Some Fun With Google AI on Song Lyrics

 I asked Google AI to explain the lyrics to this song:

The lyrics go:

When I close my eyes I think about it

When I woke today I thought about it

When I dream so bad I think about it

When I feel so bad I wanna shout it

Chorus:

Don’t you know you’d be all right

Don’t worry ‘bout tomorrow night

The time will come to see the light

And when does I’m only dreaming

I’m only dreaming

Things with wings and bats that sing surround me

Girls with nails and snails with curls around me

Snakes with teeth with gold beneath astound me

Apes with saws and dogs with claws have found me

Repeat chorus.

[(Sax solo) Repeat second verse and chorus]

It came back sort of like an English Professor:

The song explores the blurred lines between reality and a surreal dream state, utilizing a shift from repetitive anxiety to psychedelic imagery.

Obsessive Thought (Verse 1): The opening lines ("When I close my eyes... when I woke today") depict a state of persistent, intrusive thought. The speaker is haunted by an unnamed idea or feeling that persists through both waking and sleeping hours.

False Comfort (Chorus): The chorus offers a seemingly optimistic message ("don’t you know you’d be all right"), but it is immediately undercut by the revelation "I'm only dreaming". This suggests the comfort found in the lyrics may itself be an illusion or a mechanism to escape a "bad dream".

Surrealist Imagery (Verse 2): The second verse transitions into "Alice in Wonderland"-style surrealism.
Inversions of Nature: Creatures are given unnatural traits—bats that sing, snails with curls, and snakes with teeth.
Threat vs. Wonder: The imagery oscillates between the wondrous ("gold beneath") and the predatory ("apes with saws and dogs with claws"), reflecting the unpredictable and often frightening nature of deep subconscious dreaming.

The same songwriter, with what I took to be life in a basement apartment. Remains to be Seen. (The next song on the album is Subterranean Sunrise)

REMAINS TO BE SEEN (Pembroke) Well, as the day it breaks he wakes and slowly turns To see the door ajar and a distant light that burns Down a winding hall to somewhere far away While in his head he’s out to lunch somewhere today 

 As if enchanted by this lasting longest flight He follows on to find the day has turned to night Is it the same old tale, or is it something new Or is life a dream we drift through? 

 Chorus: Y’drag yourself up You dust yourself down Stick your chin in It’s time to face the world Yuh pull that comb Yuh brush that tooth Yuh lift that bag Call your best girl 

 Just when you think you have it It’s the part Someone comes along And upsets the apple cart Short chorus And now the stairway’s empty, dreamers still in bed He’s sitting with the keys to try and unlock his head And when he thinks he’s finally got it in his sight Someone down the hall turned on the light 

 Repeat chorus with variations

 Remains to be seen, remains to be seen

(Hello honey, is that you? Can you buy me an ice-cold beer? ... Why, I feel better already. Well, I think I’ll go out and buy a newspaper ... Bye bye ...)

Google AI: 

The song explores the surreal, often disorienting transition between the internal world of dreams and the external demands of reality.

The Dreamer vs. Reality: The opening verses depict a protagonist caught in a "dream we drift through." The imagery of a "door ajar" and a "winding hall" suggests a mind that is physically present but mentally "out to lunch." The passage of time is fluid and confusing, as a "lasting longest flight" causes day to turn into night without the protagonist noticing.

The Ritual of Mundanity: The chorus shifts tone, using rhythmic, colloquial language ("Y’drag yourself up," "Yuh pull that comb") to describe the mechanical nature of daily routines. It emphasizes the effort required to "face the world" and the performative nature of adulthood.

Disruption and Loss of Control: The bridge ("upsets the apple cart") highlights the fragility of this forced stability. Just as the protagonist feels they have a grasp on reality, external forces or sudden realizations disrupt their progress.

The Search for Clarity: The final verse finds the protagonist alone, trying to "unlock his head." The "empty stairway" contrasts with the earlier "winding hall," suggesting a return to a starker, lonelier reality. 

The closing line—"Someone down the hall turned on the light"—serves as a metaphor for a sudden, perhaps unwanted, awakening or realization that shatters the dream state once more.

I gave some hints about the basement. It came up with this:

 The "Distant Light": In a basement apartment, natural light is often limited or comes from a distance (like a window-well or a street lamp above). Seeing a "distant light that burns" likely refers to the streetlights or the first rays of morning hitting the pavement outside at eye-level.

"The Day Has Turned to Night": Living partially underground can distort one's sense of time. Without direct, sweeping sunlight, the transition between day and night becomes blurred, making it easy for a songwriter lost in their work to find that hours have slipped by unnoticed.

The Literal "Apple Cart"
Street Life at Eye Level: With windows at ground level, the protagonist's view of the "world" is quite literally the feet of passersby, car wheels, and street activity.

Then we get to a well known song: GRASS FOR BLADES

I had asked AI before about "debag Goliath." We are pulling off the trousers from Goliath.

[Verse 1]
Atomic man embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
'Though he worked and paid his dues
Here he was, no time to lose
Trying to find a way...
Waiting queues around him

[Verse 2]
"Attack you fools!" the captain bawls
"I'll have your heads upon my walls!"
Rows of heroes crouch to crawls
They bomb the bamboo huts and village halls
They smash ping-pong bats with cannon balls
Ali-Baba's and the sheiks and the Sauls
They debag Goliath as he falls
... Climbs and mauls everything

[Verse 3]
I said "Champagne for the hero whore
Watch your step, man, in all that gore
Not too much, he will scream
For more
Though he's filled from skin to core
It's not enough he will whine for sure, so
Say it's we who keep the score, and
Nail him back upon the floor, that should do it"


[Verse 4]
There he works, and he's still at large
Behind his smiles and his camouflage
Nice white coats and the college grades
That hide blue suits and golden braids
And though I hope that smell just fades
It does not go but it leads to raids on
Bamboo huts on the country glades
Where the people use the grass for blades, yeah

AI ANALYSIS 

The lyrics provide a surrealist critique of global power dynamics, military aggression, and the dehumanization of war:
The "Atomic Man" and Modern Greed: The opening depicts an "Atomic man" obsessed with "money greens". This figure represents a modern, powerful industrial or political leader whose drive for "winning" ultimately leads to loss, suggesting the hollow nature of capitalist or military victory.


Military Imperialism and Dehumanization: The song describes a "Captain" demanding the "heads" of his enemies and "rows of heroes" bombing "bamboo huts". This imagery strongly evokes the Vietnam War era, contrasting high-tech military force ("cannon balls") against rural, peasant life.


Cultural Absurdity: References to "Ali Baba," "sheiks," and the "Statue of Liberty" climbing walls create a chaotic, "Alice in Wonderland" style landscape where global icons and stereotypes are mangled by conflict.


The Title's Core Meaning: The phrase "grass for blades" refers to the victims of these raids—people in "country glades" who are so impoverished or peaceful that they use "grass" in place of weapons (blades), yet they remain the targets of the "blue suits with golden braids".


The Persistence of Evil: The final verse describes the aggressor "still at large," hiding behind a "camouflage" of respectable titles, college grades, and "nice white coats" while continuing to orchestrate raids.