The Vision and The Light

A song inspired by a chapter in my teen novel series. (Lyrics by me, music by Suno.com)

I've been playing with (obsessed with) Suno.ai rendering music based on my own lyrics. This song is based on a chapter in my teen novel series about a teen girl that daydreams and these become visions. It sounds a little woo-woo but it's generally about meditation and hypnogogic hallucination which I use to great effect for problem solving in both software architecture and story engineering and of course the book is about magic and visions. There is also a concept in the Sámi tradition called Adjágas which is essentially the same thing, a little trip to the spirit realm during nappy time.

What follows are the lyrics with metatags that I used to generate the media attached. I dabbled with poetry as a kid but never tried my hand with music since I'm not musically inclined but Suno gives me a toy to explore with (and the results ain't half bad). Full Playlist

The Vision and The Light

[intro]

[whispered]
I'm a dreamer, I let my mind wander.
I imagine how the world could be.
A wish fulfilled in my mind's eye.
I live there for a time before life pulls me away.

[Verse]
My dreams became nightmares.
They came unbidden, like the tide.
I couldn't discern reality.
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

[Bridge][spoken-word]
**There is a place between waking and dreaming, where reality and imagination blur.
That is where you need to look. That is the lens through which you can See. Find that place between awake and asleep.**

[chorus]
Breathe in, breathe out
The breath is life.
The telling of creation
flows in one great cosmic breath.

[Verse]
Break the veil between
imagination and the happening.
Aim your lens, let it through
Truth will find its way to you

[Interlude]
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-oooooooh

[Bridge][spoken-word]
**And I saw it as a tilting of the world, the light both too bright and too dim, roiling at the edges of shadows there in the vision place.**

[Verse] [backing singers]
Break the veil between (Breathe in)
imagination and the happening (Breathe out)
Aim your lens, let it through (Breathe in)
Truth will find its way to you. (Breathe out)

[End]