Once upon a sway – Dark Cinematic, Noir Jazz, Trip Hop Versions | Song created with Suno (my lyrics, my voice)

Once upon a sway – Dark Cinematic, Noir Jazz, Trip Hop Versions | Song created with Suno (my lyrics, my voice)
25 August 2026
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## 🧠 ABOUT THE PROCESS

I transformed my original poem by adapting it into lyrics that were then used for a song generated using Suno, featuring my voice. Below you’ll find part of the original poem, the revised lyrics, and the musical version.

## 📜 ORIGINAL POEM

Some relationships leave behind memories that sway between enchantment and illusion. Looking back, we no longer see only what was promised, but also the stories we told ourselves, the performances we believed, and the dreams that quietly shaped us. Once upon a sway is not about blame, but about understanding how the heart remembers, how memory becomes theatre, and how, with time, even the deepest emotions find their place among the shelves of our lives.

It happened
Once upon a sway
South to North
Made its way
Happenchance cooked up the mess
The ease to undress

Read the full original poem here:
https://geethabalvannanathan.com/2016/06/30/once-upon-a-sway/

## ✍️ ADAPTED LYRICS

[Verse]
It happened, once upon a sway
The South to the North made its way
Happenchance cooked up slow the mess
enhancing the ease to undress

[Verse]
I knew him like palm knows fingers
The trending beauty that lingers
like listless humming, crossed my Heart
He engulfed me whole with his Art

[Verse]
He said soft Words that made no sense
They knocked me senseless, no defence
“The promise of your womb my dear
feels like Paradise that is clear”

[Chorus]
It happened once upon a sway
Dimly lit Memories find way
They swell up from so long ago
like a rising scene from a Noh

[Verse]
Unabashed, we flew through the lies
bottom up, in and out of skies
Flung like silk stockings discarded
upon tiny racks hope ended

[Verse]
It was done, like a yearly deed
we recollect like treasures need
Fault to none, needy bear no strife
They dwell in Narrow shelves of Life

[Chorus]
It happened once upon a sway
Dimly lit Memories find way
They swell up from so long ago
like a rising scene from a Noh

## 🎧 SUNO SONG

Listen to how this poem transforms into music across different styles:

### 🎬 Dark Cinematic version
Dark Cinematic ambient with haunting female vocals, reverbed piano, plaintive cello, slow emotional build-up and immersive atmospheric soundscapes
Once upon a sway – Cinematic Song | My Original Lyrics, My Voice (Suno)
### 🎷 Noir Jazz version
A dark Jazz version with haunting female vocals, slow hypnotic mood, emotionally intimate and introspective
Once upon a sway – Noir Jazz Song | My Original Lyrics, My Voice (Suno)
### 🌌 Trip-Hop version
A hypnotic Trip-Hop interpretation blending haunting textures, introspective rhythms and atmospheric depth
Once upon a sway – Trip-Hop Song | My Original Lyrics, My Voice (Suno)
## 🎼 ABOUT THESE VERSIONS

This piece has been interpreted across multiple musical styles using Suno, exploring how the same lyrics evolve through Dark Cinematic, Noir Jazz and Trip-Hop influences.

## 🔗 OTHER LINKS – EXPLORE MORE

You might also like: Stardust
https://geethabalvannanathan.com/2026/07/01/stardust-ethereal-chillout-cinematic-dream-pop-trip-hop-versions-song-created-with-suno-my-lyrics-my-voice/

Southern bound

Southern bound

5 May 2017

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Look around

Forlorn beaten ground

None to hound

Southern bound

The pathways never astound

Master of the sound

 

Reading of the poem: 

Southerly signals – As Seas Exhale

Vers l’Avant – As Seas Exhale

The Healing process – As Seas Exhale

 

Stairway to the skies

Stairway to the Skies

3 November 2015

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Treasures forgotten

The well brimmed with yellow sands

That whispered in nights

 

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I know the stories

Of well where a pitcher grew

Upon ivy’s roots

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In that well yellow

Transformed into purest gold

Midas I anew

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The touch of the rain

Scintillating in the sparks

Brimmed with Eternal

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Weary travellers

From the East and from the West

Drank from the pitcher

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Many distressed souls

From the North and from the South

Ate from the ivy

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My flesh and my wine

Iridescent offerings

Multiplied in Love

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Multiply me whole

There are hungers in this world

I will ever quench

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Distribute my soul

Let it be solace’s lace

Shimmering blue veil

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Strew me upon hills

Gather me in the valleys

Stir me in rivers

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Climb through me mountains

Let me be your blue ladder

Stairway to the Skies

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Free my airborne hair

Build upon my very Heart

Pathway to the Gods

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