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Fill In The Blank ]]> Bet The Farm http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/13/bet-the-farm/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:21:06 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20145 LYRICS
So, this is it?
This is the ticket?
And, I paid all my good money for it?
Regret the debt you bet
Regret the debt you bet?
You may have meant no harm
When you bet the farm
Now, harm done
Remains numb
Cost of fun
Having none?

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: F#; 120 BPM 6/8 Rock
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Phew http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/13/phew/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:14:51 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20143 LYRICS
Tell me what?
This may smell alright to you
But, as for me… there’s a phew
I’m not suggesting it’s emitting from you
Or there’s a possibility that there’s anything you can do
But for me, there’s a phew
For me… P.U.
To sit downwind
And think what that wind’s been through
And to think where that wind might have been
A phew comes wafting through
It’s a nasty phew

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: D / F G D; 137 BPM Rock #2
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Can’t Wait For May http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/13/cant-wait-for-may/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:08:30 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20141 LYRICS
For others, they may
For me, there’s no way
No, can’t wait for May
To have a nice day
Way past-due today
No, can’t wait for May

Finally, no clouds stray
Nice day comes our way
Yes! This is the day
Let’s have a nice day
Let’s make it today
Moods swing the right way

Can’t Wait For May.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in West Chester, PA.

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: AM7 A G; 90 BPM 16 Beat #2
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> One In A Million? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/13/one-in-a-million/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:02:48 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20139 LYRICS
Why don’t we try that again
Convinced the thrill’s not gone
Won’t you join in the song
Feeling’s coming on strong
Is one in a million
Just and opinion?

Where do you want to begin
Why don’t we try it again
Forego diminishing returns
This ole heart still yearns
The fire inside still burns
Is one in a million
Just an opinion
With those sort of odds
Prying to the wrong gods

One In A Million.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: A Bb / En G A / En A G A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Honey Or Money? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/10/honey-or-money/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:36:35 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20136 LYRICS
Honey,
At the root of all evil is money?
Well, Honey
Found it funny
That I found it Honey

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

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Nailed http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/10/nailed-2/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:27:30 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20134 LYRICS
It’s been a long day pounding in nails
I suppose in comparison it pales
Then being nailed — crucified
They say back in the day
That’s the way
Martyrs died
Widows cried

Getting Nailed.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: G A7 / D C; 66 BPM Rock Ballad
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Did They Say? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/10/did-they-say/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:22:40 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20132 LYRICS
Did they say…
Did they say there’s dues ya have to pay
Did they say?

Did they happen to mention
Was there any suggestion
Did they say
There’s a way

Good news day
No dues today
Did they say…
You’re on your say
Avoid the troll
Avoid the toll

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: D C E D; 120 Entrance
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Foxhole http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/10/foxhole/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:27:54 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20130 LYRICS
Incoming! Incoming!
Pilot to bombardier
If death you fear
You better hunker down
Hunker down!
Out fox the fox
Take command of her
Whole hole
Goal: foxhole
Hunker down
Quit foolin’ round
A serious situation
To the conundrum of a different drummer
Emancipation frustration
Incoming in comer
Where there is a will
There is a way
This will will weigh

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Em Esus4 Em7(11) / Asus4 Gsus4 Fsus4; 200 BPM Polka
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Put Some English On It http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/10/put-some-english-on-it/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:00:38 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20128 LYRICS
One toppled over backwards
The other fell to his knees
Ode to the power of our words
No , you can’t just do as you please
Oh, the cons of pronouns
The proposition of a preposition
A Book Of Proverb of verbs
…. observes….

As one becomes dumbfounded
Another is astounded
Words are mightier than swords
And in lifting spirits onward
Oh the pros of conjunctions
Or adjectives that agitate
Perplex with sentences complex

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: D C G D / E C A; 83 BPM 16 Beat Ballad; 120 BPM Hard Rock
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> What To Do When Lost http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/07/what-to-do-when-lost/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:03:51 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20125 LYRICS
Something tells me
We’ve been here before
Wait! Stop now
Peculiar ritual walking in a circle
Before going further any more
Better straighten out some how
Now!
No need to panic
If you think quick
About the basic facts
… just relax
’cause anxiety
Will screw you for sure
Wait! Stop now
Just relax
Don’t have a heart attack
Try saying a nursery rhyme
To bring you back into time
1, 2
1, 2, 3, 4
Mary had a little lamb
And tied it to a heater
Every time it turned around… it burned it’s little seater

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: E G E / G A E / D A D A / E A; 90 BPM Soft Fusion Groove
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Tickle Your Fancy? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/05/tickle-your-fancy/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:17:38 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20119 LYRICS
Tickle your fancy?
If it tickles your fancy…
I see
I see
Gettin’ the better part of me

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Em9 D7 Dm7(11); 104 BPM Trance #1
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Turnabout http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/04/turnabout/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:28:28 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20116 LYRICS
Turnabout! Tag… and you’re it
Figure out there’s no way to quit?
If you hide, I will seek
Seven days in a week
You’re saying red rover, red rover?
I’m coming right over

Turnabout! Tag… and you’re it
Figure out there’s no way to quit?
When you whisper rumors down the lane
Will it ever end the same
If it’s follow the leader, I’m your man
Come on! Can you kick the can?

