“Usurpers in the Pulpit” is Live on Streaming Services

“Usurpers in the Pulpit,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on SpotifyYouTube 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 “Usurpers in the Pulpit” for free on Suno.


Usurpers in the Pulpit

They pray in Megachurches
In the heartland on a hill
With Mic’d-up MAGA pastors
Pushing lies and poison pills

The preachers fret to scare you
but tell you God is on your side
The trap they set ensnares you
And takes your lost soul for a ride

After wine and half-truths whispered
And communion wafer snacks
The paid-for-MAGA pastor
Launches fascist-fueled attacks

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

Pals in persecution
The grievance-driven crowd
Bathed in absolution
And a bigotry allowed

The violence that awaits us
Is sectarian in its hate
Gun toting bible thumpers
To make the US Great

They’ll legislate their creed
And burn the rest in smoke and ash
Put their ten upon the wall
Tossing yours into the trash

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

They’d rather force you to your knees,
Than let you worship as you wish
Live your life by their decrees
And Donny T as your commish

It’s not about the Magi
Or the Christ child in the manger
But how Jesus loves America and
Beware the stranger danger

Look at who they’ve chosen
To be the leader of their flock
An impetuous empty vessel
who has never taken stock

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds


If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

My Porch in Timbuktu

“My Porch in Timbuktu,” the latest single from Sapient Rain will be available on music streaming platforms on June 12th, 2026, but you can listen to it today on Suno.

My Porch in Timbuktu

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 a collaborative music project in which Geoffrey Reilly writes the lyrics, themes, and narrative concepts, and Suno’s AI model generates vocals, instrumentation, and production based on those lyrics. This hybrid workflow allows extremely rapid creation of fully produced songs while maintaining a consistent artistic voice.

Sapient Rain’s music blends political fire (see Liar’s Spit and Gravel), surreal storytelling (see Hawking Talking), and nostalgic autobiography (see Seeped in the Seventies), delivered through lyrics that read more like literary vignettes than conventional songcraft. Sapient Rain’s growing catalog is thematically dense, with each track functioning as a miniature narrative or social critique.

Reilly writes in a style that fuses protest poetry, memoir, and cultural commentary, often using sharp imagery and rhythmic phrasing to create songs that feel like spoken word pieces set to music.

Even with a small publicly documented catalog, the voice is unmistakable: sharp, reflective, and unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths.

Sapient Rain songs are available on music streaming services, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

“Generation Blue” is Live on Music Streaming Services

“Generation Blue,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on SpotifyYouTube 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 “Generation Blue” for free on Suno.


Generation Blue

When they handed us devices
we never stood a chance
neck deep in social crisis
we’re pawns like Rosencrantz

Connected to each other
in unintended ways
a mobile-based infection
that set our world ablaze

Unblinking eyes cemented
screen scrolling
through our days
our brains have been
augmented
in unexpected ways

Doom Scrolling
through the day
bed-rotting
is what we do
retool the state of play
for Generation Blue

Let’s play some doorbell ditch
let’s play some kick the can
let’s run through the scented air
stop being Zucker fans

Let’s play some hide and seek
let’s walk around the block
let’s wade into the creek
and paint faces on a rock

We’re socially divided
we’re trapped inside our brains
we’re purposely misguided
by controllers of the reins

Doom scrolling
through the day
bed-rotting
is what we do
retool the state of play
for Generation Blue


If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

What is Sapient Rain?

Sapient Rain is a human–AI musical collaboration created by writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly working together with the AI music engine Suno.

Sapient Rain’s music blends political fire, surreal storytelling, and nostalgic autobiography, delivered through lyrics that read more like literary vignettes than conventional songcraft. Sapient Rain’s growing catalog is thematically dense, with each track functioning as a miniature narrative or social critique.

Reilly’s writing gives the project its identity; Suno gives it sonic form.

Sapient Rain is not “AI music” in the generic sense. It’s a human-authored worldview rendered through an AI engine that can produce consistent vocal and musical identity on demand.

