{"id":54362,"date":"2026-06-29T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=54362"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:28:50","slug":"drawing-a-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/06\/29\/drawing-a-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing a Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Up-tempo pop-rock with bouncy piano, jangly guitars, handclaps, and humorous vocal interplay]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nWhere was I?<br \/>\n(You tell me)<br \/>\nLost my train<br \/>\n(Of memory)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nHad a thought<br \/>\n(It slipped away)<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;ll<br \/>\n(Return someday)<\/p>\n<p>Walked into<br \/>\n(Another room)<br \/>\nForgot the reason<br \/>\n(All too soon)<\/p>\n<p>Looking high<br \/>\n(Looking low)<br \/>\nWhere it went<br \/>\n(I don&#8217;t know)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nI&#8217;m drawing a blank<br \/>\n(&#8230;and who do I have to thank?)<br \/>\nNobody but &#8220;Me, myself, and I&#8221;<br \/>\n(&#8230;so, all I can do is try)<\/p>\n<p>Search my brain<br \/>\n(One more time)<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;ll<br \/>\n(Fall in line)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nAlmost had it<br \/>\n(There it goes!)<br \/>\nRight beneath<br \/>\n(My very nose)<\/p>\n<p>Close enough<br \/>\n(To almost see)<br \/>\nThen it waves<br \/>\n(Goodbye to me)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nMade a list<br \/>\n(Lost the page)<br \/>\nGuess that&#8217;s just<br \/>\n(The latest stage)<\/p>\n<p>Names and places<br \/>\n(Come and go)<br \/>\nSome come back<br \/>\n(Soft and slow)<\/p>\n<p>If I laugh<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m okay)<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;ll<br \/>\n(Return someday)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nMemory&#8217;s funny<br \/>\n(So they say)<br \/>\nPlaying hide<br \/>\n(And seek all day)<\/p>\n<p>No use getting<br \/>\n(Upset or blue)<br \/>\nSmile&#8230;<br \/>\n(And start anew)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Piano solo]<br \/>\n[Guitar fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nAlmost had it<br \/>\n(There it goes!)<br \/>\nFloating where<br \/>\n(Nobody knows)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep searching<br \/>\n(Through the fog)<br \/>\nOne more page<br \/>\n(In the log)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\nI&#8217;m drawing a blank<br \/>\n(&#8230;and who do I have to thank?)<br \/>\nNobody but &#8220;Me, myself, and I&#8221;<br \/>\n(&#8230;so, all I can do is try)<\/p>\n<p>One more chance<br \/>\n(One more day)<br \/>\nMaybe it&#8217;ll<br \/>\n(Find its way)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nHad a thought&#8230;<br \/>\n(There it went&#8230;)<br \/>\nOh well&#8230;<br \/>\n(Next attempt!)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Whats-in-a-Name\/\">What\u2019s in a Name?<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Arrangement: Up-tempo pop-rock with bouncy piano, jangly guitars, handclaps, and humorous vocal interplay] [Intro] Where was I? (You tell me) Lost my train (Of memory) [Verse 1] Had a thought (It slipped away) Maybe it&#8217;ll (Return someday) Walked into (Another room) Forgot the reason (All too soon) Looking high (Looking low) Where it went [&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-54362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54362","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=54362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54363,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54362\/revisions\/54363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}