🛠️ break, break, break

Suno is an AI that generates music. It will generate lyrics for you if you want, but it struggles with writing lyrics that fit a meter, and then it struggles with generating a melody over unmetered slop. In fact, the less you give, the more freedom it has melodically, such as in this masterpiece.

So... what if you give it a metered poem? Some Googling later I came across this Tennyson poem) and arranged it for Suno to do it's thing:

Verse 1: 
O, well for the fisherman's boy, 
That he shouts with his sister at play! 
O, well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay! 
 
Chorus: 
Break, break, break! 
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! 
And I would that my tongue could utter 
The thoughts that arise in me. 

Break, break, break! 
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! 
But the tender grace of a day that is dead 
Will never come back to me. 

[instrumental solo] 

Verse 2: 
And the stately ships go on 
To their haven under the hill; 
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, 
And the sound of a voice that is still! 

Chorus: 
Break, break, break! 
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! 
And I would that my tongue could utter 
The thoughts that arise in me.

Break, break, break! 
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! 
But the tender grace of a day that is dead 
Will never come back to me. 

[instrumental solo] 

Verse 3: 
O, well for the fisherman's boy, 
That he shouts with his sister at play! 
O, well for the sailor lad, 
That he sings in his boat on the bay! 

[outro]

An alternative take...

Not bad, I think!

2024-05-09
break, break, break
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