Right Down to the Bone

I started out wanting to write a “leg bone connected to the thigh bone” sort of a song, where I would use the actual scientific names of the bones. I was looking at the hip bones with that in mind, and then my brainstorm blew in a different direction.

I decided to pattern the lyrics after a style where the singer was waxing rhapsodic about how beautiful the object of his affection is, but have him be talking about her bones instead of all the usual stuff like skin, hair, eyes, lips, and so forth. I ran through a bunch of bits and pieces of derivative ideas that were sort of parodies, like “baby got sacrum,” “her clavicle brings all the docs to the ward,” and so on. While some of that was amusing, I wanted a more cohesive, original work.

And this song is what I ended up creating.

I wanted the accompanying music to have a romantic, sultry, “bedroom” sort of a feel to it… a Barry White vibe. The music for the chorus was very straightforward. I also tried some more complex types of cues, like “Sultry spoken word bridge over light instrumental,” and in this new version of Suno (v4), those details actually seemed to have an effect. You’ll hear the variations in styles that it ran with, like the call-and-response passages, and so forth.

I used a new site, Stablecog, to build the basis for the album cover graphics. I’ll likely go back and fiddle with this picture more, but I wanted to get the song out here.

I had an earlier version of the song, but it felt rushed, so I needed to go back and finesse it.

Here are the lyrics. I don’t usually include the metatags, but I really like how these ones worked out.