bookmark_borderThe Market Street Stroll

Market and High Streets, West Chester, PA
LYRICS
Count the cadence
Mark the beat
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
You might catch some heat
If you’re not discrete
Share your glow in the flow
They’ll never know
Walk the walk
Rock the roll
Stroll and dance
Down Market Street
Ohhh there’s so much
To enjoy the touch
Incorporate the scene
Into your dream
I suspect when you intersect with High
You won’t walk right by
Stop by, say High? and give it a try
In the thick of the music

The Market Street Stroll (Video).mp4

The Market Street Stroll.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar, Piano

A song about the rhythm of the street in downtown West Chester. Written at the corner of Market and High Streets in Chester County, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderSecret Of Life

LYRICS
I’ve got a secret to share with you
You can do what you set your mind to
You can make your dreams come true
Really just a matter of what you do

Why not clear your thought and take a deep breath in
Exhale a wail… let the show begin

I’ve got a secret I’d love to share
You’ve got a spirit trapped in there
Can you see you can set it free
Just a matter of wanting to be

I’ve a secret I just can’t keep
Out from my lips it’s going to seep
I can’t stand to lose more sleep
The meaning of life is oh so deep

Secret Of Life Song (Video).mp4

Secret Of Life.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: E G A C / E G A E / B E

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderBeautiful Day

LYRICS
What a beautiful day
In more than one way
Wouldn’t you say
What a beautiful day
What do you say
Grab your guitar… let’s play
Sun is shining bright
Not a cloud in sight
We’ll create musical delight

Sky’s true blue
Pure is the hue
Know what to do?
A point-of-view
We can see through
Playing the blues… for you

Beautiful Day (Video) .mp4

Beautiful Day.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: G Em / C D G

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderExperiMental

March For Science / Philadelphia
March For Science / Philadelphia

LYRICS
What is meant by experiment?
ExperiMental
Good for mental health
Experi-mental
Good for social wealth
ExperiMental
Mental that is meant for all
If you don’t know
Dip in your toe
Give it a test
So you can figure the rest
Don’t be shy
Give ‘er a try
I’m not going to lie
We are all going to die
The trick is to experiment with it
Before you get too sick
Not knowing “why”
Before you die
Got to know why
Before I die
Got to know why
Before you die
Got to know why
Before we die

March For Science Philadelphia PA
March For Science

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F# C#6 / Em F F#
Rhythm: 100 BPM up and down
Recording: digital stereo

Inspired by the March For Science on Earthday, April 22, 2017.

Vocals, Piano and Synthesizers

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderBlack Hole Capture

LYRICS
Don’t you think it’s time…
We see
The entire galaxy?
Beyond the closest star
Wanna go far
Gotta get out and explore some more
Take a picture for sure
Of a whole black hole

Don’t forget your rocket
With a digital input socket
Tunes wit a groove in the pocket
A roadtrip soundtrack to rock it!

Black Hole Capture (Video).mp4

Blackhole Capture.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
You can not really take a picture of a black hole. No light escapes from a black hole, so you won’t see anything. That is why it is called a black hole; however, theoretical astronomers have attempted to take the first picture of a black hole.

Style: Progressive Rock / Space
Chords: Em D / Am C Em / C Am Em

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

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderHot

The Hot Song (Video).mp4

Hot.mp3

LYRICS
Got what we sought
Hot, hot, hot
A joke’s hoax or whatnot
Skin is burnin’
Heart is yearnin’
World keeps turnin’… ’round
Turn the temperature down

Look what we brought
Hot, hot, hot
In my trap, you’re caught
Skin is burnin’
Heart is yearnin’
World keeps turnin’… ’round
Turn the temperature down

Well, thanks a lot
Hot, hot, hot
For the lesson taught
Skin is burnin’
Heart is yearnin’
World keeps turnin’… ’round
Turn the temperature down

Record Temperatures
Record Temperatures

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about record high temperatures in April.
Climate Change Breaks Multiple Records with Global Impacts

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: B E / G A E / C E / D E
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

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

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderSoul-you-tion

LYRICS
What’s the solution
To our institution
The human nation institution of pollution
What’s the solution?
Have we lost control of self-control
Say “it’s close enough for rock and roll”
Destination annihilation
Our species as others’ feces
Suck out our brains
And eat our remains
The toll of our goal

Soul-you-tion Video.mp4

Soul-you-tion.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about killing ourselves with pollution.

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: D D-f# D-d D-a / C G D / G D
Recording: 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderSerenity Of Serendipity


LYRICS
You showing me your hospitality
You’re giving faith in all humanity
Nothing can go wrong
When you’re in the song
It won’t be long

I like your attitude
Love your gratitude
You’re showin’ me
Serenity
Serendipity
The serenity of serendipity

You’re glowing… the (I’ll)luminosity
You’re growing from the generosity
Everything is all right
When of you I write
Carries us through the night

Serenity Of Serendipity Video.mp4

Serenity Of Serendipity.mp3

Recording at Everhart Park
Recording at Everhart Park

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: E A9 / D A E
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderBlues Away

LYRICS
If you’re feelin’ a ‘lil blue
I’ve the remedy just for you
The blues will take your blues away
Bluebird singin’ about a sunny day
Sunny days are on your way

If a black cloud follows you around
Don’t let it ever let it get you down
Ear to the earth and feel the sound
Soon enough your song will be found

If a shadow follows you
Something you can do
To your heart be true
Shine the point-of-view

Blues Away Video.mp4

Blues Away.mp3

Songwriting at Gay and Church Streets
Songwriting at Gay and Church Streets

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: E E7 Bm E A B7 E / C D G / C D E
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar

Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Recorded at Everhart Park.

