As You Were (JP Asher x AI:Underground)

© JP Asher 2026 _____________ 🎗️ AI:UNDERGROUND CHARITY STREAM 🎗️ 24 hours. One cause. St Jude's Charity. Music is our language and hope is our message. We are rewriting the story together. Here is how you can join the movement and help us make a real impact: There are two ways to participate. Whether you've personally battled cancer or been around someone who has, we want to hear your story. Submit your track to "Suno Survivor Spotlight" and share your story with us. If you’re down to share, feel free to include an optional video or the backstory behind your music. Your voice belongs here. Let’s stand together. If you haven't battled cancer, but you'd like to still be a supporter and contribute to the cause, Join "AI BEATS Cancer Challenge": We want tracks that radiate resilience, hope, and survival. This is all about music that encourages and uplifts the spirits of others. Submit your tracks through the AIPlay's link found in the participating servers! 📺 Multiple streamers: we are going for a full 24-hour marathon! Participating servers alongside AI:Underground will be Midnight Tee, Distraction Radio, True Rock Alliance and AI Umbrella. Check out the participating servers to see the stream schedule and find out when your favourite hosts are live across different time zones. 📥 Submit your sound: participants are free to submit to BOTH submissions! Head over to the dedicated submission channels set up in participating servers. Submit your song for the slot you'd be available for [SUNO SURVIVOR SEGMENT] and to join the [AI BEATS CANCER CHALLENGE] Submit your track through AIPlay's link found in the servers! 🌐 Join the movement: For all the details on the charity stream, visit https://discord.gg/aiufm Let's make some noise for a cause that matters. 🔊❤️ _____________ For a long time I declared that I would never write a song about what happened to Dalia, but when I learned about the 24-hour Twitch stream being hosted next month by AI:Underground in aid of St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee, I decided that the time had come. The stream will be held from 12 noon CST on Friday, April 3, to 12 noon CST the next day. Information about the stream is above. I will be co-hosting the AI Umbrella segment of the event along with Foggy X from 9pm to midnight CST on the Friday night (3am to 6am on the Saturday morning for me in the UK). Dalia Asher was my wife and the mother of our two children. In late 2019, she started complaining about pains in her shoulder, and after being repeatedly turned away by our local clinic and told to take painkillers, she was finally given a biopsy at the hospital that revealed that she had stage-four cancer. It was at first unclear what kind, but it was later diagnosed as thymic adenocarcinoma with enteric differentiation, a cancer so rare that we were told it was the only case in the UK and one of only 50 in the world. The cancer had already spread to Dalia's shoulder and spine, and subsequently spread aggressively around her vital organs as well. Long story short, though doctors did their best to treat Dalia, there was nothing that could be done and within a few months she died in a hospice. She was 41 years old and I was a widow at 29 with two small children, one of them disabled. Covid restrictions of the time meant that I had to be alone in the room with her at the end, having only been allowed to bring in the children to say goodbye to their mother one at a time a few days earlier. Covid travel restrictions meant that Dalia's family did not see her between her diagnosis and her death. They and much of my own family attended her funeral over Zoom. A year later, my view of the world was skewered by a photograph that emerged showing the UK's then Prime Minister Boris Johnson and others blatantly breaking their own Covid rules in the garden at 10 Downing Street on the evening of May 15, 2020. I knew that at that moment I had been alone with Dalia in that hospice room and that she had died in the night a few hours later, early on May 16. Poor Dalia went without so much of the support she should have had at the end of her life, just so we could obey rules that the rule-setters themselves were not honouring. The sense of betrayal has never left me and I have never seen things the same way again. She was a sweet, kind, funny woman who brought a lot of light into my life during a very dark time, as well as a devoted mother to our children - in whose faces and smiles I see her every day. I recall the horrendous state in which Dalia sadly ended her life, but when I think of her, I do not remember her like that. I remember her cute laugh; her sense of humour; her pronunciation of our children's names. I remember her as she was. JP ✨ _____________ Skin and bone Skin and bone Skin and bone Skin and bone So incomplete in The bad dream You were like another Part of me Pain in your shoulder Rainin', behold ya Tears in the car park We felt so old Choked by law in this broken war The stage-four killer in your core Soul a husk, so cold to touch All too much but never enough No more day, mind melts away Your skin and bone and life betrayed But I remember you As you were I'll remember you always As you were... Skin and bone Skin and bone Skin and bone Skin and bone One child at a time In the room Family farewell Over Zoom Treason form Reason torn What the hell had We been living for? I said goodnight, then was on my own Two forty-five, no-one answered the phone... Soul a husk, so cold to touch All too much but never enough No more day, mind melts away Your skin and bone and life betrayed But I remember you As you were I'll remember you always As you were... One last dance together Then goodbye forever...! Soul a husk, so cold to touch All too much but never enough No more day, mind melts away Your skin and bone and life betrayed Soul a husk, so cold to touch All too much but never enough No more day, mind melts away Your skin and bone and life betrayed But I remember you always As you were...! I'll remember you always... As you were... As you were... As you were.