FAWM: "Beliefs"

Beliefs

2025 by @daveyboy103 · @paulharrison

Liner Notes

You be the judge, but I'm not sure if this is song fodder or not. If anyone wants to put it to music, please let me know....I'll be fascinated in how you do it. I'm also game for just using parts, i.e., pick you favorite sections and/or maybe write a chorus or something else to connect the pieces. Regardless, comments are most appreciated. Happy FAWMing!

David: Ai used to convert my vocal to female, pretty effective I think and much better for the song's overall feel

#celtic #rock #ballad #acoustic #ai_vocals_conversion

Lyrics

I sometimes believe in innocence Watching the kids at play To see their joy and energy No matter what time of day

Once I believed in loyalty But loyalists can ignore truth Try to quiet other opinions Even the idealism of our youth

Once I believed in honesty But our leaders clearly lie Why should kids tell the truth When famous grownups don’t comply

Sometimes I believe in religions But too often they help cause war They seldom seem to help things Sometimes morals are ignored

I once believed a Christian life Meant caring for each other But our poor and needy neighbors Are thrown out or left to suffer

I once believed that America Stood against autocrats and kings I now see that even here What kind of leader wealth brings

I once believed in angels I guess I still kind of do Some say there are fewer But I can say I know a few

In spite of these disappointments A few things remain true Faithful friends and family But most of all…you

I once believed in honesty Got my facts from papers and TV news Now many are clearly biased Good reporting is done by the few

I once believed in compassion Until I saw so many look away I once believed in hard work Until big money paved another way

But I still believe in community To help each other cope To heal and provide support To those at the end of their rope

Comments

@timfatchenMod 2025

Didn't even see this when I commented on the lyric. Further to that--this has the needed combination of innocence and innocence lost, still with hope. Lovely production (and voice, yes it's AI and I'm having to use that too elsewhere). Magic at the end of FAWM! (Beats ends of rainbows every time)

@karlsburg25 2025

Omg musically this is such a perfect expressions of those perfect lyrics so much depth and beauty . I adore everything about this and omg your ai female voice is a stunner . No idea how you do that 😱

@daveyboy103 2025

@briggs I love Audimee and use it usually to generate female backing vox of various types. If you can do a reasonable falsetto then the conversions are great.

Ai will change music, there is no doubt about that and I consider this no different than using the BBC Symphony Orchestra plugin from Spitfire. I don't have an orchestra in my studio nor females singers on tap.

@briggs 2025

This is a great song, lyrically and musically. I really enjoyed it. I listened to it before reading the liner notes, and I was shocked that it was an AI converted male to female voice. Amazing technology.

@celineellis 2025

Wow - this is such a great sound. The lyrics are fabulous and tell an old story. I can’t believe the AI vocal conversion - female vocal is ideal on this. It has a capercallie meets Celine dion feel to it (not sure how you spell that bands name!!) you have made gorgeous melodic choices in this, and Beth rightly pointed out the uplift in the ‘I once believed’

@daveyboy103 2025

@billwhite51 It will be indistinguishable soon, this stuff is only getting better end the subscription is $10 a month

@billwhite51 2025

that vocal converter is awesome. the singing definitely sounds like you, and the conversion doesnt robotify it. the lyric is excellent, although i get tired of people complaining that christianity causes wars. it is, of course, an element in many conflicts..but the pre-christian world was a far bloodier one, a world in which rape and murder among humans was as natural as the behavior of other aggressive animals, and nobody saw killing as wrongdoing.

@daveyboy103 2025

@bethdesombre Thanks. The vocal conversions are amazing, cannot believe this was actually me. http://www.audimee.com

@bethdesombre 2025

This is beautiful -- love the arpeggios the underpin the arrangement, and the melody is gorgeous and evocative. (I love the upward movement on "once I believed.") Lyrically the framing works really well -- "once I believed" followed by the things that have dashed that belief . . . but the song giving us things we can still believe in.