Song Lyric: "ONE LAST LIE."

Hardtwistmusic
Hardtwistmusic Salem, Oregon

Just finished the music for this one. It's an old song which I wrote at least 12 years ago and just recently had The A.I. site 'cover'. Same basic song. Still all mine, but with the (fairly bad) imperfections in my old self created music fixed by the cover version. I'm just posting the lyric.

ONE LAST LIE

 Tell me a complicated fairy tale. One last set of pretty lies.

You always know just what to say to me, to tease and tantalize.

Don’t know why I ever listened to you. I’m not sure what that shows.

So now I’m finally walking out that door. Give me one more lie for the road.


One last lie for old times sake. One last tortured alibi.

A final “I love you” from that silver tongue. One last lie to say goodbye.


Never been addicted to reality. Always willing to compromise.

You filled my head with your fantasies. You promised me. . . sunny skies.

Shoulda known better than to listen to you. There’s something sad that shows.

So now I’m finally walking out that door. Tell me one more lie for the road.


One last lie for old times sake. One last tortured alibi.

A final “I love you” from that silver tongue. One last lie to say goodbye.


I was lying to myself to believe in you. An enabler’s role I played.

Convincing as I was, there’s no reality to the victim I portrayed.

Always knew better than to listen to you. And I know just what that showed.

So now I’m finally walking out that door. Give me one more lie for the road.


One last lie for old times sake. One last tortured alibi.

A final “I love you” from that silver tongue. One last lie to say goodbye.


One last lie. One last lie. One last lie to say goodbye.  

Comments

  • Tex
    Tex Arkansas

    I like this lyric really want to hear it set to music.

    Tex

  • It will be weeks before It's on my soundcloud account. I'll try to remember to send you a private message when it's up.

  • I'm not very good at analysing lyrics on their own. Not a criticism though. This reads very well to me. Indeed it will be good to hear it with music...AI or other means. Great stuff.

  • Nice! I'm imagining this sung by Harry Connick Jnr (which may be utterly different to what you had in mind I know!).

    I like the dense syllable count in the lines. Should lead to something interesting!

    Flows well, nice jaded emotions. Should work well.

  • Looks good to me

  • ElvisNash
    ElvisNash Calif
    edited September 2025

    You could steal a melody from suno and record it yourself , thats one advantage of AI . The stems from Suno are weak , So its needs a pro player . They only play in left speaker on stems , So Suno needs to improve . By using Suno as a tool would fall in line of robot and human collaboration . Which is popular by industry standards on compromising . Ai is not going anywhere

  • The track is not balanced on Suno Stems , So you would need to re- record it


    https://www.mixcloud.com/ElvisNash/one-eyed-tractor-pilot/

  • Couldn't figure out how you managed to hear it to know that. Then I figured it out. You listened on SUNO. The songs on Suno are very seldom what I end up with. I use them as a starting point, and redo nearly all the vocals. That allows me to set levels for the instrumental and vocal also. Originally, I NEVER heard SUNO vocals that I felt were anything I'd want to leave, but lately I've left several songs with artificial vocals and also either sang backup to them, or used them for backup vocals. I've never separated the stems on SUNO. I signed up for a separate software separator before they were available, and still have over a hundred hours of separations paid for.

  • ElvisNash
    ElvisNash Calif
    edited September 2025

    Yup , I tested it on downloading Stems , It plays on left or right headphone ear , it also bleeds thru vocal, So you can't keep it , But you can steal a melody from suno , Go from there , compromise . since its trained on hits , its something to take advantage of , its 10 credits to down load stems , Which if you were doing a whole band , it does not download each track , its all in one , kinda useless . You can not mix it right with each stem , its basically a tool , which is alright

  • ElvisNash
    ElvisNash Calif
    edited September 2025

    Actually you can all tracks in separate files for 50 credits , could work , key change is another matter to fit another vocal

  • I'm paying for the better package, so stems would be free for me. Credits are no problem with the package I have. I never need to steal a melody. Got too many of my own already. The one you listened to is a 12 year old song that SUNO covered. With the service I'm using to separate stems (LALAL.ai) I seem to get true stereo on both my vocals and my instrumentals. Then, I can set the levels in each ear in my (very limited) DAW (Audacity.) It's not high class, but it's the best I can do right now. I'm too cheap and too lazy to get better stuff. I'm also too cheap and lazy to abandon the LALAL.ai stem separator until I've used it up. THEN, I'll have to quit being lazy and learn how to do it in SUNO. Thank you for going there and listening, and for the information. I deeply appreciate the interest you showed and your advice.

  • The lyrics are fine... has a blues attitude.

    I would like to hear the complete version.

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