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DYLAN BRENNEIS SONGS FROM 2009-2017
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All songs written and composed by Dylan Brenneis
www.dylanbrenneis.ca
These songs are shared under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International Public License.
No copies of this compiled songbook are to be made for
profit.
Edmonton, Alberta.
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Dear reader:
A while ago I began a website to curate all of the things I had
made throughout my life, in order to keep a consistent and
searchable record for myself, and also as a means of passing my
ideas and creations to other people who might enjoy them. In doing
so, I’ve thought a lot about the process of creation in its many
forms, and what it’s really for. I’ve come to believe that any
creation becomes more meaningful when shared with other people,
because it can touch more lives, take on new forms, and accomplish
things not possible when it’s squirrelled away from the rest of the
world.
I also realized that if something were to happen to me, most of
the things I had created would live on and survive without me.
Robots, artwork, written stories… all of those things can exist on
their own more or less right after the moment of creation. However,
such is not the case with music. I realized that I had a lot of
songs that really only existed in my head and during the actual
moment I was playing them. Music is something of an ethereal art
form in that sense: it’s something that really can only exist in
the moment. Sure, music may exist recorded on hard drives or
written on paper, but is that really music? I would argue that it’s
only the skeleton of it at best. The actual sound—which can only
exist temporarily—must breathe life into it.
Having thought these thoughts, I realized that my music didn’t
have any such skeletal form, and therefore it really had no means
of being enjoyed by anyone without me playing it. And so I began
the process of writing it all out, so that anyone could enjoy it
any time. And I’m extremely glad I did—because in doing so I
realized something about my music that I hadn’t known before.
Many of these songs read as prayers, and I often play them as
such. In writing them out, it became quickly apparent to me that I
didn’t have the skill to play these songs, much less to write them.
I discovered key changes and time signature changes I didn’t know I
had included, lots of complex dotted quarter and eighth note
passages with syncopated rhythms… I found after having written out
many of the songs that if I were to look in a songbook and see this
music, I would quickly pass over it believing I wouldn’t be able to
play it. That leads me to believe that I must have had a lot of
help writing them, and is the reason I’m very glad I took the
effort to give these songs a means of transmission to other people.
If these were just little ditties I’d come up with on my own, and
they ceased to exist without me, I wouldn’t be too bothered by it.
But as it is, I suspect these songs were not written by me so much
as through me, and I feel it’s my duty to pass them along as best I
can.
I hope these songs might speak to you as they have to me.
Dylan Brenneis
P.S. In the true spirit of open-source ideas, if you feel the
need to modify these songs, please do. Change a lyric, change a
chord, add a solo or bridge…whatever helps the music become more
meaningful to you.
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Table of Contents The Nomad – 2009
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Look For The Bright Side – 2009
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A Sinner’s Heart – 2011
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10
Teach Me Lord, To Love You – 2012
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Mom’s Song – 2013
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18
(Your Spirit Rests Upon Me) Like A Dove – 2013
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Life’s Road – 2014
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You Are Not Perfect – 2014
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My Cup Overflows – 2014
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I Just Wanted You To Know – 2017
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The NomadPiano Arrangement
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2009
120D G D
6 G D
A
D/F
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Look For The Bright SideGuitar and Vocals
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2009
140D A G A D A G A
5 D A G A D A D
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10 Bm G A
glasslife,
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closelemons
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Things don't al ways go as planned, and you won't al ways win;
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45 Bm A A7
grit your teeth and dive on in, don't let it un der your
skin!
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grin. Yeah, brush it off with a grin.
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A Sinner's HeartFor Piano
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2011
120Dm B F C Dm B
7 Am Dm A7100
Expressively; downward rolls slightly faster than upward.Dm
rit.
13 B Dm
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23 C Dm
28 B F C
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rit.
42 Dm A7 Dm C
46 B A7 Dm
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Teach Me Lord, To Love YouDylan Brenneis
Copyright 2012
100C G Am F2
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I owe you
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more than I've
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lo ve you; please
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help me Lord, I pray.
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day.
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lo ve you; please-
28 Am
help me Lord I pray.
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Mom's Song(Piano Arrangement)
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2013
120G2 C
5 G2 C
9 G2
I lookI
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my side.
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meyou
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weak,friend,
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me when I'm strong,
34 C
and you help me to ca
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you to the end,-
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so I sing you this
120G
song
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You stand by me when I'm weak,rit.
45 F
you give me strength to be strong,
C
and you help me to ca
G
rry on-
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I look to you as a friend,
F
I'll look to you 'til the end,
C
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sing you this
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(Your Spirit Rests Upon Me) Like A Dove(Piano Arrangement)
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2013
90 B Gm7 E F
5 B Gm7 E F
9 B
Lord, you are the
Gm7
rea son for the-
11 E
lit tle good in
F
me. And-
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Hold me in your
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arms.
19 Gm7
Don't let me break your heart
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again.
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Give me strength to
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fight
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turn my face to you and
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then
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Love me, Lord and teach me how to
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love; your
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dove.
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Create in me a
E
clean heart O God,
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put a new and
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right spirit
F
within me;
40 Gm7
Create in me a
E
clean heart O God,
Cm
put a new and
70F
right spirit within
D.S. al Coda
me.
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You Are Not Perfect(Piano Arrangement)
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2014
120A E/A D/A A
6 E/A D/A A
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toen
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withso
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show
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rit.
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My Cup Overflows(Piano Arrangement)
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2014
240Am
With gusto
MyI
cupwanna
F
ovsoak
erit
flowsall in
C
withyour
yourlove
giftfills
ofthis
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graceplace.
Am
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leaps for joy,
C
and my voice is
G
raised.
Am
This so ng is
F
yours-
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si ng your
1.Am
praise. On-
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my own
F2
I can't win but
C
with you I know I will.
G
23 Am
Lord give me
F2
the strength to turn my
28 C
eyes
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up to you un til
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You're my whole life
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ev ery thing that I hope
F
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cupwanna
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withyour
yourlove
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grace.place.
Am
My heart
F
leaps for joy
C
and my voice is
78 G
raised.
Am
This so ng is
F
yours.
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I Just Wanted You to KnowOrgan Arrangement
Dylan Brenneis
Copyright 2017
120
Em Cmaj7 D Em C
6D G
This
Em
time is hard for
C
all of us, so
11 D
ma ny things to
G
feel. It's
Em
tough to put love
C
in to words;- -
15 G
that's how we know it's
D
real. You
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all out on your
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own,
D
so we
C
hold on to each oth
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lone. And I
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was;
Em
and I
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know that now he's
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gone I ne ver
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34 2.
now.
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love you; just
D
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G
know.
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God please grant me
D
cou rage to
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change the things I-
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can, Se
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55 C
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G
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59 C
help me learn to
D
live a life with
G
you.
D.S. al Coda
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63 Em Cmaj7 D Em
67 C D 1. G 2. C G
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