Intro (spoken, sly, over piano vamp)

Ladies and gentlemen,

Please keep your ears inside the algorithm at all times

Verse 1

I’m a melody freak,

I chase tunes in my sleep,

Counting steps in the dark

While the dreamers all leap.

I hunt down the patterns,

Twist, tweak, and repeat,

Hit “run,” cross my fingers

Hope the thing swings sweet.

Verse 2

Magic’s tricky, hard to catch,

So I code a clever patch.

Math-brain wizard, lab-coat cool,

Melody’s my target — zap!

Ha! Look what I wrote last night,

MATLAB glowing bright,

Predefined chords in neat arrays,

Random notes take flight.

Pre-Chorus (bounce builds)

Graphs look gorgeous, curves behave,

Histogram says “bold and brave,”

Every run’s a hit parade

According to my spreadsheet page.

Chorus (big, cheeky, swing hard)

Every single time it works,

Every single time it breaks,

One day music turns to static,

Pure white noise and bad mistakes.

Notes go feral, chase their tails,

Wild geese flappin’ outta key,

I debugged the whole damn system

Turns out I forgot to listen, see?

Bridge (half-spoken, cabaret sass)

Too much FFT,

Not enough soul,

Optimized entropy,

Lost control.

Quantized feelings,

Normalized art,

Perfect math

But where’s the heart?

(piano does a sarcastic gliss)

Final Chorus (bigger, looser, audience claps)

Every single time it works,

Until it doesn’t — cue the crash!

Music smirks and steals my lunch

While I plot another graph.

Checked the loop and checked the seed,

Every bug I could locate,

Turns out melody escaped

While I automated fate.

Outro (spoken, smiling)

So I closed the code,

Put my ears back on,

Hit one wrong note

And the song was born.

(rimshot, applause)