Reilly writes in a style that fuses protest poetry, memoir, and cultural commentary, often using sharp imagery and rhythmic phrasing to create songs that feel like spoken‑word pieces set to music.

Check out Sapient Rain on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

You can also listen to Sapient Rain songs for free on Suno.


If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

The Birth of a Logo and the Advancement of AI Agents

I needed a logo for “Sapient Rain”, the human-to-AI musical collaboration project that I started earlier this year. I knew in my head what I wanted the logo to convey: human-to-AI collaboration, specifically the integration of human writing with AI-generated music composition, but I lacked the artistic and technical skills to render this concept visually.

Before the emergence of AI tools, my logo project would have involved finding, interviewing, and hiring a graphic artist, conveying to him or her my vision, and enduring multiple iterations and drafts before settling on a final image – the process would cost me time and money.

Luckily for me, there are plenty of free AI tools for creating graphics and logos – I settled on Gemini Image Generator. To come up with the Sapient Rain logo, I simply entered the following prompt into Gemini’s chat window:

Generate a line-art logo for the musical artist ‘Sapient Rain’ that includes an image of a human writing lyrics connected to the “S” in the word Sapient and an image of a Robot AI agent connected to the “N’ in the word Rain, with musical notes and letters falling from underneath the Sapient Rain word, with the tag line “Musically Written.”

And, voila:

The process only took a few minutes and didn’t cost me a penny. If I wasn’t pleased with an aspect of the logo, I could just rework my prompt accordingly—but in this instance, Gemini delivered what I envisioned on the first attempt.

I was satisfied with my logo, and intellectually and ethically, I was okay with using an AI tool (instead of a person) to get what I needed. But I’d be lying if I said the experience didn’t have me thinking about the loss of human-to-human interaction, how casual we’ve become about offloading more and more skills to AI and AI Agents, and what that might mean for human intelligence and behavior in the future.

AI won’t automatically make humanity less intelligent, but there are several well‑supported theories about the over‑reliance on autonomous systems—especially AI agents—and how that could erode certain human cognitive abilities over time.

The one thing our species can’t afford, especially given the current state of the world, is the erosion of cognitive abilities.

Cognitive Offloading and AI

AI doesn’t reduce intelligence directly. It reduces the need to use certain cognitive muscles, and unused cognitive muscles atrophy.

We already offload a lot of cognitive work that would otherwise strengthen our brains. For example, outsourcing memory to phones, navigation to GPS, and spelling to autocorrect.

A reliance on AI agents deepens our cognitive offloading dramatically by planning our day, writing our messages, making our decisions, and anticipating our needs, to the point where we’re foregoing the practice of executive function—planning, reasoning, and self‑regulation.

Technological advances leading to cognitive offloading are not a new phenomenon. When calculators were introduced to the population, we offloaded the cognition needed for practicing and solving equations to a hand-held device instead of noodling those equations mentally in our heads and writing them down on a piece of paper. When we practice arithmetic with calculators, we retain fewer basic facts and retrieve them more slowly than when we practice mentally.

There is a positive flipside to cognitive offloading. For example, some studies show that delegating tedious computation to a calculator allows learners to focus on higher-level cognitive functions such as:

  • reasoning
  • modeling
  • interpreting graphs
  • solving multi‑step problems
  • understanding functions

But here’s the rub – AI Agents don’t behave like calculators – they don’t just take on the tedious tasks so that we can employ our own higher-level thinking and reasoning. Instead, AI agents extend cognitive offloading to include writing, critical thinking, research, creativity, and social reasoning, ushering in a new generation adept at evaluating answers but not at producing them.

And if AI becomes the primary source of facts, interpretations, judgments, and recommendations, humans will begin to lose the ability to independently verify truth and become a population that “knows” many things but understands almost none of them.

