{"id":33974,"date":"2024-05-10T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=33974"},"modified":"2024-05-10T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:59:15","slug":"still-floating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/10\/still-floating\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Floating"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Still-Floating.mp3\"> Still-Floating.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Still-Floating.mp4\"> Still-Floating.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Going under<br \/>\nIs it any wonder<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThe state is still floating<br \/>\nThe water so high<br \/>\nOnly choice is boating<br \/>\nOr to fly<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe days go by<br \/>\nYet, we can&#8217;t get dry<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBrazil, still, under water<br \/>\nMore than a week and still the havoc<br \/>\nSend in god&#8217;s blotter<br \/>\nThe state of the state &#8212; a wreck<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Sub-bass, Berimbau, Atabaque Drum, Pandeiro]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nInundated, shouldn&#8217;t have waited<br \/>\nConfessing it&#8217;s distressing<br \/>\nInundated, isolated<br \/>\nMore storms on the way<br \/>\nWill we last another day<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe days go by<br \/>\nYet, we can&#8217;t get dry<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBrazil, still, under water<br \/>\nMore than a week and still the havoc<br \/>\nSend in god&#8217;s blotter<br \/>\nThe state of the state &#8212; a wreck<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Sub-bass, Berimbau, Atabaque Drum, Pandeiro]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nThe state is still floating<br \/>\nThe only access there, by air<br \/>\nRecovery after discovery<br \/>\nOf land (Do you understand?)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe days go by<br \/>\nYet, we can&#8217;t get dry<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBrazil, still, under water<br \/>\nMore than a week and still the havoc<br \/>\nSend in god&#8217;s blotter<br \/>\nThe state of the state &#8212; a wreck<\/p>\n<p>[End]<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nOn May 10, 2024, when a representative of Brazil&#8217;s Rio Grande do Sul was asked about &#8220;recovery&#8221; after weeks of historic flooding, she responded, &#8220;The state is still floating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Nowadays&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/The_Beatless_Sense_Mongers\/\">The Beatless Sense Mongers<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still-Floating.mp3 Still-Floating.mp4 Going under Is it any wonder [Verse 1] The state is still floating The water so high Only choice is boating Or to fly [Bridge] The days go by Yet, we can&#8217;t get dry [Chorus] Brazil, still, under water More than a week and still the havoc Send in god&#8217;s blotter The state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14,24],"tags":[163,546,563,3962],"class_list":["post-33974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-nowadays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33979,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974\/revisions\/33979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}