Turnabout! Tag… and you’re it
Figure out there’s no way to quit?
Marco? Polo! Open your eyes
This may come as a surprise
Spin the bottle is the only game
That makes me feel I’ll never be the same

Turnabout.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> A Speck http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/03/a-speck/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:44:06 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20113 LYRICS
They call him “salt of the earth”
Ever since his birth
But, aren’t we all mineral… after all?
Some say we’re made from clay
They don’t kid ’bout Adam’s rib
Hard to believe they made ‘er Eve
From dust to dust to dust to dust
Ohhh, the greed… the lust
To dust to dust to dust
Heaven or bust!
Just a hitchhiker on this mass
Don’t mean to be a smacked ass
But, when ya teach hypocrisy class
I just don’t know how long I’ll last
A passenger of the orbit
Really hoping to absorb it
If our days are numbered… spread wit

From dust to dust to dust to dust
Ohhh, the greed… the lust
To dust to dust to dust
Heaven or bust!
Amen

A Speck.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Capo 2 A G D A / E A / D7 A E A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Appreciation http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/04/03/appreciation/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:29:17 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20111 LYRICS
I really appreciate
Your appreciation
No matter the content
There’s lift in the gift
No matter the amount
It’s the thought that counts

I really appreciate
Your appreciation
Every moment of your time…
Sublime

I really appreciate
There’s no hesitation
No hesitation
In your appreciation
Staggering amounts
In your thought that counts

Appreciation Prelude.mp3

Appreciation.mp3

Appreciation Reprise.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: C#7sus4 F#m7(11) / E D A E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Accountable http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/31/accountable/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:15:42 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20109 LYRICS
One and done?
Too and two
Free from three
For for more
I’m hoping you can see
You can always count on me
To be what you want to be
As long as that’s happy

Invest completely
In your mortality
Only certainty
Is death… eventually

Are you seeing clearly
You can always count on me
Be it clear or gloomy
To be living happily

Accountable.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Where Did The Time Go? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/29/where-did-the-time-go/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:00:37 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20103 LYRICS
Is time slipping by
Slipping by
By the minute
Give a hint?
Is time slipping by
Slipping bye
Bye-bye
Ask me why
Is our hour
Almost over
To discover
Our hour
Turns to day, today
By the way, our hour
From our todays
Found ways
To slip away
To days today to years
So I ask why
Is time slipping by
Slipping bye-bye
I meant
Give a hint?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Dm E / F Em D / Dm D Dsus4; 176 BPM Jive
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Overdue http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/29/overdue/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:50:20 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20101 LYRICS
Doing this and doing that
It’s not clear
Where is there
Or if I’m here
Feeling overdue
So something simple will do
Are you feeling it, too?
Do you feel it? Do you?

Running here n’ running there
It’s not clear
Where is there
Or if I’m near

Feather ruffle caught up in the shuffle
It’s not clear
What is what
Or should I fear?

Get a grip n’ take a dip
It’s come clear
There is there
And I’m right here

Overdue.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A / E G A / D G A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> How To Play http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/28/how-to-play/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:27:18 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20098 LYRICS
To refrain from going insane
It try to maintain play every day
When I was very young
I started to hum
Wasn’t too long ’til you could hum along
The period brief ’til I had teeth
This’ll be my time to whistle
Then look at me learn to tickle ivory
How about a bugle call to rally ya’ll
To come out and play a song
Or just sing along
And if by chance you can dance?
We might even foster romance
Faster foster, foster faster… enhance

The years went by and I didn’t die
So, I gave the guitar a try
Took me back to the days
When I was young
And learned how to hum
Though through the years there was grief
At least I still have my teeth
So, this’ll be the break to whistle
[whistle Andy In Mayberry Theme song]

How To Play.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Em7(11) A7sus4 / Em7(11) Em Em7 / C G / D C G / G B Em / Em(11) slide to Em
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> The Look http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/26/the-look/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:28:42 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20094 LYRICS
If you look around
You just might find
It’s not that hard
To be kind
Open the window
Into your soul
Define humanity’s goal
Come on down
Look around
Shake the clown
Being found

If you look outside
Then above
It’s not that hard
To find love
Open the window
Into your soul
Define
Your earthly role
Come on down
Look around
Shake the clown
Being found

Done the look within
Now look out
It’s not that hard
To find out
Light escapes
The black hole
Come on down
Look around
Shake the clown
Being found

Look at me
Was blind now see
The way that things
Can be
The though in “we”
Eventually
Creates our destiny
Wills free
Freewill ’til
Eternity

The Look.mp3

The Look Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: E G A C / C E Bm A
Recording: digital 4-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> When It’s In The Light http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/23/when-its-in-the-light/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:00:53 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20092 LYRICS
If I knew now, what I knew then
When I knew now, if I knew then
I suppose I’m one of those
IN the here and now
So, somehow it’s not hard to see
Not for “we” when we’re bright
IN the light
Not hard to see wrong from right
When it’s in the light
Understanding when your standing
Not hard to see, really
When it’s in the light
If I knew now
Now from then
What I knew than when?
Not hard for me to see
Not hard for me to see we
When we see
In the light
Wrong from right
When it’s in the light

When It’s In The Light Prelude.mp3

When It’s In The Light.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: F#m E; 77 BPM Analog Pop and Ambient #1
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Dying To Meet You http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/23/dying-to-meet-you/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:54:37 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20090 LYRICS
I’m dying to meet you
Every day I’m on my way
Dying to meet you
Every day from babe to grave
Dying to meet you
Every day one less saved
One day closer to the grave
Dying to meet you
Good, God!
I’m not dead yet
With all due respect
Please forget
The above
I can’t wait ’til a later date
Dying to meet you
And make do
With the love
Waiting to meet you

Dying To Meet You Prelude.mp3

Dying To Meet You.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: E / D F E (Minor and Major); 100 BPM Funk Pop and Shuffle Boogie
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> 1, 2, 3, Flow! http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/23/1-2-3-flow/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:42:08 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20088 LYRICS
On your marks, get set
1, 2… 1, 2, 3, 4
Assume your position with all your passion
On your marks, get set
Flow!

Joined the race to embrace the pace
On your marks, get set
Flow!

Float in the traffic of the human fabric
On your marks, get set
Flow!

Floating up bliss creek
You don’t need a paddle
Can’t sprain a leak
Now you’re back in the saddle

1, 2, 3, Flow.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: E G A G A E / E up 1 step back 1/2 step to G7 then slide to E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Cry, Baby, Cry http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/22/cry-baby-cry/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:55:01 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20082 LYRICS
Weighing heavy on the bow, now
When the bow bends
When the bow breaks
It’s more than my baby can take
Wailing in the wind, wow
When the wind blows
My brow will break
Watching my baby fall for me
Changing destiny
Cry, baby, cry
Cry
Turn to the East
Turn to the West
As you fall from your nest
Turn to the one you love best!