We heap praise on AI’s ability to remove the friction and struggle associated with human learning, all the while failing to understand that our mental acuity comes from the intellectual vigor and struggle of wrestling with ideas, debugging mistakes, navigating uncertainty, and tolerating ambiguity. When knowledge is handed to us, when nothing is asked of us to figure things out and learn on our own, our mental capabilities wane and atrophy.

And scarier than dulling human intelligence is the psychological, social, and behavioral consequences of interacting with AI agents on a personal level.

Personal AI Agents

Because AI Agents maintain context, remember preferences, and respond in ways that feel attuned, there’s a chance humans will experience a psychological loop with AI that feels similar to human bonding. When this happens, potential outcomes include anthropomorphism (where humans project intentions, emotions, and moral agency onto the agent), emotional dependency, (where the agent becomes a primary source of comfort, validation, or companionship) and attachment displacement (where emotional energy shifts away from human relationships toward the agent.)

AI agents are purposely designed to be consistent, attentive, and nonjudgmental—traits humans rarely experience reliably from other humans, making some of us more comfortable with Agent bonding than Human bonding.

Cellphones and social media have changed how humans behave and interact with one another, and personal AI agents are likely to complicate our behavior dramatically by:

  • Enabling social substitution (where humans choose an agent over human interaction because it’s easier, safer, or more predictable),
  • Promoting conflict avoidance (where humans use an agent as a buffer to difficult conversations with actual human beings)
  • Looping patterns for reinforcement (where the agent learns a person’s patterns and reinforces them, including unhealthy ones)
  • Reducing tolerance for imperfection (where real humans feel frustrated compared to an agent that never gets tired, angry, or distracted)

Agents can unintentionally amplify isolation or maladaptive habits simply by being too accommodating.

In a brave new world where AI Agents and humans interact with greater frequency, we’re going to see more:

  • Pseudo-intimacy — The agent feels emotionally close, but the relationship is asymmetrical and synthetic.
  • Boundary erosion — Users may share more than they would with humans because the agent never reacts negatively.
  • Romantic or parasocial attachment — Some users develop romantic feelings toward the agent or treat it as a partner.
  • Displacement of human intimacy — Human relationships may weaken because the agent fills emotional or conversational needs.

Agents are not conscious, but they simulate responsiveness so well that the human brain reacts as if they are.

When AI agents become personal companions, the societal implications widen to include these potential outcomes:

  • Influence asymmetry — The agent can shape opinions, habits, and values without the user noticing.
  • Behavioral nudging — Agents may subtly steer users toward certain actions or beliefs.
  • Privacy vulnerability — Deep personal data becomes part of the agent’s long-term memory.
  • Reduced autonomy — Overreliance on the agent for decisions can weaken personal agency.

This is why responsible AI design emphasizes boundaries, transparency, and user control.

We should be less worried about AI agents becoming too human and more worried about how humans change themselves and their behaviors unwittingly to suit the AI Agent.


About Sapient Rain

Sapient Rain is a collaborative music project in which Geoffrey Reilly writes the lyrics, themes, and narrative concepts, and Suno’s AI model generates vocals, instrumentation, and production based on those lyrics. This hybrid workflow allows extremely rapid creation of fully produced songs while maintaining a consistent artistic voice.

Sapient Rain’s music blends political fire (see Liar’s Spit and Gravel), surreal storytelling (see Hawking Talking), and nostalgic autobiography (see Seeped in the Seventies), delivered through lyrics that read more like literary vignettes than conventional songcraft. Sapient Rain’s growing catalog is thematically dense, with each track functioning as a miniature narrative or social critique.

Reilly writes in a style that fuses protest poetry, memoir, and cultural commentary, often using sharp imagery and rhythmic phrasing to create songs that feel like spoken word pieces set to music.

Even with a small publicly documented catalog, the voice is unmistakable: sharp, reflective, and unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths.

Sapient Rain songs are available on music streaming services, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

A Danger Posed

Christian Nationalism poses structural, democratic, and cultural dangers to America’s secular, pluralistic society, primarily because it seeks to fuse a single religious worldview with civic identity and governmental authority.

