Nostalgia

Bubblegum Friday!

AI cover of original song with original lyrics. Song made to go with an AI video. Link below.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/nMIUtNifU84

Are Long Gone
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Remember me,
I used to live here
When we were young,
When we had fun,
But those days,
I’m sad to say,
Are long gone.   

I used to be near,
When you weren’t strong
I was by your side
Even when you were wrong,

Was she as good to you
As I would’ve been?
Did she take all the dreams we had
And make them come true in the end

Or was what we had when we first begun
Nothing but a lie. 

Remember me,
I used to live here
When we were young,
When we had fun,
But those days,
I’m sad to say,
Are long gone.   

Are long gone (x5)

Are Long Gone

Just another AI dance cover.  Created a beat track using Studio One 7. Uploaded the mixed track to the AI engine then added some not-too-spectacular dance lyrics.

Dance
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Oh yeah,
My foot,
Look out steps,
oh, oh,
look at them feet,
fly,
yeah!
dance,
yeah,
dance,
oh, oh,
dance, dance (x10)
Look at me dance!
Woh!
Dance

Dance

An AI cover of one of my non-AI instrumentals. Non-AI lyrics added.

Where Did Our Love Go
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Where did our love go,
It's no longer here,
I don't see it on our TV,
I don't feel it in our sleep,
I don't hear it in our talk,
Can you tell me,
If it was ever real.

Oh baby (baby)
Time to wake (wake up)
And discuss where we went wrong,
Went wrong,
Oh baby (baby)
Talk to me,
Talk to me, baby (x 20)
Let's talk again,
As if love is still here.

Oh baby (baby) (x10)

Where Did Our Love Go

I completed a non-AI instrumental this weekend, but the temptation was too great to do an AI cover and add lyrics.  I fell asleep as I was working on the lyrics.  My wife heard the unfinished lyrics being sung and woke me to tell me to keep writing.

You're Not Seeing Me
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I awake without you by my side,
As though what we did was left behind,
Were you really here last night,
Or was that just in my mind,
And when I prod myself to remember,
I don't think what we did was that tender.
Oh no, no, no,
Oh no, no, no.

I want to forget as I'm able,
This love that's been so painful,
A love not real,  just a fable,
Nothing's left on the table,
Never stay, all about,
One foot in, one foot out.
oh, oh.

When you're here, 
You're not here with me,
When you look into my eyes,
You're not seeing me,
When you touch my lips.
You're not kissing me,
Your love's with her, I know,
You've hurt me so,
Oh, oh.

I want to forget as I'm able,
This love that's been so painful,
A love not real,  just a fable,
Nothing's left on the table,
Never stay, all about,
One foot in, one foot out.
Oh no, no, no, 
Oh no, no, no.

Oh, no, no, no (x20)

You're Not Seeing Me

Nostalgia

Lyrics

I said no
No
No
Not tonight
Under the flashing neon light
You reached for me
I turned away
Didn’t know what I’d feel someday

(Ooh-yeah!) I see it now
So clear
(Ooh-yeah!) I wish you were here


Nostalgia
No
No
No
I let you go
Go
Go
Wish I’d said yes
Yes
Yes
Now I’m left with this mess
Nostalgia
No
No
No
Why’d I say no
No
No?

You asked once
You asked twice
I gave you cold
Cold ice
The music played
The night was long
I never joined your favorite song

(Ooh-yeah!) Regret’s a heavy beat
(Ooh-yeah!) I’m stuck on repeat

Nostalgia
No
No
No
I let you go
Go
Go
Wish I’d said yes
Yes
Yes
Now I’m left with this mess
Nostalgia
No
No
No
Why’d I say no
No
No?

