{"id":34781,"date":"2024-05-31T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=34781"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:48:29","slug":"how-things-could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/31\/how-things-could-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How Things Could Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/How-Things-Could-Be.mp3\"> How-Things-Could-Be.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/How-Things-Could-Be.mp4\"> How-Things-Could-Be.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;re getting me all rowdy<br \/>\nThinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re getting me all rowdy<br \/>\nThinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be<br \/>\nI&#8217;m rowdy already<br \/>\nListen, and see<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nImagine an image<br \/>\nIn our age<br \/>\nWhere we behave<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo here?<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo hear?<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Saxophone, Vibraphone, Theremin]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThanks for getting all rowdy<br \/>\nThinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be<br \/>\nThe solution to devolution<br \/>\nIs&#8230; &#8220;we&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nImagine an image<br \/>\nIn our age<br \/>\nWhere we behave<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo here?<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo hear?<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Hammond B3 Organ, Bass, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nRowdy road heavy and steady<br \/>\nThinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be<br \/>\nMove me with love<br \/>\nTo&#8230; &#8220;we&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nImagine an image<br \/>\nIn our age<br \/>\nWhere we behave<br \/>\nAre you tellin&#8217; me this is alright?<br \/>\nThen, I&#8217;m callin&#8217; back to you&#8230; goodnight.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo here?<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo hear?<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Hammond B3 Organ, Bass, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Break]<\/p>\n<p>Are you tellin&#8217; me this is alright?<br \/>\nThen, I&#8217;m callin&#8217; back to you&#8230; goodnight.<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nRowdy road heavy and steady<br \/>\nThinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be<br \/>\nMove me with love<br \/>\nTo&#8230; &#8220;we&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo here?<br \/>\nToo far bizarre?<br \/>\nOr too near<br \/>\nTo hear?<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nImagine an image<br \/>\nIn our age<br \/>\nWhere we behave<\/p>\n<p>Are you tellin&#8217; me this is alright?<br \/>\nThen, I&#8217;m callin&#8217; back to you&#8230; goodnight.<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nIn 2023, we wrote about having crossed <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Tipping-Points.html\">tipping points<\/a> in the paper, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/How-Long-Is-Ever.html\">Climate Change: How Long Is &#8216;Ever&#8217;?<\/a>&#8220;. When we wrote the Tunnel Under Thesis in 1995, we forecast crossing these tipping points would not happen for centuries. We underestimated Man&#8217;s ignorance and arrogance. Fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have continued to set record highs. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in toppled tipping points, <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/notes\/feedback-loops.html\">feedback loops<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Domino-Effect-Tipping-Points-Toppled.html\">The Domino Effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Incoming&#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>How-Things-Could-Be.mp3 How-Things-Could-Be.mp4 You&#8217;re getting me all rowdy Thinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be [Verse 1] You&#8217;re getting me all rowdy Thinkin&#8217; &#8217;bout how things could be I&#8217;m rowdy already Listen, and see [Bridge] Imagine an image In our age Where we behave [Chorus] Too far bizarre? Or too near To here? Too far bizarre? Or [&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":[3,4,9,14,3955,24],"tags":[163,3973,546,563],"class_list":["post-34781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-bizarre-bazaar","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-climate-change","tag-incoming","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781","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=34781"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34821,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781\/revisions\/34821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}