One Wish — MCA One-Sheet

Pre-ProPre-Production SheetWork Tape Piano - Direction Locked

Sheet header

Key

TBD

BPM

TBD

Artist

Kris Bradley

Co-written with

Blue Foley & Stone Aielli

Status

Work Tape Piano - Direction Locked

Core Concept

"A healthy man has a thousand wishes. A sick man only has one."

Burnout didn't just slow Kris down — it took her cognitive faculties. Memory loss, skill regression, the inability to create, to flow, to access any of the things that made her who she was. The ambition that had driven everything suddenly had nowhere to go. From a million dreams down to one prayer: just to be okay. This song was written from inside that place, and it carries the weight of knowing what it feels like to lose yourself from the inside out.

Note: Story not yet in the stories doc — to be added in the final Stories Behind the Songs update.

Emotional Arc

Opens with the memory of the golden era — setting the world on fire, everything turning to gold. The pre-chorus shows the cost: white knuckle, hungry eyes, racing mind, damn near died getting to the finish line. The chorus is the crash landing — from a million dreams to just one thing, just three words: to be okay. The bridge holds a flicker of faith: he gave me problems because he thinks I'm strong enough to solve them. The song ends not in resolution but in reaching.

Thematic Language

From a million dreams to just one thing

Three words: to be okay

White knuckle ride with hungry eyes

Hit a wall I couldn't climb

A crooked tree keeps reaching for the light

He gave me problems because he thinks I'm strong enough

Sonic Palette

Overall Vibe

Intimate, sparse, emotionally raw. Piano and vocal at the center. This song earns its emotion through restraint.

Piano Direction

Stone's piano from the work tape — not the demo — is the emotional benchmark. That performance had something the demo didn't fully recapture. The goal is to find that feeling again. An older piano tone, lived-in and slightly weathered, is the target.

Strings

Light strings to support. Not swell, not cinematic — just a presence underneath that holds the emotion without announcing itself.

Demo Status

The work tape piano performance is the true reference. The demo direction is right but the work tape captured something closer to the emotional truth of the song.

Key Production Note

The Work Tape Piano

      Stone's piano performance on the day of the demo — the work tape, not the polished demo — is more emotional and more aligned with the vision than what ended up in the final demo. Reference that recording when setting up the session. The goal is to recapture that rawness and feeling with a slightly older, more weathered piano tone.

Easter Egg

Chorus — "Three words: to be okay"

At the end of the bridge in "I Wonder What It's Like," the line lands: "I wonder what it's like to be okay." Same three words. Two completely different places on the album, two completely different emotional contexts. One is a prayer. One is a question. Together they bookend the journey.

Easter Egg

Outro — Piano melody: "If I Only Had a Brain" (Wizard of Oz)

At the end of the song, the piano plays a subtle lick from "If I Only Had a Brain." This is a production Easter egg — not in the lyrics, in the arrangement. The song is about losing cognitive faculties during burnout. The reference is devastating, funny, and completely earned. Only the most attentive listeners will catch it. When they do, they'll never forget it.

Demo Prompt

Intimate, emotionally raw piano-driven ballad at 60 BPM with cinematic country atmosphere. Delicate, expressive grand piano -- rubato phrasing, dynamic touch, subtle imperfections that feel human and vulnerable. Warm, swelling string arrangements building gradually, enhancing emotional peaks without overpowering vocal. Sparse verses with space and breath; chorus opens with fuller harmonic support and sustained string pads. Ambient room reverb for depth and longing. Confessional, storytelling-driven melody with soft-to-powerful vocal dynamics. Understated acoustic textures (light pedal steel or atmospheric guitar swells) introduced subtly. Focus on tension and release, emotional restraint, cinematic lift. Organic, timeless, deeply human -- prioritizing storytelling, nuance, and emotional authenticity over polish.

References

Tori Amos

Billie Eilish

Music Video / Visualizer

Concept TBD

Open Questions

This is a piano-only track. No full band production. Keep it stripped.

Source or reference an older piano with the right weathered tone for session

Pull the work tape recording to use as emotional reference in session

String arrangement — how light is light? Live or programmed?

Music video or visualizer direction TBD

MarketingMarketing Plan11 buckets · how it reaches people

Positioning & release

Song Sheet - Disc Two / Album Track

Disc TwoAlbum TrackBurnoutFaith

📖 Story

Layer 3 — The Public Story Fan-facing

Fan hook. If you've ever wanted everything, and then wanted only one thing — this song is for you.

I used to want everything.

Success. Achievement. Recognition. The list was long, and it was always growing, and I was always slightly behind on it. I had a thousand wishes and the energy to chase all of them, and I was sure that was a strength.

Then my body shut down.

When you go through real burnout, the kind where the lights actually go out, your wish list gets short very fast. Suddenly you're not praying for the next milestone. You're praying to feel like a person again. You're praying to remember what you walked into the kitchen for. You're praying that the heaviness in your chest will lift before the end of the day.

There's an old saying I came across in the middle of all of it. A healthy person has a thousand wishes. A sick person only has one.

That sentence rearranged me.

I went from wanting everything to wanting one thing. And in some quiet, strange way, that was the moment I started to find God.

"A healthy person has a thousand wishes. A sick person only has one."

Layer 1 — Bullet Framework Internal anchors

Memory anchors, angles, and key lyric placement. To add.

Layer 2 — Performance Scripts Short · long · stage banter

Short, long, and stage-banter versions. To add.

