Spiral Staircase - Behind the Magic – AiLF

Documenting how music actually happens inside AiLFsWorld.

“Spiral Staircase” began the way many AiLF pieces do - with a feeling I couldn’t shake.

I had a painting, a sentence, and a mood.
I fed a handful of half-finished lyrics into AI, hit go, and the song spilled out in the middle of the night. No band. No studio. No polished pop machine.
Just me, a laptop, and whatever the tech felt like giving me in that moment.

Where the Idea Came From

“She walks on a spiral staircase that leads to nowhere and everywhere…”

That line appeared in my head before anything else - a woman climbing through grief, memory, hope, exhaustion. A staircase that rises and falls at the same time. A journey without a tidy destination.

The song became a reflection of the last few years of my life: messy, uncertain, beautiful in places, painful in others - always moving.

How It Became Music

I typed my raw, half-shaped lyrics into AI and let it sing them back to me.
The vocals wobble.
The mix is whatever happened at 3 a.m.
The glitches stayed because they felt honest.

This song wasn’t built for perfection.
It was built for truth.

And that’s what these tools really do:
they hand the microphone to people who were never meant to have one.
No gatekeepers.
No “come back when you’ve trained for 10 years.”
No £10k studio invoice.

Just human feeling → transformed into sound and colour.

Why This Song Exists

“Spiral Staircase” is about walking even when you’re unsure.
About carrying dreams that don’t fit the world you were handed.
About realising the path is the point, not the applause.

Take from it whatever you need.
Maybe it’s grief climbing upward.
Maybe it’s you quietly telling the old rules: “Not today.”
Whatever you hear - that’s the right answer.