Cry Baby Cry.mp3

Cry Baby Cry Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about a March snow storm disguised as a love song.
Style: Alternative Rock / Jazz
Chords: A7 E7 / G7 walkdown to E7
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Xylophone, Trumpet, Drums

From the album Omega-ga
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Lip Service http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/21/lip-service/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:47:47 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20079 Hyper-terrestrial
presents Lip Service

A sonic experiment transcending space and time.
Instrumental music: Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard, MiniNova Synthesizer, MicroKorg, Casio WK-3500, Korg PS60, Xylophone, Drums, Guitars, Trumpet

]]> All The While Child http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/21/all-the-while-child/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:32:09 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20077 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

]]> “Being” Redundant http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/20/being-redundant/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:42:07 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20075 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

]]> The “Heaven Is Stagnation?” Blues http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/19/the-heaven-is-stagnation-blues/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:17:54 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20073 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

]]> The Days Of Freedom http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/17/the-days-of-freedom/ Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:12:19 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20064 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!

]]> Through Glue http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/16/through-glue/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:38:26 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20060 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

]]> Keeper http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/16/keeper/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:27:35 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20058 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

]]> An Earthling Thing http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/14/an-earthling-thing/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:11:33 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20054 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!

]]> Overhear http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/14/overhear/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:04:33 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20052 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

]]> Skullduggery http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/13/skullduggery-2/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:07:02 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20050 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

]]> Sort-of http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/12/sort-of/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:22:09 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20048 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

]]> Together Whether http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/10/together-whether/ Sat, 10 Mar 2018 14:48:42 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20042 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

]]> I Don’t Know? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/09/i-dont-know/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:58:29 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20040 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

]]> Talking To The Wall (Part 1) http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/08/talking-to-the-wall-part-1/ Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:41:32 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20038 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!

]]> Heaven On Earth http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/07/heaven-on-earth/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:40:10 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20034 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

]]> Word And Deed http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/word-and-deed/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:25:58 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20017 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

]]> Power http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/power/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:24:02 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20030 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

]]> Lamplight http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/lamplight/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:18:53 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20028 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

]]> Blackout http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/blackout/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:11:28 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20026 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

]]> Power Outage http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/power-outage/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:02:28 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20024 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

]]> A Dam Good Joke http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/a-dam-good-joke/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:44:37 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20021 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

]]> What Do We Want? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/03/06/what-do-we-want/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:34:58 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20018 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

]]> Serpent http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/28/serpent/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:05:44 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20011 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

]]> Know Nukes http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/27/know-nukes/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:56:29 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20008 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

]]> This Song http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/26/this-song/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:22:50 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=20005 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

]]> Middlemen, Man http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/25/middlemen-man/ Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:57:29 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19996 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

]]> Creature Comforts http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/23/creature-comforts/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:52:08 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19992 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

]]> Bulletproof http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/23/bulletproof/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:37:58 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19988 LYRICS
Wearing the truth
Bulletproof
To tell the truth
Bulletproof
The shield won’t yield
Got it on like Teflon
Bulletproof

Bulletproof.mp3

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

Style: Alternative Rock / Protest Folk
Chords: E A B7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present

]]> In The Afterall http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/20/in-the-afterall/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:13:01 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19983 LYRICS
In the afterall, after all
Enthrall
All call
Drop the gull
‘en haul
In the afterall
After all
Small maul
If at all
If I’m the lull in time, I’m…
Small stall sprawl
About throughout
Threw out
Scrawl wherewithal on the wall

Appall the apple of the I ball
Heal all
After all
Enthrall all
In the afterall, after all

Head the call of the herd
So, you’ve heard
Tell them all
Scrawl wherewithal on the wall
Cull the herd
So, they’ve heard
Scrawl wherewithal on the wall

In The Afterall.mp3

In The Afterall Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive
Chords: Dm Dm7 C Dm
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Give It All http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/19/give-it-all/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:41:30 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19980 LYRICS
Nothing left to do
But to pursue
Give it all I got?
Sure, why not!
The dog was in the doghouse
Can you tell me who’s to blame
Are you calling out my name?
Not “whatever” “all the same”

What more can I do
But to pursue
Go the final yard
It’s not that hard

What about for you
Whatcha gonna do
Give it all you’ve got?
Come on! Why not?

Give It All.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: C G D Am C Em / Em Am C D
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Encore http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/18/encore/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:43:26 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19967 LYRICS
Beyond execute
Absent rebuke
Remember the follow through
Hope I do
Follow through
Hope I remember to
Hope I remember
Final number
Then encore
Then some more

It’s time to embrace
The start of the race
Run after the starting gun
Hope I do
Remember to
Finishing line run through

The optimists
Within exists
Remember we’re not through
Body’s dead
The life we led
Get to start anew?

Encore.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A Em / C D / G D A / Em A D
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Floodlight http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/18/floodlight/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:37:40 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19965

LYRICS
Seeking shelter
From Helter Skelter
All hell
Is breaking loose
Farewell
If we don’t choose
Fight or flight?
You better ask
If we multitask

When viewed
You’ve come unglued
Time to be subdued
Lewd, rude, crude

Flood the hate
With the love
Flood the light
From above
Not too late
Flood with love
Suffocate hate
Show ’em what we’re made of?
We’re made of love

The insight of floodlight
Floodlight incite in sight
Invite floodlight

Floodlight (Music Video).mp4

Floodlight.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Am G F G G Am
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Pair-a-d-eyes http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/17/pair-a-d-eyes/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:25:09 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19957

LYRICS
Handicap. Have you got one, too?
All of us, just trying to get through
Following orders… hut, 1, 2
Starting to think that just won’t do
In your eyes
I see paradise
Realize
Eyes on the prize
Life before it dies

Drum Castle

Drum Castle

Stuck inside your castle walls
Waiting ’til the kingdom falls
Can’t escape your nightmares
Regain hope and lose your fears
In your eyes
I see paradise
Realize
Eyes on the prize
Life before it dies
Life before us lies

