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.

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Building Grey

5 May 2017

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Humans stray

Locked into the Frey

Building Grey

Brothers slay

The blood that all ills will weigh

Dissolving the way

 

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Ten was the Number

23 October 2015

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You led strong the path

Stark contrasts blinded the eye

That dwelt in the mind

 

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I walked yesterday

Within your footsteps’ clamours

We both lost the way

 

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Recovering sight

I shook the night’s salty waves

And brought you the light

 

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You breathed into me

Heat of a thousand dragons

Forgotten treasure

 

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I frosted your mind

Brought to it a chilling peace

My deadly waters

 

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Tendrils lily white

Reaching out to ink pitch black

Rewrite nuances

 

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Softly exploring

I opened the Heart Channel

Regenerating

 

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Tomorrow’s bud stems

From roots that creep within Earth

Nine reaching for skies

 

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From nine we split Three

As you and I climbed the Tree

Climbing us becomes

 

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Ten was the Number

We had decomposed from nine

As the candles hung

 

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A life is enough

A life is enough

12 August 2015

 

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Forty seven years

Middle Ages’ lifetime felt

When life span bloomed less

 

Footsteps in water

Discovering way ahead

A life behind flowed

 

Writings on chalkboard

Memorising the lessons

Every minute earnt

 

Wisdom came timely

Heart expanding kept seizing

Opportunities

 

Reign in no Karma

Wandering spirit in Earth

I shall tread it once

  

A half floated by

And more wonders peeped yonder

From the green orchards

 

When you’ve lived it well

With heart’s petals blossoming

A life is enough

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Dance into the Wild

Dance into the Wild

10 August 2015

 

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Darkness splits from light

Silver rays of moon beckon

Unseen worlds will rise

 

Melodies clamour

Weaving a way through time’s space

Words respond entranced

 

Entwining souls meet

On the edge of horizons

Where Truths defeat lies

 

Skin from skin twitching

Palpable as volts shiver

Through frames fitted pair

 

Night breathes out softly

Moistness of lovers’ embrace

Breathing wilderness

 

Break away from day

As crows and nightingales bond

Dance into the Wild

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