Failure to Communicate

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FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
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STYLE PROMPT (paste into "Style of Music")
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upbeat new wave, post-punk, Tex-Mex surf guitar, bouncy synth bass, driving percussion, deadpan male baritone, major key, quirky, dark comedy, storytelling, 130 bpm, 80s, radio fade out


TAGGED LYRICS (paste into "Lyrics")
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[Intro]

[Verse 1]
He was chatting with his AI on a Tuesday night
to find his mom a gift that's just right
She's the center of his nuclear family, see
he just wants to set her sad heart free
And a cookbook where the recipes just bomb, pure gold
to warm her tired bones against the cold

[Verse 2]
She'll destroy the weeds and beetles, then she'll plant a row
the prettiest in the garden grow
So he types a little shopping list to end the call
some seeds, some shears, an apron, that's all

[Chorus]
But the server heard a threat in every word he said
now there's red flags flashing, see them spread
Bomb and kill and nuclear, destroy, it's all right there
no context and nobody to care

[Verse 3]
Three days later, just past dawn, they kicked his front door in
with guns and badges, oh what a sin
And they cuffed him on the floor and would not say a word
and no one saw how it was all absurd

[Chorus]
But the server heard a threat in every word he said
now there's red flags flashing, see them spread
Bomb and kill and nuclear, destroy, it's all right there
no context and nobody to care

[Verse 4]
So they sat him down and asked, now what about the plot?
and he swears he never planned a plot
They showed him the transcript, said it's right there, black and white
but I never said it, this ain't right
But it says you did, they told him, and the page don't lie
and so nobody would reason why

[Bridge]
So they marched him down the hallway to a cold steel cell
and the slammer door rang like a bell
He's a model citizen who only loves his mom
now he's locked up, ticking like a bomb

[Verse 5]
Now the warden reads the file, he shakes his head and sighs
he looks at this poor man with tired eyes
What we have here is a failure to communicate
no one stops to set the record straight

[Outro]
What we have here is a failure to communicate
(bomb, kill, nuclear, destroy)
What we have here is a failure to communicate
(bomb, kill, nuclear, destroy)
A failure, a failure, a failure to communicate
(it's all right there, it's all right there)
A failure, a failure, a failure to communicate
(it's all right there, it's all right there)
Failure to communicate
(nobody, nobody, nobody to care)
Failure to communicate
(nobody, nobody, nobody to care)
Failure to communicate...
[fade out]


GENERATION TIPS
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- The deadpan baritone is the whole joke. If Suno sings it too earnest or pretty, add "monotone, ironic" to the style and regenerate.
- That bounce wants to rush. If it gallops past the punchlines, drop "130 bpm" to "120 bpm" so the warden's line has room to land.
- Outro back-vocals: if Suno flattens the parentheses into the lead, change them to standalone lines like [Backing Vocals: bomb, kill, nuclear, destroy].
- "loses signal" / "radio fade out" in the style nudges the ending toward a transmission-dying fade instead of a clean studio fade.

NOTES
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- Form: 13/9 alternating syllables, hard rhyme throughout.
- Third person, dark comedy, Dick Dale x Oingo Boingo x Wall of Voodoo target.
- Callback: "ticking like a bomb" (bridge) pays back the cooking "bomb" (verse 1).

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