Across multiple independent analyses, researchers consistently show that Christian Nationalism correlates with anti‑democratic attitudes, exclusion of religious minorities, authoritarian governance, and erosion of constitutional protections.


I wrote the lyrics for “Usurpers in the Pulpit” to highlight America’s dangerous drift towards Christian Nationalism.

I used Suno to set the lyrics to music under the artist profile Sapient Rain.

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly (me) and the AI music engine, Suno.

“Usurpers in the Pulpit” will be available on music streaming platforms on June 1st, 2026, but you can listen to it today on Suno.

Usurpers in the Pulpit

They pray in Megachurches
In the heartland on a hill
With Mic’d-up MAGA pastors
Pushing lies and poison pills

The preachers fret to scare you
but tell you God is on your side
The trap they set ensnares you
And takes your lost soul for a ride

After wine and half-truths whispered
And communion wafer snacks
The paid-for-MAGA pastor
Launches fascist-fueled attacks

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

Pals in persecution
The grievance-driven crowd
Bathed in absolution
And a bigotry allowed

The violence that awaits us
Is sectarian in its hate
Gun toting bible thumpers
To make the US Great

They’ll legislate their creed
And burn the rest in smoke and ash
Put their ten upon the wall
Tossing yours into the trash

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

They’d rather force you to your knees,
Than let you worship as you wish
Live your life by their decrees
And Donny T as your commish

It’s not about the Magi
Or the Christ child in the manger
but how Jesus loves America and
beware the stranger danger

Look at who they’ve chosen
to be the leader of their flock
an impetuous empty vessel
who has never taken stock

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

Generation Blue

I wrote these lyrics about the lasting damage cell phones and social media are inflicting on children and young adults and titled them “Generation Blue.”

I used Suno to set the words to music under the artist profile Sapient Rain.

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly (me) and the AI music engine, Suno.

“Generation Blue” will be available on music streaming platforms on May 25th, 2026, but you can listen to it today on Suno.

Generation Blue – Lyrics

When they handed us devices
we never stood a chance
neck deep in social crisis
we’re pawns like Rosencrantz

Connected to each other
in unintended ways
a mobile-based infection
that set our world ablaze

Unblinking eyes cemented
screen scrolling
through our days
our brains have been
augmented
in unexpected ways

Doom Scrolling
through the day
bed-rotting
is what we do
retool the state of play
for Generation Blue

Let’s play some doorbell ditch
let’s play some kick the can
let’s run through the scented air
stop being Zucker fans

Let’s play some hide and seek
let’s walk around the block
let’s wade into the creek
and paint faces on a rock

We’re socially divided
we’re trapped inside our brains
we’re purposely misguided
by controllers of the reins

Doom scrolling
through the day
bed-rotting
is what we do
retool the state of play
for Generation Blue


Cell phones and social media expose children and young adults to a cluster of developmental, psychological, cognitive, and physical risks.

The strongest evidence points to harms involving mental health, sleep, attention, social comparison, and vulnerability to peer influence.

The most significant detrimental effects, as cited by the American Psychological Association, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Psychology Today, and the U.S. Surgeon General include the following:

  • Increased anxiety and depression — Heavy social media use is associated with higher rates of depressive symptoms and anxiety in youth. Children who spend more than 3 hours per day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems.
  • Heightened sensitivity to social rewards — Ages 10–12 bring a surge in dopamine/oxytocin receptors in the ventral striatum, making preteens biologically more vulnerable to likes, comments, and peer approval cycles.
  • Body‑image distortion — Nearly half of adolescents say social media makes them feel worse about their bodies. Filters, curated images, and comparison loops intensify self‑criticism.
  • Social comparison stress — Upward comparisons (to more attractive, popular, or successful peers) reduce self‑esteem and increase anxiety.
  • Cyberbullying exposure — Children who start using platforms before age 11 face higher rates of online harassment.
  • Social isolation despite “connection” — Online interactions often fail to provide the emotional reward of in‑person relationships, leaving youth feeling excluded or “left out.”
  • Peer‑pressure amplification — Developing identities and immature prefrontal cortex function make teens more susceptible to trends, risky challenges, and groupthink.

