In case you don’t know, I’ve been obsessed with producing songs lately by exploiting the amazing AI service Udio. I’ve already made and released two full albums based on a strange story I wrote back in 2021, named Odes to My Triceratops. It follows the adventures and misadventures of a trio of friends who live in a town lost in the map. The main dude is a songwriter named William Griffin, who’s passionate and sensitive, if a bit unhinged. Another character is William’s next-door neighbor Claire Javernick, who’s a blind redhead. Then we have Lorenzo, who’s a sentient triceratops for no justifiable reason. You can download the first two albums of this story through this link.

New song for the third volume. This one’s called, “Nocturne for Claire,” a lo-fi nocturne for Claire. It makes me teary-eyed whenever I listen to it, so I guess I can count that as a success.

Lyrics below:

Claire, my ginger ray,
Sing a song for me.
Give me one last memory
From wherever you’ve been.

We used to sing together,
But your voice has gone silent.
It was beautiful and sweet.
I wish I could hear it again.

Claire, my dearest beam,
Sing a song for me.
Give me the best dream
Before I go to sleep.

A nocturne for the one
I’ll never see again.

This town will remain:
A garden of flies and rot
That we once called home.
In the quiet and the cold,
Lost in this vast, lonely world,
I would have spent forever with you.

A nocturne…
For the one…
I will never, ever…
See again.