From the album Gay Church

bookmark_borderPermit To Carry

Busking Permit
Busking Permit

LYRICS
I got a permit to carry my axe
Now going out and have some attacks
Allowed to sing and dance some, too
Now the question is, “How about you?”
Got your permit?
We’ll get lit!
Got your permit?
Let’s get lit!
Got your permit?
Come get lit!
Got your permit?
Get you permit
You better make it quick

Do some magic that’s really slick
Rabbit from a hat… or slight-of-hand trick
I might recite while fire juggling
Thespian, asked again, “Are you acting?”

I might read what I write
Then play it right into the night
Draw with chalk on the sidewalk
Now I’ve a permit, they can’t balk
Got your permit?
We’ll get lit!
Got your permit
Let’s get lit!
Got your permit?
Get you permit
You better make it quick

Permit To Carry (Video).mp4

Permit To Carry / West Chester, Pennsylvania.mp3

Permit To Carry Live.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about an unconstitutional law that makes performance art a crime in West Chester, Pennsylvania. You must have a permit to do any of the following:
acting, singing, playing musical instruments, pantomime, juggling, magic, dancing, reading, puppetry, sidewalk art (working with non-permanent, water-soluble media, i.e., chalk, pastels, or watercolors directly on the pavement), and reciting.

The West Chester “Footloose” Ordinance

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: E A B7
Vocals, Guitar
Alternative version includes electric piano and electric slide guitar
Written and recorded West Chester, Pennsylvania
From the album Gay Church

Alternative Version

bookmark_borderMother Said

LYRICS
Yes, Mama, it’s true
You are growing old, too
That’s the value
Of loving the whole time through
My Mother, the sun is shinning bright
My Mother, can you still see the light?

Yes, Mama, bones disintegrating
Yes, Mama, most devastating
Yes, Mama, the ear won’t hear
Yes, Mama, the plight of sight

Yes, Mama, it’s true
You are growing old, too
That’s the value
Of loving the whole time through
In the end, you get what you give
Cherish every moment you live
My Mother, the sun is shinning bright
My Mother, can you still see the light?

Mother Said (Live).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: C G / C D G
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderRaveled / Unraveled


INSTRUMENTAL

Raveled.mp4

Unraveled.mp4

Raveled.mp3

Unraveled.mp3

Raveled / Unraveled Blues Guitar
Raveled / Unraveled Blues Guitar

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Blues Guitar
Chords: E A G / D A E
Recording: digital 1-track stereo

Guitar

From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_border3 Wise Monkeys

3 Wise Monkeys
3 Wise Monkeys

LYRICS
You cut off your nose to spite your face?
Another by-product of the human race
Do you cover your ears ’cause you fear to hear?
Do you cover eyes… no looking here!
Do you cover your lips ‘less truth slips?

In a disgrace did you rig the race?
Is your space way out of place?
Do you cover your ears ’cause you fear to hear?
Do you cover eyes… no looking here!
Do you cover your lips ‘less truth slips?

Pick up a guitar… pick up a bass
Why don’t we just rock this place
Uncover your ears we have no fears
Uncover your eyes stand-up to lies
Uncover your voice! We have a choice!

3 Wise Monkeys.mp4

3 Wise Monkeys.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: D G A E / D A C E
Recording: digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Organ

The three wise monkeys (Japanese: 三猿 Hepburn: san’en or sanzaru ?, alternatively 三匹の猿 sanbiki no saru, literally “three monkeys“), sometimes called the three mystic apes, are a pictorial maxim. Together they embody the proverbial principle “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE

bookmark_borderJump Up

LYRICS
Jump up! Leap forward
Jump up! Leap toward
Jump up! Leap forward
Leaping forward toward tomorrow
Yesterday keeps creepin’ in

Jump up! Leap forward
Jump up! Leap toward
Jump up! Leap forward
Leaping forward toward tomorrow
While we have today to play, hey!

Jump up! Leap forward
Jump up! Leap toward
Jump up! Leap forward
Running headlong toward tomorrow
Yesterday comes near, again

Jump Up.mp4

Jump Up.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Children’s Music
Chords: E / E G A
Recording: digital 16-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Childish
by Daniel Brouse

bookmark_borderFollow The Leader

LYRICS
If you follow me
I’ll follow you
Seats at the Roundtable for two
(We found… seats at the round)

Unshadow me
Unshadow you
Overlord, unshadow all of the them, too
Knights of the Roundtable
Together are able
Together or apart
They start

A new age
“Age Of The sage”
No war wage
No road rage
Nothing in a cage
“Age Of The sage”
First page
Page one won

Follow The Leader.mp4

Follow The Leader #7.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock
Chords: Em7 Am7 Esus / Am G Em
Recording: digital 16-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the album Eschatology
by Daniel Brouse