stereo recording)
From the album ToneLab
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
It goes in one ear
And right in the other
Both ears hear
Slightly different than one another
A simple gift
A pan to the left
A pan to the right
Bringing light to third eye sight
Experimenting
With sound fermenting
Pushing buttons and turning knobs
For a good sound job
A sound sound job
A solid sound
Released and found
Messing With Stereo Music Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — F#
E F F#
142 Beats Per Minute / Cha-cha
A song about fooling with the sound inspired by The Cars “Moving In Stereo”
Made In America (USA)
Daniel — Vocals, Vox, Keyboards and Synthesizers (live simultaneous 1-track stereo recording)
From the album ToneLab
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
No matter what you say
Not matter what you do
It isn’t true
Your point-of-view
Might be askew
Yes… that’s what I’m asking you
Whatever price you pay
Don’t you have a clue
It’s not true
The minute, hour or day
Won’t change the way
It’s not true
Your point-of-view
Might be askew
Yes… that’s what I’m asking you
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — E A G
E G A
Made In America (USA)
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar (live simultaneous 1-track stereo recording)
From the album Atmos-fear
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
I wonder what it’s like to wander
In your no man’s land
Is the pursuit to squander
The ability to understand
I ponder what it is you wonder
What goes on inside your head
How it can be such a blunder
When what comes out of your mouth… is said
Well,
You made your bed
You rose the dead
Instigator and creator
Of the zombie apocalypse you dread
I wonder what goes on in your mind
If you’ve quit using logic
Has your third eye gone blind
Or are you really that sick
Is your terror in error
Or is your intent hellbent
Emotional quicksand snarer
A helping hand never lent
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — C Em Am
Am Em
Made In America (USA)
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers (live simultaneous 1-track stereo recording)
From the album Atmos-fear
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Is there change in the air
Is there change in the anywhere
Is this change uncompared
All a flux for those with bucks
I see London. I see France.
Seeing politicians in their underpants
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down
The bigger the crown the harder the down
Re-arrange their despair
Sending hope from here to there
Cause the change if you’re aware
All a flux for those with bucks
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — EE EE A G
EE EE A D
EE EE A C
C E
It’s a song about change and voting on election day.
Heraclitus is famous for his insistence on ever-present change in the universe, as stated in the famous saying, “No man ever steps in the same river twice.”
Plato argues against Heraclitus as follows:
How can that be a real thing which is never in the same state? … for at the moment that the observer approaches, then they become other … so that you cannot get any further in knowing their nature or state …. but if that which knows and that which is known exist ever … then I do not think they can resemble a process or flux ….
Written and recorded at Everhart Park in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album A Nick Of Time
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
My Grandma and your Grandma
Are sitting by the fire
Wondering why we don’t fan the flames higher
(… just a little higher)
And I pride myself on not being too proud
Not to quite and not too loud
My Grandpa and your Grandma
Are sitting ever higher
Wondering why we don’t and aspire
(… just a little higher)
And I try myself to be the best I can
A likeness to a human
Fan The Flames Music Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — A Em/A
D A
Written and recorded at Blue Marsh State Park, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Generation
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
The style to the way you smile
The smile upon your lips
In dance, the way you sway
The movement of your hips
When things warm-up
We’ll get in touch
Much
(When things warm-up)
Stare into each others eyes
The trial of lips with a kiss
Now a word to the wise…
Oh, my! Little Miss
When things warm-up
We’ll get in touch
Much
(When things warm-up)
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — E A
D A E
Written and recorded at Everhart Park in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Dawning Of The Day
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
A paralyzed man
And neural regeneration
Just shows we can
Legs dancing with gyration
Just shows we can
With moral fortitude
… the right attitude
The olfactory factory
Lights a bulb
A bright idea
A problem solved
Angels singing Ave Maria
The sensation of neural regeneration
Sensation — neural regeneration
I think I can, Man
Man, think I can
Feels so fine
Sends shivers up my spine
Sends Shivers Up My Spine Music Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords/Tempo
C F
G7 C
AbAug Am7 C7 CM7 C
102 Beats Per Minute – Casio WK-3500 Ambient (specialized settings on the midi connected microKorg)
Mixed live through a Behringer mixer. Vocals mic’d one natural Sennheiser and one through a Digitech KP3.
Based on this news story:
A paralyzed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.
Prof Geoff Raisman, chair of neural regeneration at University College London’s Institute of Neurology, led the UK research team.
He said what had been achieved was “more impressive than man walking on the moon”.
A key difference with Mr Fidyka was that the scientists were able use the patient’s olfactory bulb, which is the richest source of olfactory ensheathing cells.
The complex neural circuitry responsible for our sense of smell is the only part of the nervous system that regenerates throughout adult life.
It is this ability that scientists have tried to exploit in stimulating repair in the spinal cord.
Every time we breathe, molecules carrying different odours in the air come into contact with nerve cells in the nose.
These transmit messages to our olfactory bulbs – at the very top of the nasal cavity, sitting at the base of the brain.
The nerve cells are being continually damaged and must be replaced.
This process of regeneration is made possible by olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which provide a pathway for the fibres to grow back.
Scientists believe this is evidence that the recovery is due to regeneration….
— BBC
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Daniel — Keyboards, Vocals
From the album Dawning Of The Day
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Two angels in broad daylight
You wanna put up a fight?
Rape me like a sheep
Then, your soul you think you’ll keep?
Now, that’s deep
Rape me like a sheep
Think God won’t make a peep?
Now, that’s deep
Sodom me?
You’d better flea
Sodom me?