The captain says you may move about
Just as long as you don’t venture out
Quite the contrary revolutionary
Weight of the world on your shoulders carry
In your eyes
I see paradise
Realize
Eyes on the prize
Life before us lies

Pair-a-d-eyes AltMix (Music Video).mp4

Pair-a-d-eyes.mp3

Pair-a-d-eyes (unplugged).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Capo 2 Em C7 / Em D / Em Esus4
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Definition Of Being http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/16/definition-of-being/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:49:27 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19953 LYRICS
Counting my blessings
Life’s for the taking
Soul-to-soul caressing
Lives in the making

What it is you did
Can’t be rid or hid
What it is you do
Will define you
What I’ll come to be
Is really up to me

As time is fleeting
Life’s for the taking
Before completing
Life’s in the making

Simultaneous us
Lives for the taking
The glorious us
Lives in the making

Definition Of Being.mp3

Definition Of Being Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: D A C E / E C A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Where To? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/15/where-to/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:18:10 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19951 LYRICS
Where are you going
Aware… or not knowing?
Rabbit’s circle jump off track
Never looking back
Do you feel the coup
Of the loopity lou
Can you tell me where you’re going to?

Being a bleeder follow the leader
Stampede off a cliff
Hey! Lemmings, to be seceder
Gotta ask “what if?”

Bling lead the bling ain’t being kind
Need I remind
We gotta take a stance where we stand
Do you understand?

Where To?.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Protest / Folk
Chords: Em7 Em E / E Bm E / A7 E’s
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

]]> Some Faith http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/14/some-faith/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:29:41 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19947 LYRICS
Cantaloupe colored border dog?
Why so melancholy
Let the princess kiss the frog
Find the jolly in the folly
Have some faith in yourself
Beyond the eve of believe
What is your life on the shelf
Wearing your heart on your sleeve

Choking on goose feathers?
Why so down in the mouth
If you want to weather whethers
Join the union, fight the south
(chorus)

Stub your toe on the pale
Not ready to kick the bucket
If the sight of ghosts makes you ail
Look that devil in the “I”… and say, #uck it!”
(chorus)

Some Faith.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: C7 Esus4 / A7 C / C9 C C7
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> All You Can Eat (Sitting In with the Band) http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/13/all-you-can-eat-sitting-in-with-the-band/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:36:17 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19942 LYRICS
Hi!
I’m feeling “Hi!”
If you’re feeling low
I know just the place to go
Stop right on by
Feeling “Hi!”
Understand sitting in with the band
Come and join-in in the play
You’re bound to find a whole “knew” way

You can be what you want to be
I’m telling you dreams come true
Believe me, Lordie!

All You Can Eat.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Country / Folk
Recording: digital stereo

Ricky — Bass
Stu-ie — Guitar
Tommy — Guitar
Tomcat — Banjo
Danny — Multi-instrumentalist
Jimmy — Applause and Musings

From the album Reinhart O’connor Wagner Eck Brouse & Brouse
by Reinhart, O’connor, Wagner, Eck, Brouse & Brouse

]]> Life Savings Time http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/13/life-savings-time/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:21:30 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19940 LYRICS
Can we find a way
That each and every day
Back the clock back
Define daily standard time:
Fall back one hour
I’m for our life savings time

Counterclockwise
Wise compromise
Is it a big deal
TO day-to-day steal
A 60 minute bit
Or will Mother Nature throw a fit?

Ripping the continuum
Asking if I am?

Life Savings Time.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: E7 E E7sus4 / D6sus2 C#dim/D G
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Butterfly Wings http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/12/butterfly-wings/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:03:32 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19937 LYRICS
Of all the things
She sings
Of butterfly wings
Catching the drift: The uplift of the uplift…
Uplifting
When flapping wings
Chaotically brings
“Attached with strings”
Catching the drift: The uplift of the uplift…
Uplifting
Do ra me do
Sing a tornado
The I of the know

Appears that I am
Chaotic system
Un-ordered as I may be
Skin makes it me
The humility of humanity
Someday maybe
Set free

Butterfly Wings.mp3

Butterfly Wings Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: A7 E7sus4 / C7 Em7 A7
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Marching Orders http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/10/marching-orders/ Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:29:18 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19935 LYRICS
We’ll go marching
We’ll go marching
Will go marching
On parade
Not afraid
To exercise
Freewill
Beyond wade
Gonna swim
I am
We’ll go swimming
We’ll go swimming
Will go swimming
In the see
Time to be
The eye of I’s
Freewill
Gonna fly
We will
We’ll go flying
We’ll go flying
Will go flying
Into the eye
Hurricane of the brain
Train sane
The kind to mind the mind kind
King mind

Marching Orders.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Em G A / A G A Em A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Above The Noise http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/08/above-the-noise/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:46:44 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19928 Hyper-terrestrial

presents
Above The Noise
A sonic experiment transcending space and time.
Instrumental music: Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard, MiniNova Synthesizer, MicroKorg, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, Piano, Drums, Guitars

]]> It Is http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/08/it-is/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:40:56 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19917 LYRICS
Why do you think it is…
Is turns to was?
What’s all the fuss
What’s all the buzz
’cause I’m telling ya…
It always does

When do you think will…
Will stand still?
Hoping it’s long until
We lose that thrill
’cause I’m asking ya…
Have you had your fill?

Now find out how…
How is right now
Maybe time will allow
Us to love the “wow!”
’cause she’s telling us
Seize the here and now
Turning sword into plough
Sowing seeds that endow

It Is (music video).mp4

It Is.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E7sus4 E / G A E
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards

From the album The Present
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Flip http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/07/flip/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:31:53 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19912 LYRICS
Flip your lid and fill ‘er up
No quid pro quo measuring cup
A deal’s a deal be it love or war
Hypocrisy will cut it no more
Wade into the spotlight
The colors fade
No shade of gray is white
Right can not trade
Gonna run
Or stick to your guns
Gonna fight
Or spread wings for flight

Done you did and that is that
Egg-on-face big fat cat
Choke it up… feed kitty
Owing dues sure ain’t pretty

Flip.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Capo 2 A Em G / A G Em / Em D Em / Em open (F#m11) / Em G A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Then Some http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/06/then-some/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:50:15 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19909 LYRICS
I see the memory
Distorts reality
The good ole days
Aren’t as good as todays
History passes before rose colored glasses
Welcome to “the best is yet to come”
Then some….

