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“Kick Off Yer Pajamas”

There was actually one time when I was possessed for a year
So you were drinking Budweisers all through the night
I drank Gin Beams
That was like another shipment for your monsters
Laughing at my petrified parts
They pick off their pricks and they throw them like darts
Help, my ribcage has been opened
And this cut has been analytically designed
A great offer to fly your ears to a place
Where they will hear Pure sounds

Give the kNot to the spiderface
And Sirens will answer the chirps of the Frogs
We all knew he had it coming, anyway
Well at least it wasn’t the frog who croaked
At least the mop didn’t kick the bucket
To pay my respects I kicked a field goal
To that old procession in the sky
Christ The Lord raised his hands: “It’s Good!”
Just then, Saint Peter blew the whistle
Whistleblowers are not whistling
They’re only blowing
A blow job doesn’t really involve a whole lot of blowing
A snow job doesn’t fall after a heavy snowing

If your child turns from gray to red while suffering from asthma
He may be a cop
If he fails to shed her skin every seven weeks
Change her plasma
If she circles three times like a lying dog
Give him a diorama
Of mud and sticks
And monks, for kicks
And kick off your pajamas!
And get up out of bed
To smack the smile off the face of yet another beautiful blue morning sky

I want an apple of that bite
At licking I deliver the spite
Of the decade now ending
Adjacent to many new kinds of spanking mental patients

Musical Prompt:

“Driving, angular, melodic punk featuring a crooning, yet playful, singer”

Background:

Yesterday’s post featured the song “Roll Me In The Ditch,” which I mentioned was the first song SUNO generated for me back in early October of last year (2024). In case you haven’t read previous posts or I haven’t spelled it out, there are three basic components that go into having a song generated for you on the SUNO platform:

• Enter the lyrics (one can also choose to have instrumental songs generated, or have SUNO come up with the lyrics or flesh out your own lyrical ideas)
• Enter some musical prompts (style, genre, tone, featured musical instruments, etc.)
• Enter a song title

If I’m remembering correctly, part of why I chose “Roll Me In The Ditch” for the first attempt at asking A.I. to generate a song for me was that I’d spent a lot of time with those lyrics to the point where I had a strong idea of the melody and arrangements. It had become a fully-developed song in my mind that I could clearly hear. So I probably was curious as to how well the A.I. & I could collaborate on a song that sounded the way it sounded in my head by using limited “musical prompts.”

As mentioned in the previous post, the prompt entered was:
“Roots/Bluegrass/String/Acoustic Folk Music in the style of the film “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” sung by a wry singer“

The two versions of “Roll Me In The Ditch” SUNO initially generated weren’t what I was hoping for, so I tried again with the same Lyrics, Prompts, and Song Title. The second pair of songs were also not what I wanted, but one of the two versions on the third attempt sounded eerily similar to the way the song I was writing sounded in my head.

Because I was so pleased with this first song-experiment on SUNO, I used the same “Bluegrass” prompt for the first 15-or-so songs that SUNO generated for me. From the start, my intention was to take poems and lyrics I’d written over the decades and enjoy hearing them as fleshed-out songs.

“Roll Me In The Ditch” was generated on 10/9/24. In just now scrolling through the catalogue of songs on my SUNO profile, “Kick Off Yer Pajamas” was the first attempt (on 10/12/24) at a song using a different musical prompt (which was copied above, below the creepy “Budweiers” image that A.I. Art generative platform “Deep Dream” generated for me a few minutes ago based upon the lyrics to “Kick Off Yer Pajamas).

As with the song “Oh Glorified Oogle, Oh Squeegee Bum god” (the subject of Post #2), a version of “Kick Off Yer Pajamas” generated by actual humans does exist online. And as with “the google song,” one of the musicians who helped me with the Human Version of Kick Off Yer Pajamas was my esteemed friend Darby Dixon, who played acoustic guitar on the Human Version of “pajamas” that I’ll link below. I sang the lyrics, and another friend who sometimes goes by Jimi Camero played electric guitar. Yes, yes, let’s see if I can find that Soundcloud link for the Human-Generated “Kick Off Yer Pajamas…”

https://soundcloud.com/denator/kick-off-yer-pajamas

The “pure sounds” your ears will hear upon visiting the link above represent a pretty rough demo three friends improvised in 2009 or 2010 using Garageband.

One more note: As with the previous two posts, the song generated for “Kick Off Yer Pajamas” last October hadn’t yet been made into a “Persona” when I decided to make it the subject of one of these posts. Lately when I create a “Persona” from a generated-song I’ll often use a word or lyrical phrase from the song to give the “Persona” it’s name, which can be thought of as a Band Name or the name of a Solo Artist. Several different varieties of “Spanking Mental Patients” or “Spanking New Mental Patience” were rejected by SUNO on the grounds of containing elements of some other Persona existing somewhere on the platform. “Pure Sounds” didn’t seem like As Fitting of a Name for this new Persona, but it will have to do. So now, to close this post, I’ll go find some other lyrics that might be a good fit for this new “Persona,” who is programmed to create “Driving, angular, melodic punk featuring a crooning, yet playful, singer…”

“Arguing With Memes”

Have ya ever tried
partakin in
a nuanced debate
with me
Before belatedly comin to see
You were simply arguing with my memes?

I must confess, my friend,
to growin wary
of expressin
my beliefs
I’d rather just go online
and find a fine and pithy line
Juxtaposed against some image
summin up what’s on my mind

Have ya ever tried
buzzin by
the hive mind
of the powers that be?
Before belatedly coming to see
You’re just a dog barking up the wrong tree?

I must confess
to understandin
that this tree’s bark bites
much worse than me
I’d rather just take the scraps
that fall down from the laps
Of faceless patrons at the table
able to make spam of maps

Have ya ever tried
partakin in
a nuanced debate
with me
Before belatedly coming to see
You were only arguing with my memes?

May 28, 2025 at 2:56 PMRemix

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