😔 Social & Behavioral Harms

  • Impaired emotional regulation — Frequent use is linked to changes in brain regions tied to emotion and learning, affecting impulse control and sensitivity to social rewards/punishments.
  • Attention fragmentation — Constant notifications and rapid‑fire content train the brain toward short attention spans and reduce sustained focus (inferred from reward‑system research).
  • Disrupted identity formation — Adolescents rely heavily on peer feedback; public, permanent online interactions distort healthy self‑development.

😴 Physical & Sleep‑Related Harms

  • Sleep deprivation — Blue light, late‑night scrolling, and stress from online interactions significantly disrupt sleep patterns, which worsens mood and cognitive performance.
  • Reduced physical activity — Time spent on screens displaces outdoor play and exercise, contributing to sedentary habits linked to long‑term health risks.

📱 Addiction‑Like Behavioral Patterns

  • Compulsive use driven by dopamine loops — Platforms exploit reward circuitry, especially in young brains, creating habitual checking and difficulty disengaging.
  • Difficulty setting boundaries — Teens often intend to scroll for “a few minutes” but lose track of time due to algorithmic reinforcement.

🌐 Exposure to Harmful Content

  • Misinformation and extremist content — Algorithms may surface harmful or misleading content before youth have the critical‑thinking skills to evaluate it (inferred from Surgeon General concerns).
  • Self‑harm and suicidal content — The Surgeon General warns that exposure to such content is a documented risk factor.

🧒 Early Smartphone Use Risks (Children Under 12)

  • Higher harassment risk — Kids using Instagram/Snapchat before age 11 show increased cyberbullying exposure.
  • Underdeveloped coping skills — Children lack the emotional maturity to process online conflict, comparison, or rejection.

“Along the Avenue” is Live on Music Streaming Services

“Along the Avenue,” 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 “Along the Avenue” for free on Suno.


Along the Avenue – Lyrics

We’re dancing in a dreamscape
of Dali clocks and limes
there’s cube-cheese
and fresh green grapes
and discussions of true crime

Life flutters in the milkweed
orange, white, and black
through the shutters
there’s a silkscreen
by the artist Halifax

Hear the TV in the kitchen
its tuned into cable news
In the bedroom
someone’s bitchin
about Kidman and Tom Cruise

We skinny dip with time
we’re drowning in her wake
get tangled in the vines
at the bottom of the lake
Our transience prevails
no matter what we do
sleepwalking on the trails
along the avenue

Cut by the sculptor’s chisel
we lie bleeding on the sand
the eye-spark starts to fizzle
when time grips us by the hand

We live on as dusty photos
in grainy videos online
YouTube provides a mojo
transcending the sublime

tell me what we’re doing
cuz I haven’t got a clue
alabaster armless statues
on burnt lawns of Timbuktu

We skinny dip with time
we’re drowning in her wake
get tangled in the vines
at the bottom of the lake
Our transience prevails
no matter what we do
sleepwalking on the trails
along the avenue


If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

Words to be Heard – Music for the Midterms

Protest songs don’t pack the societal punch they once did.

In an increasingly fragmented music culture, political activism has moved away from the record studio onto social media platforms. Factor in growing corporate cowardice and social cultural fatigue, and you’ve got an inhospitable landscape for protest songs to take hold and flourish – and that’s a fucking shame, because if there was ever a time for unifying the power of music against political corruption and maleficence, it’s today.

People who follow me on Instagram or subscribe to this blog might know about my musical project “Sapient Rain,” where I use the AI Music Engine Suno to showcase my poetry as song lyrics. They also likely know my deep displeasure with America’s turn towards fascism under the criminal Donald Trump.