My recollection
Tinged by selection
The glory days
Aren’t as good as todays
Welcome to “the best is yet to come”
Then some….

I see that the dream
Can be seen
The scene of yesterdays
Isn’t as good as today’s
Welcome to “the best is yet to come”
Then some….

Today’s quite O.K.
Evermore tomorrow
I’ll let the past pass
And grab now while it lasts
Welcome to “the best is yet to come”
Then some….

Then Some.mp3

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

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Unstill http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/05/unstill/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:33:52 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19906 LYRICS
Some may come
Some may go
Others… hell no!
Some… ya never know
Some are dumb
Some they know
Rise above
Let love grow
Rather friend than foe
Unstill my heart
Fulfill let’s start

Take, take, take
Big mistake
Live to give
Lose or win
Am I genuine… or fake
Unstill my heart
Fulfill let’s start

La, la, la
Or, woe ohhh…
Blah, blah, blah
Or, go, go
Ahhhhh… yeah, yeah, yeah
Unstill my heart
Fulfill let’s start

Unstill.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Am C D / Am C Em / Em Am
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Fly Like An Eagle http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/04/fly-like-an-eagle/ Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:36:52 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19904 Coversong written and made famous by Steve Miller

Fly Like An Eagle AltMix.mp3

Am                                C, D
Tick, tock, tick, do- do- doo-doo 
Am                                C, D
Tick, tock, tick, do- do- doo-doo
Am                              C       D          Am     C, D
Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'  into the future 
Am                              C       D          Am     C, D
Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'  into the future 

D         Am          D    Dm7         Am
I want to fly like an eagle,    to the sea.
Am          D             Dm7          Am                        D    Dm7
Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me, I want to fly like an eagle,
Dm7      Am     Am        D               Dm7,  Am 
'til I'm free.  Fly right through the revolution.

            Am                   C                    D
(I want to) Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat, 
D        Am                C              D
Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet.
D         Am      C             D
House the people, livin' in the streets.
Am                C     D
Oh--  there's a solution.

D         Am          D    Dm7         Am
I want to fly like an eagle,    to the sea.
Am          D             Dm7          Am                        D    Dm7
Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me, I want to fly like an eagle,
Dm7      Am     Am        D               Dm7,  Am 
'til I'm free.  Fly right through the revolution.

Am                                C, D
Tick, tock, tick, do- do- doo-doo 
Am                                C, D
Tick, tock, tick, do- do- doo-doo
Am                              C       D          Am     C, D
Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'  into the future 
Am                              C       D          Am     C, D
Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'  into the future 

D       Am          D    Dm7         Am
I wanna fly like an eagle,    to the sea.
Am          D             Dm7          Am                        D    Dm7
Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me, I want to fly like an eagle,
Dm7      Am     Am        D               Dm7,  Am 
'til I'm free.  Fly right through the revolution.

Style: Alternative Classic Rock
Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up

]]> Count To Six http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/04/count-to-six/ Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:00:52 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19900 LYRICS
One at a time
Going down the line
Two at a time
Double-down divine
Feeling fine

And what about
Three strikes you’re out
Before four
Just need one more
Four sure

Barely alive
Passing by five
Not a peep
At six feet deep
… that’s deep!

Dead on
Hit the nail on the head
Carry on
Unflail the dread
Dawned on
Enlightened my head
Beyond
where the logic led
Philosophy wed
(Fertile field bred)

Count To Six.mp3

Count To Six Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Em G A / G A Em A
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> The Cost of Being Lost http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/03/the-cost-of-being-lost/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 19:38:45 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19897 LYRICS
Please excuse me
Did somebody lose me
And would you hear
“Where do we go from here?”
Where do we go from here

Please steer clear
Getting too near
It’s easy to see
We don’t want to go there
Aware, we don’t want to go there

Meander away
Bewildered all day
What do you say
Maybe we lost our way
Perhaps we lost our way?

The Cost of Being Lost.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A(add D) A / Em A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Our Bizarre Bazaar http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/03/our-bizarre-bazaar/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 15:45:03 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19894 LYRICS
We’re really not that far
Bizarre bazaar
Sideshow for sale
Bizarre bazaar
Save an epic fail
Account for what we are
Two I’s with two eyes
I see two I’s are we
Together you and me — we

We’re really not that far
Bizarre bazaar
Cause the wail of the whale
Seal the fate of the seal
Account for our big deal
Save an epic fail
Account for what we are
Two I’s with two eyes
I see two I’s are we
Together you and me — we

Bizarre Bazaar.mp3

Bizarre Bazaar Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about humans exploiting the earth’s natural resources.

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: AM7 A Em G A
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Miracle Of Life http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/03/miracle-of-life/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 15:11:09 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19892 LYRICS
Thinking about the blood flow
Making it go head to toe
I amaze myself
With physical existence wealth
Don’t even need to think to blink
Nor flick a switch to start the heart
Into the craze
Of the ways that amaze
“I’m alive!”
Drive, body, drive

Miracle Of Life.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Dm Fsus4 F C C7 F
Recording: digital 4-track stereo

Vocals, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Dimwit http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/02/01/dimwit/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:33:39 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19887 LYRICS
Just when I thought
The wall’s
Tumblin’ down
I look around
And, found…
Absurd sound:
“And, Mexico is going to pay for it!”
(The name of the song is called, “Dimwit”

 

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about building walls.
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Eb, Ebsus4 Ebm; Tango 157 BPM
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> The Skies Are Crying http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/31/the-skies-are-crying/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:06:25 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19884 LYRICS
The skies are crying
Over nature lyin’
(Lion?!?! [Roar])
Ignorance is no excuse
Gonna cut us loose
The skies are crying
Over nature dying
Ignorance is no excuse
Gonna cut us loose
All that you / I / we spew
Gonna rain back down on you
The dent of a carbon footprint
Gonna imprint
My, but…
Ass-k me know questions
I’ll tell you know lies
In “the end” everybody dies
Until then
What if everybody tries?

