John Dyhouse

It has been a while since I have deviated from a similar style prompt, Well here it is. No special reason for sticking to a particular style, it just happened while I was experimenting with fairly minimal differences in some style descriptions. However, I felt a need for raising the tempo for this "Latin - Jazz" version of an alternative rock track.

This is an old poem, which I have set to music and restructured to be more in the format of a song. I have posted a reading of the original poem on SC a few years ago, but never set it to music before. After MIL died, My wife had to sell the family home in which she grew up, in many ways a sad experience. But the poem tries to think ahead and the memories we make with our own youngsters.

A warning: if you can listen to the very end, there is a twist in the tail which you may find amusing.

This was something I learned from a song by Hank Marvin in his song "London's Not Too Far". In my usual way, I started writing the lyric without planning out how to end the song and after several cul-de-sacs, I remembered this little trick. Never used it myself before but ir seemed appropriate here. Hope you like the song, I do not do many country songs but this seemed right for the lyric.

TBA

Another of those songs which took me for a walk. I had no idea where or how I would get to the end when I first wrote the title.

I have also been playing with creating short video loops from Suno - fairly unsuccessfully so far. Difficult to create a loop which doesn't jump as it loops - even with the help of AI. Pity I cant put these videos on Soundcloud though. But I hope you can enjoy the music....

One of those songs you start writing with no idea where you are going - just a first line, which in this case becomes a chorus. And then it simply seems to write itself. Yes I did a lot of editing (and made use of a rhyming dictionary (Rhymezone) but it flowed from the pen like magic - yes I still write with a pen/pencil/etc and paper. Always carry a notebook with me for when I have a spare moment. In this case my better half had gone shopping while I waiter in the car.

Any way, I hope you like it!

This track has a history. The original track is on Sound Cloud, on an Album, "This Is Me". Twelve tracks created by myself using software called Acid Forge, I borrowed my son's computer. I used sampled riffs from various instruments, placing them on a piano roll and the editing individual notes (pitch and length of individual notes mostly) to create an original piece of music. The one called, "Classically Me" has been remixed here in Suno and vocals added (see below). Part of an experimental series, playing with the power of Suno. So the backing is a cover of an original classical piece by myself and uses lyrics by myself. Although the main melody is due to Suno. The vocalist is a Suno Persona, I have named Angelina Lee.

Face The Music - John Dyhouse (15/08/2026)

[verse]

I love the music.

I love the romance,

It reminds me

Of Innocence

[verse]

A kind of magic,

Opens my world.

Darkest fears,

Are all unfurled

[chorus]

Face the music

Who. what. where.

You'll find it all,

If you should care.

In my room alone,

No one is listening

but me....

No preconditioning

[verse3]

Show compassion.

Never regret,

Step aside.

Release the debt

[Bridge]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh,

Oh oohhh oooohhh.

Soak it up,

But be astute

[chorus]

Face the music,

Who. what. where.

You'll find it all,

If you should care.

In my room alone,

No one is listening

But me...

No preconditioning

[verse3]

Show compassion

Never regret,

Step aside,

Release the debt

[llast chorus]

Face the music,

Who. what. where.

You'll find it all,

If you should care.

In my room alone

No one is listening

But me...

No preconditioning

Have you ever been hit in the eye with an idea? Clouds was such to me, But I feel I may have used the metaphors, etc, too many times in this lyric. Looked into figures of speech using clouds... and just go carried away. Maybe a very different bridge with a rest from using this idea. Will be back in the near future if this works. Must admit I do like it just seems to be a little overdone - too long in the oven perhaps? Let me know if it works for you.

Idly humming a melody, I started putting words to it: I built a story from those first lines. It's how it happens with me. I never know where I am going as the song develops.

It's the lyrics which matter to me. I kept the story simple and the backing sparse. Suno however added far more than I actually wanted. I added a harmonica in place of the sax in my last upload, just for a change but I think it seems just right in this song. Hope you like it.

Another cover of one of my own songs originally put thru Suno when I first signed up. I very quickly used many of my songs to experiment with the possibilities without any real aim; I had a quite large back catalogue. But with v5.5, I am now trying to do my best for some of those early experimental trials. This particular song uses only the lyrics and I thought that a country genre would fit, however during the process I added a saxophone just to be different. Hope you like this updated version.