It won't be the next Billboard No. 1, but Google's AI lyrics-to-music generator will likely inspire it.

Imagine describing a song you want to hear to Google, and Google comes up with exactly that song. That’s what Google’s MusicLM tool does. For a musician, it’s a dream come true. Not for making songs, but for finding ideas and inspiration, a kind of tireless companion that can keep coming with your incessant need for audio prompts. And now it’s public.

“The possibilities are endless, but I can immediately see an application for AI to get melodies out of my head and into the DAW. Often when I write a song, the melody will pop into my head first and I’ll hum it into a voice recorder app to capture it quickly, or if I have a bass or guitar nearby, I’ll pick it up and play the melody on the instrument,” veteran musician, songwriter, and Cleopatra Records founder Jason Myers told Lifewire via email.

This first public version of Google’s MusicLM is very basic, but it does its job surprisingly well. Type in a prompt describing what kind of song you want, and it takes a few seconds to generate two options. Each clip is short, but enough to get a good feel for the whole song. It weaves together multiple instruments, morphs and progresses like real songs.