The Skies Are Crying.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about human induced climate change denial.
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: G F Gsus4 / Bb G
Recording: digital 6-track stereo
Vocals, Electric Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Flesh Flight Suit http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/30/flesh-flight-suit/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:16:10 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19882 LYRICS
Hope you brought your goggles
Wind whipped watering eye
As you mind boggles
Wind of vain waters your I
Eventually the wind will die
Exponentially the answer to why
As I/eye observe
Under the curve

Photons traveling at the speed of light
Pass right through the windshield
You’re on to something… ideas bright
Spinning molten core of ore’s magnetic field
(interlude: momentary lapse of magnetic field)
Chorus

Colliding with stardust
Bust stardust that’s us
Pinprick holes add to our pores
As the starlight pours
(Chorus)

Flesh Flight Suit.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about Earth as our spaceship and the delicate nature of our atmosphere. The atmosphere protects humans in many ways, including stopping billions of little meteors from passing through our bodies. Remember to appreciate friction, too… not only does it burn up all those meteors, it also stops us from dying every time it rains.

Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A C7 / Em C / C Bb A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Up Upfront http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/29/up-upfront/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:39:51 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19878 LYRICS
I find it most compelling
That you are yelling
“Down in front!”
I find it most revealing
That you are screaming
“Down in front!”
Why not just get up
And put your feet on your seat
Please give it up
Clap your hands
Stomp your feet
To the beat

I find it most relieving
That you’re believing
Up upfront!
The zest you’re retrieving
Makes me feel I’m living
“Down in front!”

Why not just get up
And put your feet on your seat
Please give it up
Clap your hands
Stomp your feet
To the beat

Up Upfront.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A C / D E A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Under The Whether http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/27/under-the-whether/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:36:54 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19875 LYRICS
Walking ’round under sky so blue
Wondering if it’s true… am I under the weather
Under the weather
Yes, it’s true, when its’ raining down on you
Without doubt — under the weather
Under the weather
But there’s nor to interfere
With my atmosphere
Skies are clear
Is it “fair” to say “under the weather”
Under the weather

Walking ’round under sky so blue
Wandering… is it true… am I under the whether
Under the whether
Yes, it’s true, when the hail reigns on you
Without doubt — under the whether
Under the whether
But there’s nor to interfere
With my atmosphere
Skies are clear
Is it “fair” to say “under the weather”
Under the weather/whether

Additional Verses
Yes, I know, when you’re getting snow
It’s easy to know you’re under the weather

For crying out loud! It’s a giant cloud
I’m aware… under the weather

Under The Whether.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A Eb4 F# E
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Acts Of God http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/26/acts-of-god/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:38:08 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19872 LYRICS
An earthquake near
Eruption far
Acts of God
Are so bizarre
Our so bizarre
Ever so odd
When lightening strikes
It is the time
Where lightening strikes
It is the place
Now I know I’m
Part of the human race
RUN!

(starting to dawn the race is on)

Extreme weather fear
I don’t endear
At least it’s clear
I’ve made it this far
Acts of God
Are so bizarre
Our so bizarre
Ever so odd

Acts Of God.mp3

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

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> World’s Gone Mime http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/23/worlds-gone-mime/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:13:51 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19869 LYRICS
Maybe by disguising the words I’m saying
They’ll be digesting as word playing:
In some far off distant land
They are praying
For a President
Gone mad
In some far out distant time
They can’t understand
Why so bad?
Maybe it was long, long ago
Does anybody (anyone) know?
World’s gone mime
The president of President dent
Head banging
Boom-a-ranging
Turned down
Frown
Sad
May I lend
“The End”

World’s Gone Mime.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: Em C / Em C D G / G F# Em
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

]]> Miss Giving http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/22/miss-giving/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:06:24 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19867 LYRICS
What is the point of our misgiving
Lack of forgiving
Have you done your time
Have I done mine?

Miss Giving.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: Gb Ebm7 Ebm
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Electric Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Cross The Line http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/19/cross-the-line/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:36:17 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19862 LYRICS
Know your toe/tow is over the line?
… for the final time
You’re stepping over the line
Onto the side known as “mine”
Crossing the line
Of black and white
Can’t be right
Not long
From wrong
Please don’t try n’ say
You thought it gray
When the shading ain’t that fine
Crossing the line

Sign on the dotted line
Selling soul for a dime
Step to “the end” of the line
The space you’re in’s known as mine
(chorus)

Between love and hate there is no fine line
That line won’t buy you time
At “the end of times”, reverse the line
On the last supper dine
(chorus)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E G E A G E / A E A B7
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Be Freed http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/18/be-freed/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:23:43 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19857 Be Freed.mp3

LYRICS
Which came first, the chicken or the egg…
I beg?
Why did the chicken cross the road…
Please unload?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

If a tree falls in a vacant forest, does it make a sound…
Please resound?
Knock, knock! Who’s there…
Are you aware?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

When first come last and last first…
Will you thirst?
At the crossroads: the devil, your soul…
What’s the toll?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

African or European, your sparrow…
If asked to narrow?
Would you bet the sun to set, yet…
Still stand still?
Can you be freed if never caged
Or live a life unengaged?

Be Freed Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: A G / C Em A
Recording: digital 8-track stereo

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Hard Of Hearing? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/17/hard-of-hearing/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:27:28 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19853 LYRICS
Are you hard of hearing?
I can see where this conversation’s steering
Where you’re leading
My ears are bleeding!

