Real You

Sometimes you get an idea for a song and it just doesn't work out the way you planned.

In this case, I was contemplating the fellow who was trying to use modern AI technology to create an on-line replica of his parents simply because he wanted to talk to them so badly. I had a verse. I didn't like it. At all, the longer I considered it.

Yesterday morning while lying in bed at oh-dark-thirty or thereabouts, I got the chorus. And a couple of verses. And random bits to build the rest of the song out of.

By the following day, I had the whole song. It is not anything like the song that I set out to write.

Overall, I think that's a good thing.

       Amaj7           Em7                Amaj7
Do you worry what will happen when you’re gone?
         Amaj7             Em7            Amaj7
Who will take care of your kids is number one.
   D6           Dm6          Amaj7
Or maybe it’s a husband or a wife
     D6              Dm6            E7sus4 E7
That you will leave alone at end of life.
G/D                       D6            Amaj7
You’ve made sure that the money will be there,
  G/D       D6              E7sus4 E7
Financially ok without your care.
        Amaj7              E7sus4               Amaj7
But you know that in their hearts there’ll be a place
     D6                 Dm6                E7sus4 E7
That needs to hear your voice and see your face.


(Chorus)
          D6                Dm6
You could just leave them a letter,
    Amaj7
But we can do it better,
        D6              Dm6            E7sus4 E7
Because nothing but the best will ever do.
        Amaj7               E7sus4
You can talk with them each day
     Amaj7              E7sus4
Even though you’ve gone away
         Amaj7  E7sus4  E7   Amaj7
With our AI holographic Real You.


You’ve seen it on the movies or TV,
The kind of wise advisor you can be.
That character we’re not allowed to name
Of “faster than a speeding bullet” fame,
With a parent that you thought was long since dead
Now played by Marlon Brando’s floating head.
You’ll never need to worry what they’ll do
When you’re there to give advice as Real You.

(Bridge)
D6
Upload what we ought to know.
Amaj7
Voice and pictures make it go.
    D6                        Amaj7
Our AI makes it simple as you see.
D6
Hook up our custom electrode.
Amaj7
Use our brand new Bulk Upload
   D6                               E7sus4 E7
To make Real You as real as you can be.


It’s the gift to let them know you’ll always care.
Real You’s the next best thing to being there.
No need for anyone to be bereft.
With Real You, it’s just like you never left.
If finding a new trustee aggravates,
Real You can do the job in forty states
So you can stretch your hand out from the grave.
Just think of all the money you will save.

(Chorus twice)
         Amaj7  E7sus4  E7   Amaj7
With our AI holographic Real You.