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Doug, actually I have already seen a demo of just that.. a random lyric generator. There have been tool to greatly help writing processes for decades now (think MasterWriter) as well as old fashioned dictionaries and thesauruses. The lyric writing demo I saw did a better job than probably 50% of the lyrics we get via CD's. You can customize it just like Xhail so the stories can be amazingly personal with little effort and I bet we could post 5 generated lyrics alongside 5 handwritten ones and it would be very tough to pick out which were which.

Look, computers and technology are going to replace so many processes we've lived with all our lives. Just as they currently do a lot of heavy lifting in mathematics, like Gene Sequencing, those advances replaced humans doing that work previously. It allows people who can master those tools to delve deeper into medical innovations and treatments and warning signs and older ways of doing things will be obsolete.

Great programmers can already do complete symphonic performances that replace real players so convincingly that only musical experts can tell the difference and the general consumer cannot and enjoys a cheaper end product/experience because of it. Now a composer doesn't have to hire a symphony to play his composition. Just like modern keyboard players can play bass, strings, piano, guitar or about anything else they want on their current recordings and at live gigs. Few lament those tech advances. All of this is no different.

Catch up to the world and master new advances and use your skills to create something amazing, or accept your obsolescence because the technology train is not slowing down, it is exploding forward.

In 20 years, we'll be composing directly from our brainwaves to finished music, meaning you imagine the song and it will be created and heard, if anyone likes what you imagine. It is simply a short cut to human creativity which machines can mimic but can rarely (at least in our lifetimes) surpass.

And you can have lots of fun creating stuff... what is wrong with that? It may be rough now, but in short order tools like Xhail will be as common as a keyboard is now and all people will have the ability to get what is in their imagination out into the real audible world in very short steps. And there will always be people who are better than anyone else at using those tools to do really cool things! Pixar has killed old school animators, but their movies are amazing!