Riffusion and my first album

Years ago I used to write poetry. Most of it bad. I had a friend that suggested I write song lyrics, because they're basically just poems.
I worked out two that I thought were decent enough to be songs, but people I knew that could play music weren't necessarily good at composing.

It was a bit frustrating, having an idea in my head, and the only outlet is a flat piece of paper, no fulfillment of the idea.
I didn't expect them to hit the charts and make me famous, but just the idea that something I did could maybe tease some emotion was intriguing.

Enter the age of AI.
It is amazing and almost frightening what Ai has become in just the short few years since they started working on it. I tried to have AI set a couple of my lyrics to music a few years ago, and they were bad. It was neat that they were there, but it wasn't good enough to do anything with, really. That is, until now and Riffusion.
I am blown away by how good this app is. I got in early, in beta, and managed to create most of my music for free. The most recent, however, I've signed up for the monthly sub, because the free version doesn't give you the ability to add lyrics, just create random Ai slop, though I believe you get one or two "studio time" songs that you can create from scratch before it cuts you off.

Each of these are my personal lyrics with AI music. The prompts are similar, because I like melancholic music, except 'They Did It For Us', a Celtic lament

If you want to make your own music, give Riffusion a try.

Crimson Echo

After I started using this app I went back through pages and pages of my teenage poetry, and this was the only decent one. It's nothing but randomness, stream of consciousness, meaningless color slop, but it sounds pretty good.

Senses Lost

Back in 2002 a friend came to me and wanted me to write him a poem to send his girlfriend. I wrote the chorus of this song, but I liked it so much I kept it to myself and wrote another that wasn't as good. My wife at the time submitted it to poetry.com and it won several awards.
I know now that poetry.com is kind of a scam, they just want you to buy the books that your poems are in, but they did choose my song for a best of award, and that felt pretty good, even if it was just to try and get me to buy something else (I didn't buy the collection from the first thing it was in, either).
It was several years later when I was wanting to learn how to write music, and I wrote the rest of the words, then realized that this poem fit very well as the chorus and I combined the two.

Your Grin

The response I got when I released this song is, "Are you okay, man?" and "I need to hear the story behind this," but honest, there is no story behind it.
The words came, I wrote them down, they sounded good, and the AI did an amazing job of creating some heavy hitting music to draw the emotion from it.

They Did It For Us

This song is different than the rest. A few weeks ago I wrote a talk for church, based on the conference talk of Hans T. Boom, 'True to the Faith that our Parents have Cherished'. I spoke of ancestry, a connection to our people and our lands, that we are not here by accident, but by intention.
I was later having a conversation with my wife about the state of our country. We have different views, and she is less connected to ancestry.
I wrote this song inspired by both the talk and the conversation.