{"id":53893,"date":"2026-06-07T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53893"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:34:00","slug":"climbed-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/06\/07\/climbed-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbed Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental: Acoustic Guitar, Loose Bass Groove, Light Percussion, Harmonica]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nOpened it wide<br \/>\n(And climbed outside)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThe glass was just a boundary<br \/>\n(A picture in a frame)<br \/>\nBut something in the distance<br \/>\n(Would never look the same)<\/p>\n<p>So I moved a little closer<br \/>\n(Then closer still again)<br \/>\nUntil the line between inside<br \/>\n(Began to bend and thin)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nNot above<br \/>\n(Not below)<br \/>\nBut through the place<br \/>\n(You didn\u2019t know)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nI climbed out<br \/>\n(My window)<br \/>\nFound out about<br \/>\n(The downlow)<\/p>\n<p>What was hidden in the angles<br \/>\n(And the undertow)<br \/>\nI climbed out<br \/>\n(My window)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nI climbed down<br \/>\n(Down, down)<br \/>\nTo look around<\/p>\n<p>I climbed down<br \/>\n(Down, down, down)<br \/>\n&#8230; and found&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The world was not as still<br \/>\n(As it would sound)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe wind was not a whisper<br \/>\nIt was a moving tide<br \/>\nThe patterns in the streetlights<br \/>\n(Were shifting side to side)<\/p>\n<p>What looked like simple distance<br \/>\n(Was layers underneath)<br \/>\nAnd every step revealed<br \/>\n(A deeper kind of reach)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nNot a view<br \/>\n(Not a scan)<br \/>\nBut the texture<br \/>\n(Understand)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nI climbed out<br \/>\n(My window)<br \/>\nFound out about<br \/>\n(The downlow)<\/p>\n<p>What I thought was observation<br \/>\n(Turned into the flow)<br \/>\nI climbed out<br \/>\n(My window)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Harmonica Solo]<br \/>\n[Percussion Build]<br \/>\nThe world is not a painting<br \/>\nIt is something to pass through<br \/>\nAnd a fixed perspective<br \/>\nIs only partially true<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nI climbed down<br \/>\n(Down, down)<br \/>\nTo look around<\/p>\n<p>I climbed down<br \/>\n(Down, down, down)<br \/>\n&#8230; and found&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The edges weren\u2019t edges<br \/>\n(Just lines that wore down)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nI climbed out<br \/>\n(My window)<br \/>\nFound out about<br \/>\n(The downlow)<\/p>\n<p>What stays inside the frame<br \/>\n(Once you let go)<br \/>\nI climbed out<br \/>\n(My window)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Acoustic Guitar Fade]<br \/>\nWhat I saw from inside<br \/>\nWas never quite the same<br \/>\nAs what I found<br \/>\nWhen I stepped beyond the frame<\/p>\n<p>Climbed through&#8230;<br \/>\n(Coming, too?)<br \/>\n[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Out-Your-Window\/\">Out Your Window<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] [Instrumental: Acoustic Guitar, Loose Bass Groove, Light Percussion, Harmonica] [Spoken Vocal] Opened it wide (And climbed outside) [Verse 1] The glass was just a boundary (A picture in a frame) But something in the distance (Would never look the same) So I moved a little closer (Then closer still again) Until the line between [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893","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=53893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53894,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893\/revisions\/53894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}