Let Us Be
About This Track
This was the first song created after the new Gemini Experimental 1114 model was released. That model was the first able to "listen" to music and offer its reviews, even though it often had difficulty interpreting the chords at times. Unfinished versions of this track were input into Gemini and its rudimentary feedback was used at times to improve the composition.
The song was originally titled "The 2024 Anthem," having been written during a contentious election that I was glad to see be over. The lyrics in this song strike me, even in 2025, as to how relevant they remain. Why can't the world's leaders just let us be, instead of destroying our way of life with wars and tariffs? While I obviously fully support the administration in its policies and goals, the consequences of the actions of world leaders can be frustrating for people of all classes.
Once you get to the bridge, evaluate for yourself whether a human singer could perform it any better than this fully artifically-generated voice.
Lyrics
They write their rules up in their towers
(Their towers)
(So high)
While we dance away the midnight hours
In streets where hope runs low and dry
We're down here just tryin' to survive
The rhythm knows no boundaries
(No lines)
(No walls)
The beat breaks through their make-believe
While they pretend they're gods above
We're here below, just trying to love
We're not your pawns in this grand scheme
The music flows through everyone
(Through us all)
When they try to judge our souls
When hate is all they see
Why can't they just let us be?
(Let us be...)
The elders sit in judgment high
(judgment high)
While common folk just want to fly
(want to fly)
Their rules are chains around our souls
But music breaks all their controls
Can't they see we're trying to heal?
Make this world more real
(ooooooh)
We're not your pawns in this grand scheme
(Not today)
The music flows through everyone
(Deep in our bones)
When they try to shape our world
Their lies quickly unfurl
Why won't they just let us be?
(Let us be...)
Though their towers cast their shade
Their endless wars can't stop our waves
(space against our waves)
While they play their deadly games
(We still move)
We dance as one despite their might
(All unite)
(Not!)
We're not your pawns in this grand scheme
(Here we stand)
The music flows through everyone
(Through everyone's soul)
When they preach their hate and fear
Their walls won't last a year!
Why won't they just let us be?
(Let us BE...)
Though their hearts are sealed in stone
(Time will melt their hearts of stone)
Through the music we have grown
(We have grown so strong)
They will let us be
(Let us be...)