🎼Prompt Response: Wrote Songs with AI Help🎵
What’s something you’ve done that you never thought you could?
By Day One
A New Song with an Old Message
Back on April 4th and 5th, I shared two posts that meant a lot to me. The first was called A Passover Prisoner Exchange where I didn’t tell you the name of the prisoner. And I really loved the image from that post because it spoke so much with no words. The next was called Resurrection Redemption Revealed where I told you the prisoner was Barabbas and shared that he was literally the first person in history to witness YahShua (Jesus) dying for his sins.
I love the story because he was likely a rabbi’s son, but I never thought of writing a poem or song about it. But recently, I got a musical AI creator that allows Christian lyrics.
Side Note…
Yes, I was able to put some of my Christian lyrics to music with Lyria by Gemini, but lately it makes me change things like “Lord” to “Love” or “Truth” or anything that won’t strike a caution in the program. Oddly, it didn’t do that at first, as you know from my post with the song Holy, Pure, and Undefiled. So I guess someone out there must have complained, and Google didn’t want the risk of a lawsuit. Still, it’s not like Christian writers are asking them to opine on Christian beliefs or to support or promote them in any way. In my case, I was just asking for a tune to go with lyrics I already created and believed myself.
Back on Track…
So anyway, I decided to try a new app called Donna AI Song & Music Maker from the Google Play Store. The first thing it offered was that it could write a song from just a picture. I thought, “Hmm, I wonder what it would make from that cool Barabbas picture. So I uploaded that and added a description (prompt) for the AI. It used most of the words in my prompt as lyrics plus added some of its own, and that made me decide to take what I’d written into the prompt and expand the idea into a full set of my own lyrics. Before I share my lyrics, though, here are the first ones written by Donna AI…
[Verse 1]
Looking at myself and deep into the shame,
I can’t explain the mercy, I can’t explain His name,
I was counting every failure like a sentence carved in stone,
Then You stepped into my darkness and You made my burden known,
And the chains that held me shattered when You called me as Your own.[Bridge]
I should have been the one nailed there, I should have paid the cost.
[Chorus]
You took my place, You took my pain, You broke the power of my sin,
You set me free from all my chains and gave me life again within,
I was lost, but now I’m standing where grace and hope begin,
My Savior bled, my soul was spared, and I will sing that love has won.[Verse 2]
It was me that should’ve hung on that cross, bearing all my blame,
I was the guilty one in silence, yet You carried all my shame,
When the crowd was shouting justice, You did not defend Yourself,
My life was traded for Your mercy, and I found forever wealth.[Bridge]
Jesus stayed silent, and my freedom rose instead.
[Chorus]
You took my place, You took my pain, You broke the power of my sin,
You set me free from all my chains and gave me life again within,
I was lost, but now I’m standing where grace and hope begin,
My Savior bled, my soul was spared, and I will sing that love has won.[Outro]
So I’ll walk in grateful wonder, forever changed by grace,
The cross reminds me I am free because You took my place.
I like most of what they added to my prompt, like the part about standing where grace and hope begin. You’ll hear some of the same lyrics in my final creation called “My Soul Exchanged” and sung in a soulful gospel style (yes, they offered this choice 😊). I created a video and used Adobe Express to add lyrics to it (though it missed some in areas where the AI singer was extra stylistic) then I uploaded it to YouTube. It’s shared below, and I’d love to hear some thoughts on it. I’ll also add the full lyrics after the video.
When the crowd shouted, “Give us Barabbas” and YahShua (Jesus) stayed silent, He made Barabbas the first witness to experience having his sins paid for with innocent blood.
I love the message in this, and the image Gemini’s Nano Banana made for the cover speaks volumes, so now I’ve uploaded my lyrics to Donna AI Song & Music Maker, and I really like the result.
Full Lyrics
“My Soul Exchanged” lyrics by Crystal A Murray ©2026 All Rights Reserved
Looking at myself and into me,
I don’t know why He chose to set me free.
Casting off the broken chains that bound me,
because He took my place on that tree.
My soul exchanged…
for a Righteous Son.
Exchanged…
for the holy one.
Arranged to swap…
This rabbi’s son.
An innocent reclaimed…
my soul with His blood.
It was me that should’ve hung on the cross.
I was the criminal; I should pay the cost.
But Jesus stayed silent when they shouted my name,
To release me instead of Him.
My soul exchanged…
for a Righteous Son.
Exchanged…
for the holy one.
Arranged to swap…
This rabbi’s son.
An innocent reclaimed…
my soul with His blood.
I didn’t ask Him,
but He offered anyway.
And I watched Jesus hang there…
for my sins that day.
My soul exchanged…
for a Righteous Son.
Exchanged…
for the holy one.
Arranged to swap…
This rabbi’s son.
An innocent reclaimed…
my soul with His blood.
[Tag]
An innocent reclaimed my soul…
with His holy blood.
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