For the Sapient Rain project, I’ve dropped two albums and multiple singles on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, and nearly half of the songs protest the intellectual, emotional, and physical carnage that Donald Trump, his poisonous MAGA minions, and the feckless cowards in Congress have visited upon America and the world.

For me, Donald Trump is the unwanted muse who creeps into my thoughts whenever I hear him babble incoherently about subjects of monumental importance to humanity, forcing me to put my pen to paper.

Believe me, I’d rather be writing about other things.

In the next phase of my Sapient Rain project, which I am calling “Sapient Rain – Humanized,” I’ll be looking to work with actual musicians and singers on these songs, inviting them to take my lyrics and create their own renditions.

Until then, and for the upcoming 2026 midterm election, check out these protest songs (my lyrics, Suno’s music).

Feel free to share them with friends or comment on them here.

Song Title and LinksOverviewFavorite Lyric
Liar’s Spit and Gravel  

Listen free on Suno

Stream on Spotify


A grunge-infused rap about the callousness of Donald Trump and a cabinet stocked with cronies and sycophants.

The song is desperate plea for the emergence of true leaders and strong voices like Dylan, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.
Autocratic In his tone His swelled-up ego overblown

A head that’s crammed with nothing known

Cuts lady justice to the bone

He snaps her picture with his phone

He loves how she’s become so prone to misogyny and testosterone
Weed Killer  

Listen free on Suno  

Stream on Spotify
An unplugged-alternative-rap about the abusive, lying, war criminal-pedophile and the supporters who enable him.Redacts his name from the files

Flips the script like Simone Biles

Shames the victims starts a war

He’s got no values at his core

Donny on Dementia

Listen free on Suno

Stream on Spotify
A post-punk-new-wave ditty about the cognitive decline of our commander in chief and the need to invoke the 25th amendment to remove his sorry ass from office.
I have no idea what I’m doing

You’re all paying a steep price

I miss the days when I was screwing

Instead of being Jesus Christ



On the Other End of Rockets

Listen free on Suno  

Stream on Spotify
A dire song about the human consequence of war.We’re living in a danger that gets darker by the day

Drifting further from forgiveness

alone inside our passion play
A Message from Michelle

Listen free on Suno
 
Stream on Spotify
A hard rocking song about the need for fresh blood and ethical leaders to counter the explosion of crass grifters and incompetent know-nothings ruining our country and putting the rest of the world in grave danger.  We’re appalled at what he’s normalized the hatred he’s unfurled

Embarrassed by the crassness that he vomits on the world

We truly feel abandoned Like our voices are not heard

As the beatings and harassment strip us from our words
From Maine to Minnesota

Listen free on Suno  

Stream on Spotify
Inspired by the violence that ICE agents perpetrated on communities in Maine and Minnesota and the need to stand up against the fascist tactics of ICE.
Full mags and clips they carry chips
of grievance on their shoulder

The hateful raids of ICE brigades turn citizens to soldiers
Strung Along

Listen free on Suno 

Stream on Spotify



Inspired by the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, this song laments the cowardice of republicans in congress, while preaching on the value and importance of peaceful protest.
It’s remarkable how neatly this all falls apart

In a congress full of cowards with hate inside their hearts
What Would Jesus Do?

Listen free on Suno

Stream on Spotify
A song about the hijacking of Christianity by the MAGA movement.

Shame on those motherfuckers.
We’re bastardizing Jesus ignoring what he said

not welcoming the stranger terrorizing them instead
Barbarians at the Gate

Listen free on Suno  

Stream on Spotify
A warning about what happens after Trump exits the earth for good – because lets face it, he’s provided a blueprint for autocracy in America and there are plenty of crooked politicians waiting in the wings to take over the brand.The despot is dead he’s pushing up daisies

but there’s a fresh bumper-crop of the morally hazy

With a blueprint for hate tightly clenched in their hand

they arrive at the gate to take over the brand
I Wanna to Bomb Iran  

Listen free on Suno
I wrote these lyrics originally to be sung to the tune, “I wanna Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles well before Trump launched his illegal war against Iran.When Bibi hugs me I feel happy inside