Up to my ears in __it!
“It doesn’t really matter”
Couldn’t get much sadder
Maybe we could listen
To the position
Of reason….
’tis the season
To S.O.S.? Confess
Save our souls
Before your next die rolls

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: Em E Em7 E7 Esus4 E7(11)
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Bangkok Time http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/17/bangkok-time/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:20:05 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19850 LYRICS
Rock the clock like Bangkok (+12 hours)
Ya ought ‘a Jakarta (+12)
Come on, Boy, like Hanoi (+12)
You know you can even go to Tokyo? (+14)
Living in a time zone
Where I’m prone
To run fast
Living in a time zone
Where mind’s blown
Free at last

Want to start slow? Try Oslo (+6)
Or way down in Freetown (+5)
Time flies by? Try Dubai (+9)
As for me, I’m rarin’ like a Yarenian (+17)
Living in a time zone
Where I’m prone
To run fast
Living in a time zone
Where mind’s blown
Free at last

Still standing still in Guayaquil? (same time)
Or minus a few in Honolulu (-5)
Come on Ketchup to Hamburg (+6)
Gonna do what I can do in Katmandu (+10:45)
Living in a time zone
Where I’m prone
To run fast
Living in a time zone
Where mind’s blown
Free at last

Bangkok Time.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about time zones compared to my relative position in the Eastern Standard Time (EST). [subtract an hour for Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)]  Inspired by a friend who runs about 12 hours fast.

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

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Setting The Sights http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/16/setting-the-sights/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:48:21 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19843 LYRICS
Setting the sights to where we are
Because where we are…
… isn’t that far
The closest star —
The sun?
Done.
Setting the sights to where we are
Look! You’re really not far
From being the star
Guess gravity gave the sway
’cause look! We’re on our way
Suppose we’ve already been
Travelin’
In
Feel the pull china shop bull?
Our sights are set…
Not that far
Just about where we are
Prayin’ the orbit holds “up” a bit
’round n’ ’round in the same ole habit

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Electronic
Chords: G F6 / C F G; 118 BPM Slow Rock and Handbag
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Building A Bridge http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/16/building-a-bridge/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:43:13 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19845 LYRICS
Building a bridge
Using a rocket ship
Going to make heaven
A real short trip
Countdown: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
Begin
Don’t burn it, baby
Save the chance of “maybe”
Nope
Don’t give up the hope
To enhance
[Interlude: build a musical bridge here]

Building a bridge
Over the unravel
Go out on a ledge
Nouveau-travel
Don’t burn bridges, baby
Give love a chance
Hold on to maybe
A chance to enhance

Building A Bridge Part 2.mp3

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Electronic
Chords: Asus4 G6 / A7 A Asus / A G; 8 Beat Rock and Heavy Metal
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> To Know http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/15/to-know/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:42:50 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19838 LYRICS
For now there’s comfort “to know”
No stopping “to know”
For now, it’s come to me
We’re free
To know “to know”
Can you turn up the volume…
Some?
Let the riff run
Free to know
Free to see
Free to know
Up to me
To see
“To know”
To be

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Electronic
Chords: Em / Gsus4 Fsus4 Emsus4 Dmsus4 Csus4 Dmsus4 Emsus4
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Into the Light of the Night http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/15/into-the-light-of-the-night/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:35:56 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19835 LYRICS
The result of self-defeating
Is a mental beating
So why not give yourself a lift
With a soulful soul full of rift/riff
What do you say…
We let the music play?
Soulful soul full of riff/rift
Giving the gift
Of a fresh lick
The gift of music

Victim of mental beating
Don’t let it be self-defeating
So why not give yourself a lift
With a soulful soul full of rift/riff
What do you say…
We let the music play?
Soulful soul full of riff/rift
Giving the gift
Of a fresh lick
The gift of music
… let the music play
All day
Into the light of the night
Into the delight of all night

Into the Light of the Night.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: G F# E / D6 E
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Fill-er-up
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Lip-sink http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/12/lip-sink/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:47:31 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19833 Hyper-terrestrial

presents
“Lip-sink”

A sonic experiment transcending space and time.
Instrumental music: Korg PS60 Keyboard, Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard, MiniNova Synthesizer, MicroKorg, Casio WK3500, Korg N364, Guitars, Drums

]]> At The Ball (with a Drunken Sailor) http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/12/at-the-ball-with-a-drunken-sailor/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:48:43 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19831 LYRICS
Yes, I’m having a ball
Aren’t we all?
’cause it runs the whole spectrum
Heave ho! And a bottle of rum
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
The most president public servant
Savant-less idiot-savant
Nooo… savant has not
His brilliance is in ignorance?
Redeeming quality?
… I can not see….
Being nothing in his being
It’s hard believing
Of his brain conceiving

Yes, I’m having a ball
Aren’t we all?
’cause it runs the whole spectrum
Heave ho! And a bottle of rum
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Put him to bed with the Captain’s daughter*
Hit him in the head with leather n’ lead
Give us relief from the commander and chief
For I foresee mutiny!
As for you, do you, too?
You can count on me
It’s plain to see… in need of a mutiny
(If he walks the plank, it’s you I’ll thank.)

At The Ball (with a Drunken Sailor).mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
* A captain’s daughter is a leather and lead weapon similar to a blackjack.

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: Em add4 Em add Bb Em Em add2 C Am
Recording: 1-track digital stereo / original take
Vocals, Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

]]> Steamroller http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/11/steamroller/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:28:30 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19828 LYRICS
Under the steamroller
How much more can you take
Flat as a pancake
Under the steamroller

Run over… bulldozer
Causing bones to break
Is life really at stake
Run over by a bulldozer

Do you know what I mean
A destructive scene
Environmental shred
You should’ve seen what I’ve seen
Streets paved mean
Multiplying the dead
Until somebody said:
So, what if we sow
A reap that we want to keep
Hey, what do you know
Maybe our love runs deep
Picked up by a Samaritan
Thank her again and again
Goodwill can move a mountain
And let the light shine in

Do you know what I mean
A peaceful scene
Environmental bred
You should’ve seen what I’ve seen
Streets paved with a sheen
Multiplying loaves of bread

Steamroller.mp3

Steamroller Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E / G A E / A E B7
Recording: digital 6-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Better Off http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/10/better-off/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:49:39 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19823 LYRICS
As the end draws near
Does one start to fear
“I might be better off dead”
Are you ever better off dead
… ever better off dead?