Star crossed lovers with an arson problem. A mini musical movie about lovers on the run...
Added to the album: "Curiosities Of Outsider Art" (Sept  2025)

(Act 1: Young lovers on an arson spree)
Lyrics:
She puts the gasoline in my truck
And then we drive down
And we like to burn up
Local buildings
And alleys
And trashcans

She likes to come out with me at night
And burn things down
She can't explain it
It's just how she feels
It's what see needs
Simultaneous release
While burning down the Hardee's (a USA restaurant chain)

We got black magic spells right off the shelf
I have a split personality
And I hate Ourselves
We have  a compulsion
To  blow things up
It's all fucked up
Young arsonists in love
Young Arsonists in love (3X)

We have black magic spells
Right off the shelf
The good ones are mixed in
So it makes it hard to tell
We understanding the poetry
Of burning things up
Burning shit up
All fucked up
Young arsonists in love
(End Act 1)


(Act 2 : Chase and capture)
Young arsonists in love (3X)
We're on the run
She says: let's burn down a Chevron

We have black magic spells right off the shelf
The Doctors say we seem alright
But you know that we can't be helped
The Police ask: Is this behavior carnal?
"Officer"
She said:
"Have you forgotten how to marvel?"
Forgotten how to marvel?

Young Arsonists In Love

AI cover of one of my imagined broadway tunes.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/4eD0TXpj1NI

Heartfelt Tune
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I don’t want to,  
expose myself in a bad song.
So anyone who hears
Now knows my wrongs.

I don’t want to,
Expose myself on the radio,
Where everyone will smile
When I'm so low. 

I don’t want to,
expose myself through a heartfelt tune,
When anyone who hears,
Can mock my love sick views.

I don’t want to,
expose myself in a sad love song.
So anyone I'm near,
Can laugh at me all day long. .

I don't want to hear my ups and downs
When I'm in town,
Singing from lips of strangers,
Reminding me she’s not around.

No, no, (x5)

I don’t want to,  
expose myself where I lose,
It’s hard enough,
knowing she's the reason for this tune.

No, no, no, no  (x20)

Heartfelt Tune

Friends

I'll be your friend
Good friend of ear
This music sends pure bond of clear
We have woven sound between our brains
Now look we're friends without even names

Fine frequency found neurons of tone
Great honest pounds on divisive lone
We're never alone if we don't pretend
If we feel real
Always real our friend

Friendship
Flush our fake divides
Tend to us by tone
No cruel confides
The real of real
Brave love we steal
Friends are friends
Give heart a meal

Sometimes years they pass us by
Life mutes full presence and eye to eye
Yet still that bond stays true to moments
Befriending unconditional showed us

We may feel dark and down and dull
Some may fly off in new missioned mull
Yet time and life always reminds
True friends transcend any test of time

Friendship
Flush our fake divides
Tend to us by tone
No cruel confides
The real of real
Brave love we steal
Friends are friends
Give heart a meal

Friendship
Flush our fake divides
Tend to us by tone
No cruel confides
The real of real
Brave love we steal
Friends are friends
Give heart a meal

Friends

Dear Mr. Dream Maker

Electro fusion of classical and jazz with a melding of hip hop, reggae, and Latin beats at a chill 70 bpm 

An original composition, no AI, digital music created MIDI to DAW by a human

The Harvest Moon
Excerpt from a poem by Ted Hughes

"The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,
Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,
A vast balloon,
Till it takes off, and sinks upward
To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon."

Harvest Moon is a symbol of abundance, gratitude, and the balance between light and dark of the autumn equinox. The 2025 Harvest Moon, this year’s first Supermoon of the Northern Hemisphere, reaches full illumination on Monday, October 6, 11:47 PM ET. 🌕

With props to jazz flugelhorn player and composer Chuck Mangione, RIP (November 29, 1940 – July 22, 2025)


ARTIST NOTE: I attempt (and fail) on a regular basis to satisfy an artistic curiosity — What if classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach wrote jazz music using a DAW with electronic drum kits? 🤔😯 Even when I fail, usually something comes out of the effort 😀
……………………………………
TEMPOS
0:01   68 bpm
0:45   70 bpm
Variations of Fm, E, Bbm, F#, Eb7, C7
DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai Professional Keyboard 
VST or E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand 
Ambient Lead 
Breathy Keys
Studio Trumpet 
Vibraphone 
SoCal Ballad Piano 
70s Funk Clav
Focus synth 
Session Strings 
Fingerstyle Electric Bass 
Deep Round Synth Bass
Minimal Techno Pattern
E-PERCUSSION
African Kit
Latin Kit 
2-Step Remix Overdrive Kit 
……………………………………

COVER ART is a surrealistic interpretation of the Harvest Moon song as original CGI by SUNNYBECK using a composite derived from original and AI-generated images rendered by the DaVinci app, then altered, retouched, and designed in Photoshop.

