Talking to No-One

The Suno Version:

The Original Version:

I called this work, “the carriage.” It is about a lifelong confrontation with an unseen control system. The forces that claim authorship over our lives. It’s about living just outside the architect’s clean lines, believing you were meant for something you created, only to realize something else has been keeping score the whole time.

The narrator isn’t a savior or a friend. He’s the arbiter; the accountant of time and intention. While you were dreaming, creating, laughing, trusting yourself, he was building the world around you. Every gift was a loan. Every moment came with interest.

The song asks a quiet and dangerous question: when you close your eyes and imagine freedom, what are you really doing with it? Are you building something that lasts, or just running until the walls appear?

This is a story about control disguised as order, fate disguised as fairness, and the moment you realize the blueprint was never yours.

I have posted my original version recorded about 2 years ago and the Suno version.  I like them both, but the Suno version added some anger I don’t think I could express. If you have time, listen to both and let me know what you think! 

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
You got big dreams, boy
See, I got other plans
You can keep on runnin’, but one day you will dance
To the beat that I stir
The beat I create
I’ve givin’ you time
Now it’s my time to take

[Chorus]
It just keep on runnin’, boy, as fast as you can
You got ideas and I got real big plans
This great big world you let just slip right past
And I’ll just keep takin’ ’til you understand
That your tears are like wine
That console my ache
Of disappointing choices that you continue to make
I’m gonna catch you, gonna drop you to your knees
I’m the architect, you do as I please

[Verse 2]
the arbiter between what’s real and what’s fake
What you get right and what you mistake
What you can see and what you believe
What’s really there and what is a dream
[lead guitar]

[Chorus]
I ain’t no friend
I ain’t no saint
While you believed in miracles, I built this place
I’ve given you gifts, I’ve given you time
You used it for fun, now those gifts are mine

I ain’t no friend
I ain’t no saint
You believe in miracles, I’ll build this place
I’ve given you gifts, I’ve given you time
You used it for fun, now those gifts are mine

I ain’t no friend
I ain’t no saint
You’ll believe in miracles, while I built this place
I’ve given you gifts, I’ve given you time
You used it for fun, now those gifts are mine

I ain’t no friend
I ain’t no saint
You’ll believe in miracles, while I built this place
I’ve given you gifts, I’ve given you time
You used it for fun, now those gifts are mine