Have you ever heard it said
“It’s all in your head”?
Have you ever gone to bed
Looking forward to what’s ahead

As it gets near the end
Does one’s life depend
On being better off dead
Are you ever better off dead
… ever better off dead?

Once the children are sleeping
The dreaming is sweeping
On the road to keeping
Peacekeeping

When you’re on your last leg
Already kicked the keg
Have you become such a dread
Wishing for “better off dead”?
Are you ever better off dead
… ever better off dead?

Better Off.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: Am Em Am / Am Dsus2/E / C Em Am / C G C G D / D Db Am
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

]]> What’s That? http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/09/whats-that/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:22:38 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19819 LYRICS
What’s that? Runnin’ round naked
Suspect hard to neglect
Quaking… foundation shaked
Waked — the origins of intellect
What the heck?

Started as hairless apes
Started shifting shapes
Clothing, leaves of grapes
Save us from disgrace
(save face)

Tainted… forbidden fruit
Garden… got the boot
Work… toil the soil
Strain… give birth in pain
Insane?

Given birth on Earth
Habit kickin’ habitat
What’s that? Stable genius
Less n’ less amongst us

What’s That.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive / Folk
Chords: E G / A C / C E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Short Change http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/08/short-change/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:36:27 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19815 LYRICS
Some things you just can’t change
Others you can rearrange
An object in motion stays in motion
No matter your personal notion
Time rolls on
Dawn of dawn

One person’s trash is an other’s treasure
One person’s work is an other’s leisure
One person’s passion is an other’s pain
One person’s fashion is an other’s vain

Caterpillar’s ending… butterfly’s beginning
A king’s demanding as pauper’s begging
First to draw the last straw
Frozen winter starts to thaw

Start to begin and the end’s done in
Begin to start… the ends depart
For sure the future will endure
Even as the present passes to past
Time rolls on
Dawn of dawn

Short Change.mp3

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

Vocals, Guitar

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Beyond Comprehension http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/08/beyond-comprehension/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:35:09 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19810 A sonic experiment transcending space and time.

Matt Eck: Guitar
Daniel: Korg PS60 Keyboard, Yamaha PSR-740 Keyboard, MiniNova Synthesizer, MicroKorg, Casio WK-3500

]]> The New Sedition http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/05/the-new-sedition/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:28:24 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19808 LYRICS
One by one by one
Voices adding up
Too by too by too
Voices rising up
Three by three by three
The masses lining up
Four for four for more
The masses acting up
It’s the new sedition
The new sensation
It’s the knew sedition
Disruptive nation

Five by five by five
Voices come alive!
Six by six by six
A RESISTANCE! fix
Seven by seven by seven
Earth and heaven
Eight by eight by eight
Open up the gate!
It’s the new sedition
The new sensation
It’s the knew sedition
Disruptive nation

The New Sedition.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song inspired by Iran’s supreme leader and the protests of the “New Sedition”:

Supreme Leader Khamenei has blamed the protests on enemies of Iran. And, today, the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard sent troops into three provinces to put down what he called the new sedition.

Iran’s supreme leader was in a supremely sarcastic mood Tuesday as he gave a speech to a sea of military officials. His target: Trump’s first foreign policy moves.

“We actually thank this new president! We thank him, because he made it easier for us to reveal the real face of the United States,” said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a transcript posted on his official website. “… Now, with everything he is doing — handcuffing a child as young as 5 at an airport — he is showing the reality of American human rights.”

Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: Em C Am Em / Em E / F# G E
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

]]> Bomb Cyclone http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/04/bomb-cyclone/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:40:23 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19804 LYRICS
Extreme whether?
Extreme weather!
Volatile all the while
Seekin’ shelter
Takin’ cover
Careful what you wish…
Might start raining frozen fish
Please don’t leave me standing all alone…
Bomb cyclone

Feel the genesis
Of bombogenesis
Adaptation of Revelation
Cyclical biblical
Of portion proportion
Seekin’ shelter
Takin’ cover
Careful what you wish…
Might start raining frozen fish
Please don’t leave me standing all alone…
Bomb cyclone

Could be the feaster of a Nor’ Easter
Jumbo shrimp? No need to skimp
Should be a whale of a wail tail/tale
When the mumbo bombo bomb cyclone hits home
If I had my druthers,
I’d rather mainly Maine lobsters*
(*tales hold the clause / tails hold the claws)
Floundering in flounder-ings
I’m up to my ass in sea bass
Careful what you wish…
Might start raining frozen fish
Please don’t leave me standing all alone…
Bomb cyclone

Bomb Cyclone.mp3

Bomb Cyclone-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about extreme weather events and human induced climate change inspired by the Bomb Cyclone blizzard of January 4, 2018.

“‘Bomb cyclone’ blasting East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week The most severe winter weather yet will assault the area late this week.” — washingtonpost.com

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: A C D G / D C E A
Recording: 1-track original take / digital 8-track stereo AltMix
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drums

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

]]> Financial Advice http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/2018/01/03/financial-advice/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:39:30 +0000 http://idea.membrane.com/songwriter/?p=19802 LYRICS
Here I stand wringing my hands
I didn’t know you were such…
A gambling man
A gambling man
You put your egg in one basket
Tripped n’ fell, now you cracked it
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Could never bring gains to your losses again
… no never again
You’re a gambling man
Here I stand with head in hands
What I said, you didn’t understand
… didn’t understand?
Bulls and bears can be on top
But don’ you know pigs get slop?
… pigs get slop
It’s as easy as buy low… and, don’t you know
Try, try, try to sell high
… you’ve gotta sell high
Here I stand wringing my hands
I didn’t know you were such…
A gambling man

Financial Advice.mp3

Financial Advice Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E B E / G B E
Recording: digital 6-track stereo
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drums

From the album At This Time
by Daniel Brouse

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