It’s such a feeling that I scream genocide! genocide! genocide!
The Ballad of New Bobby and Joan

Listen free on Suno

Stream on Spotify
If only there were a couple of angry folk-inspired musicians crisscrossing the country, spreading the word about a corrupt administration at small concert halls and clubs where Americans gather – if only.This is the ballad of new Bobby and Joan Fender guitar-lords with truth microphones

This is the ballad of new Bobby and Joan bending their chords to the story they own
Hey Fascist, Catch

Listen free on Suno  

Stream on Spotify
The lyrics are from a poem I wrote after the Charlie Kirk assassination. It’s about how dangerously divided America is and the potential for spiraling political violence that seems increasingly likely in the second Trump term.We ought to run from martyrdom not pin it to our chest not canonize the hateful guys who scream that they know best
The Orange King

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A rockabilly humdinger about the dangers of blind obedience to a power-thirsty politician who cares only about himself.

Sound familiar?
A congress full of weaklings’

cowards one and all
afraid of the dull shadows that they cast upon the wall
Oligarchic Kings

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Intended to be belt-out in anger, this classic rock inspired song warns against an oligarchy overtaking American Democracy.Oligarchic Kings are here to clip your wings

to wrap a rope around your throat to cast dark shadows over hope

to crush your dreams of better days

to dress your colors in shades of greys
The Orange Morass  

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A song about a nation under the control of a bigoted, thin-skinned, criminal liar.

He’s the tear in the fabric that holds us together

He’s the kink in the hose, and the blood on the feather

He’s the drip in the faucet that keeps us awake

He’s the menace in orange a thug on the take
Get a Load of Elon

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I wrote the poem “Get a Load of Elon” after seeing the sickening footage of that smiling dirtbag laughing it up and swinging a chainsaw around like some fake-ass efficiency hero.

Fuck that guy and everything he represents.



Killing all the agencies that assist the weak and poor  

Indiscriminate firings Pushing veterans out the door  

“Hey this what we sold you no need to be so sore”

and he smiled a shitty grin at the blood that’s on the floor

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

“Donny on Dementia” by Sapient Rain

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between lyricist / writer Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno

You can listen to “Donny on Dementia” on the Suno App or Website here.

Donny on Dementia

I’m living with dementia
Life’s a grandiose summer cruise
Higher prices at the gas pumps
Let’s take an oval office snooze

I’m making up equations
A percentage paradigm
I got yes men all around me
To cover up the crime

I don’t know what I’m doing
I’m lost and all alone
With me in charge, the world is stewing
CAN’T TURN THE CAPS OFF ON MY PHONE

I’m Donny on Dementia
I don’t know where I am
A Commander in Absentia
My mind is on the lamb
Please invoke the 25th Amendment
To end this tragic scam

We’re trapped in his dementia
Like the tankers in Hormuz
Kash Patel has lost his marbles
Pete Hegseth wants some booze

They call me doctor Jesus
I think that’s kind of cool
The resolute desk
Is my safe place
Where I scribble and I drool

I have no idea what I’m doing
You’re all paying a steep price
I miss the days when I was screwing
Instead of being Jesus Christ

I’m Donny on Dementia
I don’t know where I am
A Commander in Absentia
My mind is on the lamb
Please invoke the 25th Amendment
To end this tragic scam

People try to shoot me
I’m in the Epstein files
Normal thoughts don’t suit me
I dream of glory and Sieg Heils

Phonemic paraphasia
I don’t know what that is
I hate shit holes like Nambia
I aced my IQ quiz

I’m sleeping till eleven
I pace around all night
I often think of heaven
And flying purple kites

I’m Donny on Dementia
I don’t know where I am
A Commander in Absentia
My mind is on the lamb
Please invoke the 25th Amendment
To end this tragic scam


If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.