**About This Track**  
An original AI-assisted composition by Rob Nelson (*Bring Your Own Brilliance*) and Ron Cameron (*Alien Garden*). This song blends human creative direction with AI tools to bring our vision to life—merging storytelling, mood, and innovation into a dynamic listening experience.


**Creative & Technical Details**  
- **Lyrics**: Alien Garden tracks by Ron Cameron; Bring Your Own Brilliance tracks by Rob Nelson
- **Executive Producer for this track**: Ron Cameron  
- **Vocals & Instrumentation**: Produced using TopMediAI and AIGenMusic.AI  
- **Audio Format & Editing**: Mixed from MP3/WAV with NCH Software (trims, fades, conversions)  
- **Stem Splitting**: Processed with LaLaLaLa AI  
- **Cover Art**: Created with Stable Diffusion 3 Online, Aiease.ai, Pollo.ai, and Pixabay (Creative Commons), CoPilot AI  
- **Song Structure & Mood Profiling**: Cyanite AI

**Our Creative Blueprint**  
“CHOICES” is our internal code for the DNA of each track: genre, vocal tone, tempo, instrumentation, and emotional arc. Every detail is human-directed—AI simply helps us realize it.

**Rights & Licensing**  
We retain full commercial and non-commercial rights under our membership with [TopMediAI’s Terms & Conditions](https://www.topmediai.com/terms-conditions/). Lyrics, production, and arrangement are fully original works by Rob and/or Ron.

**Creative Use & Inquiries**  
Artists and producers are welcome to adapt or re-record our work—please credit us in any public releases. For licensing, collaborations, or sync opportunities, reach out directly:

Bring Your Own Alien Garden  
c/o Rob Nelson & Ron Cameron  
1211 Huron Street N., Suite 202  
London, Ontario, Canada  
N5Y 4L1

**Final Words**  
Each song we share is made with intention, imagination, and care. Thank you for listening—your support brings these stories to life.


Shadow Man [Version # 22] [SMAN22Nw]

[Verse 1]
First night, pink light through the curtain slats
You wore my hoodie like we planned all that
Shoes by the door, records on the floor
Laughed till we forgot what we were laughing for

I used to trace your spine like a map
Sayin’ “we been here before” like we knew the path
But baby, you don’t build a home in the storm
And I was always rain, even when I was warm

[Pre-Chorus]
We left pieces of us in borrowed spaces
Now I haunt hallways you don’t walk anymore

[Chorus]
There’s rooms we don’t sleep in, names we don’t say
But I still hear you humming in that old stairway
You moved on like smoke in a summer wind
But I keep unlocking doors we never lived in

[Verse 2]
Second year, dry tears and silent meals
I knew the way you loved by how you tried not to feel
Tried to pour oceans into porcelain cups
But we cracked slow, and no one patched us up

Remember that mirror in the thrift store frame?
You said I looked soft in that morning haze
We were good at beginnings, but never the end
I lost a lover and a best friend

[Bridge]
Time don’t heal, it just hides things well
And some of our truths, I still can’t tell
But I wear your ghost like a second skin
Some stories don’t close — they just sink in

[Chorus]
There’s rooms we don’t sleep in, names we don’t say
But I still hear you humming in that old stairway
You moved on like smoke in a summer wind
But I keep unlocking doors we never lived in

[Outro]
If love was a house, we left all the lights on
Even if it’s empty, it still feels like home

Drift Away

Dobie Gray