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, 11:12 PM ET 
Released on SoundCloud
2025 All Rights Reserved
.

Harvest Moon

Wild weather blowing up a storm - becoming the 'new normal'.
Heavy moog with 2 saxes and 2 flutes conjuring a swirl of a tempestuous sea.

Pic c/o Tristan Alaric Ravencroft (Pinterest)

TEMPEST

To The Moon!

Lil Red Boots is a heartfelt country story written by Melinda Klotz Mercer and performed by Kitty Carmichael. Inspired by childhood memories of the red boots her grandfather gave her at age five, the song celebrates courage, faith, and the fearless spirit that carries us through life. With warm acoustic guitars, fiddle accents, and an uplifting chorus, it’s a modern country anthem of resilience, gratitude, and new beginnings.

Lil Red Boots

@2014 S.Lamoon (Melody)
@2023 Anan Prapaso (Lyrics)

[Verse 1]
ทุกคนต่างบอกว่าเธอแปลก
ท่าทางผิดแผกและประหลาดเหลือเกิน
ยิ้มต่างกับเขา พูดต่างกับฉัน หรือบังเอิญ
จะยืนนั่งเดินแปลกตาจริง

[Pre-Chorus]
แต่ว่าเธอดูพิเศษ
และมีรอยยิ้มที่ดูจริงใจกว่าใคร
ฉันอยากจะมีเธอไว้ อยู่เคียงกันไปกับฉัน
ฉันอยากจะรักแต่เธอ

[Chorus]
ฉันนั้นรักเธอ ตั้งแต่ฉันค้นพบความพิเศษ
ทุกๆ สิ่งที่เห็นกับตาน่าเอ็นดู
รักฉันรักเธอ ตั้งแต่รู้ว่าโลกมีเธออยู่
ฉันโชคดีได้พบกับเธอที่แสนงดงาม

[Verse 2]
ผู้คนแตกต่างก็มากมาย
ที่เดินขวักไขว่หายใจอยู่ทุกวัน
เขาเก็บความคิดที่ต่างกันไว้ไม่คุยกัน
เอาความเงียบงันปิดบังใจ

[Pre-Chorus]
แต่ว่าเธอดูพิเศษ
และมีรอยยิ้มที่ดูจริงใจกว่าใคร
ฉันอยากจะมีเธอไว้ อยู่เคียงกันไปกับฉัน
ฉันอยากจะรักแต่เธอ

[Chorus]
ฉันนั้นรักเธอ ตั้งแต่ฉันค้นพบความพิเศษ
ทุกๆ สิ่งที่เห็นกับตาน่าเอ็นดู
รักฉันรักเธอ ตั้งแต่รู้ว่าโลกมีเธออยู่
ฉันโชคดีได้พบกับเธอที่แสนงดงาม

[Instrumental]

รักฉันรักเธอ ตั้งแต่รู้ว่าโลกมีเธออยู่
ฉันโชคดีได้พบกับเธอที่แสนงดงาม

Na Na Na Na
ที่แสนงดงาม

โลกมีเธออยู่ - Because You Exist (2023)

Stronger Than the Chains

Folk. Vocals and music generated by AI but I 100% write my own songs, handle all composition, production and post production for my music.  By around the end of October-November of this year(2025) I will be getting the equipment I need to record my own quality vocals and then voice clone them and have AI train my vocal clone.  If that is successful my plan is to voice swap my cloned vocals with the AI vocals on some or all of my tracks listed as 'Album Version'

The Good Fight Remastered(Folk Album Version)

I’m a song-writer who enjoys creating music of any genre.

My son recently introduced me to A.I. and taught me how to do covers of my previously released non-A.I. music. Since I've never considered myself a performer (except playing with worship bands at church or solo-piano at a rehab center) using A.I. is right up my alley.

Since I've  exhausted using my previously released music for A.I. covers, I now compose music in a DAW, rip to a wave file, and make an A.I. cover of this wave file. I then write lyrics to the A.I. music. It takes around 100 A.I. iterations to complete the lyrics and get a style I'm happy with.  

Brief Bio: Lived more than a quarter of my life overseas (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). Each country gave me an appreciation for different types of music plus probably why I get bored easily in sticking with one genre or another.

Heartfelt Tune

Mike Krath

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