Lynn Cole - Words Fall Short - Lyric Video

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I’m stoned, and I’ve been having a rough week emotionally, so I’m feeling contemplative. This song has survived almost fully intact and with only minor changes since Suno v2 when I first wrote it last year.
Now, it stands out in my discography because it’s out of character for me. I’m the girl from Barriers, or Tell Me Anything. You know, the one who wishes she could put up emotional walls, but honestly finds them entirely too annoying to be worth doing. I’m a believer in sincere honesty. This song is not that. At least, not for me. I think it’s an honest representation of a thought process I find ridiculous, and annoying.
This is another piece about K. To recap, K was someone I was involved with for about six years. Songs like “Not in love anymore,” “500 Miles,” this one, and probably a dozen others are about them. It’s a relationship that technically never ended 20 years ago, that I still have pretty strong emotions about. And it’s a place I go to sometimes, when I feel frustrated, or heartbroken, or lonely to do self examination on my patterns and flaws in these areas. Also a lot of good hyperbolic drama! It’s somewhere safe because it’s long over, and there’s no changing it.
Part of the fun of songwriting is being able to unpack and learn to cope with some of this stuff.
This relationship was a pile of bad ideas, stacked on hundreds of wobbly milk crates, filled to the brim with bad ideas. From the first day, we both knew it was a terrible idea, and we did it anyway, because we were both unusually stupid 25 year olds.
Words Fall Short is a conversation K would have with me, almost word per word. And it’s one that happened regularly. The whole conceit of it is so unfair, and unreasonable. It bothers me, even now, because of how unapologetically cynical it is. And that was my thinking when I wrote it.
I also find joy in the fact that K would absolutely lose their shit, if they knew I was using ai’s to sing it, and probably go on a weird tirade about how the robots are just lulling you into a false sense of security, and y’know, they can eat bugs now, and they’re going to murder all of us! Just wait! If K is still out there, I guarantee you, that they would hated every piece of art I’ve made in the last five years. At least, the version of them that I remember.
Anyway, it’s a deeply unjust, unfair song… that I find oddly beautiful? And the performance makes it so much prettier than it has any right to be.
This is the third draft, and I believe it’s the second published draft, but I might have published all three. You’ll have to check my soundcloud. Or, if you want me to post the second draft here, let me know.
This one’s very close to the first draft. That’s intentional. One detail I’m proud of here is that I figured out how to make Udio generate both an organ synth, as well as an acoustic piano, and bleed them together for that borderline uncanny sounding ai or lofi piano. See that yall? We’re already intentionally recreating old ai aesthetics! Isn’t that awesome?

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This is a really good song!!