The Words They Forget
The Words They Forget is reflective, wounded, philosophical, and observant. It feels less like a pop lyric and more like a literary meditation or spoken-word poem about emotional damage caused by careless speech and false…
At Last
This song is about a quiet, hidden love that finally becomes real. It captures the feeling of someone who spent a long time admiring another person from a distance — unnoticed, unseen, almost invisible —…
What Remains
🎼 WHAT REMAINS — Song Meaning This song explores a simple but powerful idea: When everything is stripped back, only truth remains. It reflects a world where words can be shaped, repeated, and made to…
It Won’t Hold
🎼 IT WON’T HOLD — Song Meaning
This song is about the idea that truth cannot be permanently hidden or reshaped.
It reflects a world where words are often used to:
soften reality
Risen ( Extended Easter Song )
This song is about the moment everything changes—quietly. Not with noise, not with spectacle, but with a realisation. A shift from loss to presence. From emptiness to something alive again. It begins in that still…
Risen ( A Simple Anthem )
This song is about the moment everything changes—quietly. Not with noise, not with spectacle, but with a realisation. A shift from loss to presence. From emptiness to something alive again. It begins in that still…
Only Joe – 2nd Version
Inspired by the great book – Dickens – Great Expectations This song tells the story of a man who never stopped being who he was. Joe isn’t a grand figure. He doesn’t arrive with confidence…
Only Joe
Inspired by the Great Book – Dickens – Great Expectations This song tells the story of a man who never stopped being who he was. Joe isn’t a grand figure. He doesn’t arrive with confidence…
The Story that Matters
This song is about what remains when a life is stripped back to its truth. All the noise we live in—the striving, the recognition, the sense of being seen—fades with time. Voices quieten, strength softens,…
Something in Your Eyes Tonight ( Love Going away)
This song is about the moment love slips away without a word. Not an argument, not a slammed door—just a look. A feeling. Something subtle, but undeniable. The kind of moment where you realise the…
High Life
This song is about a quieter kind of living. Not chasing, not proving—just getting through the day and finding something good in it. It’s the feeling of having very little, but not letting that take…
No Money Blues
This song is about a kind of wealth that doesn’t show up in your bank account. It’s about walking through life with nothing in your pocket, but still feeling like you’ve got everything that matters.…
Why Chord Stream Exists
A Small Philosophy of Music in the Age of AI
Three reflections on creativity, technology, and listening
By Michael Forty
Founder — Chord Stream
Bring my Baby Back to Me
Bring My Baby Back to Me – Song Description "No pride left. No mystery." Most pleading songs spend at least some of their energy making the case for why the other person ought to return…
Surrender Tonight
Verse 1
The room is smaller than it was before
Words still hanging in the air
Two tired people guarding separate doors
Phrase Length – Songwriting Guide
The Listener’s Guide to Emotional Lyrics
Understanding Phrase Length and Why Some Songs Feel Different
Introduction
When you listen to a song that moves you, something subtle is happening.
Something in Your Eyes Tonight (Love)
🎵 Something In Your Eyes Tonight (60s single)
Verse 1
Something in your eyes tonight
Soft and warm and shining bright
Creating AI Music and the Songwriter’s Dream
A Complete Guide to Writing Emotional Songs with AI
Preface
For most of history, songwriting belonged to those with access — instruments, studios, training, or opportunity.
Yet songs have always existed in ordinary people.
Spring Time
Why There Are Multiple Versions
Sometimes a song doesn’t arrive once.
It arrives in layers.
I write the lyric.
Daffodils
Blossom leans over hedgerows white,
Daffodils flare in yellow light,
Bluebells ring in woodland air,
Primroses whisper, winter’s not there.
Grace and the Green Girl – Wicked
Grace and the Green Girl (Wicked) – Song Description "To lose the crowd, to save your soul, to rise alone into your fate." This one was written after watching a young woman I know find…
Lucky Me
This is what happens when we are lucky.
Too many songs to choose from – just keep em all …
Verse 1
We woke in beds,
Something in Your Eyes Tonight – 1st cut ( After Love)
🎵 Something In Your Eyes Tonight (After Love)
Verse 1
Something in your eyes tonight
Doesn’t feel the same
Notepad in his Hand
Here's the true story – why? When I was 18 I went to a little place up north near a small town called Glossop. I went with my then girlfriend – now wife, Angela. Sadly…
The Measure You Use
The Measure You Use
Verse 1
You hold the line so high and straight
You say it’s love, you say it’s fate
Unmoved
Verse 1
As the year slips quietly away,
we lift our eyes to brighter days,
another dawn, another start,
Different Versions of Same Song – Why?
Why You Sometimes Hear Multiple Versions of the Same Song This is one of the most important things to understand about my work. If you notice more than one version of the same song on…
No Bravado (Mallory)
Verse 1
He counted breath in thinning air,
Each step a measured prayer,
The mountain known, the risk declared,
God’s Coffee Machine
AI, Music, and the Measure of Creation AI-created music is often described as a shortcut — faster, cheaper, easier. You pay a subscription, type a few instructions, press a button, and a song appears. Compared…
The Nearly – Man
Verse 1
He nearly caught the morning train
Nearly said the words he meant
Nearly won, nearly stayed
Primroses Whisper
Blossom leans over hedgerows white,
Daffodils flare in yellow light,
Bluebells ring in woodland air,
Primroses whisper, winter’s not there.
Love and Best Wishes
Verse 1
They say, “From Dave,” and close the card
Ink runs dry, no wishing heart
No warmth spoken, nothing shared
Hearts that Dare to Sing – Anthem
Ahhh…
Listen…
Verse 1 (Male Lead – calm authority)
Before the noise, before the rush
Why Do I Create This Stuff?
Thank you for visiting Chordstream today. What is it, and who are we? Well, the simple answer is, it is not a “we”, more of a who. My name is Michael Forty, I’m 69 years…
Human Imagination
From a human point of view, it is understandable why many struggle to embrace artificial intelligence. It arrived suddenly — not as a gentle evolution, but as a presence that feels intrusive to some. Beneath…
Whispers in the Moonlight
[Verse]
In the quiet of the twilight,
When the city's lost its fight,
We sway softly, oh so gently,