You’ll never see
You’ll find you’re blind
Sodom And Gomorrah Music Video.mp4
Genesis 19 New International Version (NIV)
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom — both young and old — surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here… sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it… it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities, and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords/Tempo — Dm BbM7 131 Beats Per Minute / Digital Rock (based on Sodom and Gomorrah)
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Daniel — Keyboards, Vocals
From the album Dawning Of The Day
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
How could this be?
I can’t believe what I see
Must be some sort-of Ebola outbreak
Hemorrhaging from every orifice
Suffice to say
Don’t know how much I can take
Disturbing in every way
I can’t believe what I see
I am bleeding from my I’s
War, poverty, disease… no more please
Oh my goodness, dear
I fear what it is I hear
Must be some sort-of Ebola outbreak
Hemorrhaging from every orifice
Suffice to say
Don’t know how much I can take
Disturbing in every way
I can’t believe what I hear
It’s the politicians that I fear
War, poverty, disease… no more please
This social disease is beat
I’ve gotta get off my seat
Must be some sort-of Ebola outbreak
Hemorrhaging from every orifice
Suffice to say
Don’t know how much I can take
Disturbing in every way
I can’t let these events pass
I am bleeding from my…
But,
[The elected orifice officials chime in “but, but, but”]
War, poverty, disease… no more please
Out-rageous
Out-of-control
Outbreak
Ebola Outbreak Music Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Bb A Ab
111 Beats Per Minute / House
A song that uses the Ebola outbreak as a metaphor for the social disease “lack of society’s responsibility”.
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards and Synths
From the album Outbreak
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Oh won’t you take me by the hand
Lead me right to the promised land
I’d love to comprehend
Help me understand
In the promised land
Angels hark!
Noah’s ark
We’ve got to sail out of here / hear
Chorus
Angels sing
A Christmas thing
We’ve got to hail. Shout to hear
Chorus
Angels sing
An Easter thing
We’ve got to nail out our fear
(Break a guitar string)
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 3
G A D G
EM A D G
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA. Every other song on this album is about the dark or the light. This song is about the light.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Black Vs. White
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Dream like you mean
You’re going to have an impact on the scene
Dream what you mean
Mean what you dream
To You:
May all your dreams come true
Bring about a sensation
All about a good vibration
And, dance, dance, dance
“like no one is watching”
And the dreams you’ll be catching
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Am G
Em
Am +g, +d
Inspired by this quote:
There’s a lesson that I need to remember
When everything is falling apart
In life, just like in loving
There’s such a thing as trying to hardYou’ve gotta sing
Like you don’t need the money
Love like you’ll never get hurt
You’ve gotta dance
Like nobody’s watching
It’s gotta come from the heart
If you want it to work.
— Kathy Mattea
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA. Every other song on this album is about the dark or the light. This song is about the light.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Black Vs. White
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Sorry to say…
The documents are based on falsified information
Ya know, falsified info.
Whoa! Falsified info.
Does that blow?
Chorus
How could this be
The Judge and the District Attorney
In a conspiracy
Oh! The hypocrisy
(That’s it! A hypocrite)
Knock me out of my socks
You can’t just alter the docs
… can’t just alter the docs
Ahhhh… Urgh… Ooooo nooooo
Chorus
The police won’t cease breaking the law
Talk about your shock and awe
Talk about your shock and awe
Chorus
It’s hard to chill
When they’re trying to kill
The Bucks County Music Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — E G
D A E G E
E A D G E
E A D A G E
Based on a true story about public corruption in Doylestown, Bucks County, PA.
Written and recorded at the Sly Fox Music Festival in Pottstown and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Black Vs. White
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
The world seems less wild
If you can crack a smile
The beasts turn more mild
Now let’s dance a while
And a 1 and a 2
Here’s a smile for you
Ya know… do the Do-si-do
And Skip to My Lou
Put your left foot in
Put your left foot out
Shout! Win-win
Do the hoochie coochie coo
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 2
D A E A
C A
Inspired by a child that broke-out in dance while I was writing the song at Everhart Park in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar
From the album Black Vs. White
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Scary sorcery
Amen or omen
Evil demon
Or getting lucky
Nose twitches
Familiar with witches
The crossing of a path
God’s wrath
Is left to right alright
Scottish or pettish
Celtic mythology
Fairly fairy genealogy
Death by misfortune
Granting favorable times
The stuff of nursery rhymes
Specifically suspected
At the black cat
Omen
Amen
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Em Esus
Dm Em
Serenade / 94 BPM
Written and recorded live in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA. Video features a black cat.
The folklore surrounding black cats varies from culture to culture. The Scottish believe that a strange black cat’s arrival to the home signifies prosperity. In Celtic mythology, a fairy known as the Cat Sìth takes the form of a black cat. Black cats are also considered good luck in Japan. Furthermore, it is believed that a lady who owns a black cat will have many suitors. However, in Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens, specifically being suspected of being the familiars of witches, and so most of Europe considers the black cat a symbol of bad luck, especially if one crosses paths with a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death. In Germany, some believe that black cats crossing a person’s path from right to left, is a bad omen. But from left to right, the cat is granting favorable times.
The black cat in folklore has been able to change into human shape to act as a spy or courier for witches or demons. When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, they brought with them a devout faith in the Bible. They also brought a deepening suspicion of anything deemed of the devil and were a deeply suspicious group. They viewed the black cat as a companion, or a familiar to witches. Anyone caught with a black cat would be severely punished or even killed. They viewed the black cat as part demon and part sorcery. — Wikipedia
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards
From the album Eat It!
by Daniel Brouse