“My Porch in Timbuktu,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.
Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine, Suno.
You can listen to “My Porch in Timbuktu” for free on Suno.
I can barely hear you
your voice muffled by the dirt
Did you bring the children with you?
Is Suzy in her yellow skirt?
Its nothing like they told us
those Catholic teachers lied
It’s just a dark unbroken silence
and a solitude defied
What season are we in
I’ve lost all sense of time
the cohesion of chagrin
dissolving into the sublime
What color is the sky
Is it red or is it blue
I miss the spark inside your eyes
from my porch in Timbuktu
Would it all be different
if I chose to burn to ash
would I pass through gills of minnows
or die in the fire’s flash?
Breathless in the darkness
your heart, a dying dove
dress threads start to loosen
their hold on what was love
What season are we in
I’ve lost all sense of time
the cohesion of chagrin
dissolving into the sublime
What color is the sky
Is it red or is it blue
I miss the spark inside your eyes
from my porch in Timbuktu
I miss the sound of summer thunder
and waves crashing on the beach
Wilson Picket’s midnight hour
and that first bite into a peach
I’m in the chaos of my silence
in the loud loneliness of peace
there is no self-reliance
when you live your life along the crease
What season are we in
I’ve lost all sense of time
the cohesion of chagrin
dissolving into the sublime
What color is the sky
Is it red or is it blue
I miss the spark inside your eyes
from my porch in Timbuktu
Sapient Rain is best categorized as a human–AI hybrid musical project — specifically, a lyric‑driven, politically charged, genre‑fluid collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno.
For a free listen, check out the library of publicly available Sapient Rain tracks on Suno.
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