🎵 Lyrics

Written by Kris Bradley, Blue Foley & Stone Aielli · © Boomfox Productions

VerseI set out
To set the world on fire
And I did
And it seemed Like everything I touched
Would Turn to gold
Till it didn'tPre ChorusA white knuckle ride
With hungry eyes
Ran through those big
Bright shining lights
Had a racing mind
Damn near died
Getting to that finish line

Now my ...ChorusOne Wish
Today
From a million dreams
To just one thing I chase
I hope
He hears me when I pray
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok

Hit a wall
I couldn't climb
When my body finally said
It's closing time
But I couldn't stop
Lord knows I tried
Like a crooked tree
Keeps reaching for the light

With my...ChorusOne Wish
Today
From a million dreams
To just one thing I chase
I hope
He hears me when I pray
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be okBridgeI wanted strength
He gave me problems
He must think
That I'm strong enough
to solve em

But my...ChorusOne Wish
Today
From a million dreams
To just one thing I chase
I hope
He hears me when I pray
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok

😤 Pain Points

Placeholder — to be filled.

🎣 Hooks & Opening Lines

Spiritual reckoning hooks: "from a million dreams to just one prayer" / "when you stop asking for success and just want to be okay" / "the prayer that has no ambition left in it"
Burnout middle-of-the-dark hooks: "POV: you burned out so hard that all your big dreams collapsed into one small prayer. Just to be okay."
Stitch opener: "when you've been chasing a million things and your only prayer is three words" → One Wish chorus
Faith / surrender hooks: "I wanted strength. He gave me problems. He must think I'm strong enough to solve them."
Cross-references: Anything But Jesus, Shaped By My Sin, spiritual transformation arc

🔥 Burnout Bucket - One Wish Angle

One Wish burnout angle: spiritual reckoning. When all your million dreams collapse into one prayer just to be okay. Not the external collapse (Fireproof) or the liberation (Ready to Lose) — this is the middle of the dark. The moment ambition breaks down into something quieter and more honest.

The lyric that anchors it: "From a million dreams to just one thing I chase / My one wish to God / Three words / To be ok"
Content angle: "There was a moment in my burnout where I stopped asking for success, for creativity, for any of the things I used to want. I just wanted to be okay. I wrote a song about that moment."
Stitch angle: high-achiever collapse content → "when you've been chasing a million things and your only prayer is three words" → One Wish chorus
POV angle: "POV: you burned out so hard that all your big dreams collapsed into one small prayer. Just to be okay."
The faith thread: "I wanted strength. He gave me problems. He must think that I'm strong enough to solve em." The bridge is the spiritual turn — surrendering to something bigger than ambition.
Cross-reference: Ties to Anything But Jesus, Shaped By My Sin, and the spiritual transformation arc of the album.

🎬 Content Formats & Video Ideas

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📝 Captions

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📅 Pre & Post Release Checklist

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💿 Sync & Licensing

Placeholder — to be filled.

📰 Press & Outreach

Placeholder — to be filled.

🪧 Billboard - One Per Song

Confirmed: every single in the campaign gets its own billboard. Not a phase-4 or cash-flow-permitting extra — a locked part of each release.
Billboard copy: To add — write this song's billboard line here.

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LyricsLyrics4:10

Written by Kris Bradley, Blue Foley & Stone Aielli · © Boomfox Productions

Verse

I set out
To set the world on fire
And I did
And it seemed Like everything I touched
Would Turn to gold
Till it didn't

Pre Chorus

A white knuckle ride
With hungry eyes
Ran through those big
Bright shining lights
Had a racing mind
Damn near died
Getting to that finish line

Now my ...

Chorus

One Wish
Today
From a million dreams
To just one thing I chase
I hope
He hears me when I pray
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok

Hit a wall
I couldn't climb
When my body finally said
It's closing time
But I couldn't stop
Lord knows I tried
Like a crooked tree
Keeps reaching for the light

With my...

Chorus

One Wish
Today
From a million dreams
To just one thing I chase
I hope
He hears me when I pray
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok

Bridge

I wanted strength
He gave me problems
He must think
That I'm strong enough
to solve em

But my...

Chorus

One Wish
Today
From a million dreams
To just one thing I chase
I hope
He hears me when I pray
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok
My one wish
To God
Three words
To be ok

AdminRegistration & RightsISRC · BMI · UPC · credits

Registration

ISRC

QTA6R2600016

Key

TBD

BPM

TBD

ISRC source

Boomfox prefix

UPC (album)

To be assigned

BMI work registration

In review

Publisher

Kris Bradley Music (BMI)
IPI 00821161184

Writer account (BMI)

KAMAI BRADLEY KRISTI LEAH K (550220798)

Writers

Kris Bradley, Blue Foley, Stone Aielli

Duration

4:10

Master format

44.1k/16

Time signature

4/4

Recording year

2026

Release status

Unreleased

Label

Boomfox Productions LLC

Producers

Kris Bradley, Eric Torres, Blue Foley

Mix

Eric Torres

Mastering

Sam Moses

Where the files live

Master WAV: MCA Masters - Sept 8 (Google Drive)
ISRC allocation: MCA ISRC Master List (Drive, Admin folder)
Credits: Album Credits sheet (Drive)
BMI: applications.bmi.com, account KAMAI BRADLEY KRISTI LEAH K (550220798)