Today, I want to feature a song from my collection „Life in the 21st Century„, published here in autumn 2024. The song was created with heavy use of AI (ChatGPT and Suno AI). First reason for using ChatGPT to help making the verses is simply my bad English. It is just good enough to know how bad it actually is… However, ChatGPT created the verses for this song based on a prosa text written by me as it’s prompt, wich contained all the thoughts and issues then transformed into the song lyrics. So the song expresses my opinion and view and is not a chance product by some LLM.
It strikes me how literally everything described in the song is now taking place. Even those lines that one could have deemed exaggerated before the election in autumn 2024 become reality. If Trump is allowed to go on like this for one more year, our once esteemed ally and celebrated saviour of europe from the Nazis, politically will be pretty difficult to discern from Russia (which, of course, also fought the Nazis, long time ago). And even China will be more close to USA than USA to western Europe, in terms of it’s factual power structures.
Well, USA is not Trump, and I wonder how long people in the US will trust a man, who obviously would sell them all without second thought for his personall benefit and the sake of power? But democracy in the US is just a fleeting dream. It is based upon rules and structures from an earlier age of horses and carriages – and the laws of the jungle, until the horses of the righteous conquered the endless miles of the west…
Anyway, as long as the “my country first” atitude spreads and increases to determine national strategies, either explicitly or secretly, there can only be losers in the long term. Maybe mankind could do better? But probably not in the USA…
This is the song as created by Suno AI:
And these are the lyrics:
Democray is dying
Once a land of promise, of hope and liberty,
A beacon in the darkness, where the chained could break free.
They fought the tyrants’ armies, their banners held so high,
But now the stars are fading, and truth begins to die.
Promises whispered, sweet lies in the air,
The rich buy the voices, and no one seems to care.
The press bends the story, the truth becomes a sin,
And the land of the free is caged from within.
Oh, democracy’s dying, step by step, day by day,
The mask of the righteous is slipping away.
Where billionaires whisper, and powers obey,
The dream turns to ashes, as they tighten the chain.
They sow seeds of hatred, divide us by our name,
While minorities are trampled, and the guilty shift the blame.
Opponents are silenced, their shadows left behind,
And the shameless rise to power with a crooked, hollow mind.
Promises broken, but no one seems to see,
The hand that feeds them poison is the one they call free.
Integrity’s forgotten, dishonesty’s the creed,
And the people are deluded while the oligarchs feed.
Oh, democracy’s dying, step by step, day by day,
The mask of the righteous is slipping away.
Where billionaires whisper, and powers obey,
The dream turns to ashes, as they tighten the chain.
Once, they fought the fascists, the tyrants, the cruel,
Now they wear the same fashion and rewrite the rules.
The land of the brave, the home of the free,
bows to the rich in their oligarchy.
Oh, democracy’s dying, step by step, day by day,
The mask of the righteous is slipping away.
Where billionaires whisper, and powers obey,
The dream turns to ashes, as they tighten the chain.
Was it ever so noble, was it ever so true,
Or just a painted facade, now bleeding through?
The mask lies broken, the lie on display,
And the people still cheer as their freedom decays.