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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.
Today, I have the whole song. It is not *anything* like the song that I set out to write.
Overall, I think that's a good thing.
I hope you like it!
Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2025
Real You
Do you worry what will happen when you’re gone?
Who will take care of your kids is number one.
Or maybe it’s a husband or a wife
That you will leave alone at end of life.
You’ve made sure that the money will be there,
Financially ok without your care.
But you know that in their hearts there’ll be a place
That needs to hear your voice and see your face.
(Chorus)
You could just leave them a letter,
But we can do it better,
Because nothing but the best will ever do.
You can talk with them each day
Even though you’ve gone away
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)
Upload what we ought to know.
Voice and pictures make it go.
Our AI makes it simple as you see.
Hook up our custom electrode.
Use our brand new Bulk Upload
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)
With our AI holographic Real You.
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.
Today, I have the whole song. It is not *anything* like the song that I set out to write.
Overall, I think that's a good thing.
I hope you like it!
Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2025
Real You
Do you worry what will happen when you’re gone?
Who will take care of your kids is number one.
Or maybe it’s a husband or a wife
That you will leave alone at end of life.
You’ve made sure that the money will be there,
Financially ok without your care.
But you know that in their hearts there’ll be a place
That needs to hear your voice and see your face.
(Chorus)
You could just leave them a letter,
But we can do it better,
Because nothing but the best will ever do.
You can talk with them each day
Even though you’ve gone away
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)
Upload what we ought to know.
Voice and pictures make it go.
Our AI makes it simple as you see.
Hook up our custom electrode.
Use our brand new Bulk Upload
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)
With our AI holographic Real You.
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