{"id":54463,"date":"2026-07-07T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=54463"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:09:48","slug":"bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/07\/07\/bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bliss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<br \/>\n[brief ambient hush, low room tone, faint distant synth noise floor]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<br \/>\n[gradual layered entrance, warm harmonic bed, slow pulse build, restrained groove]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Soft Pad Wash, Reversed Piano Swells, Muted Guitar Harmonics, Subtle Organ Drone, Low Sub-Bass Pulse, Light Click Percussion]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Blissless)<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Bliss?)<br \/>\nNo! Ignorance<br \/>\n(Amiss)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, explosive guitar riff, thumping bass, percussion groove]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWe name the shape of drifting air<br \/>\nAnd swear we saw it standing there<br \/>\nA feeling caught but never held<br \/>\nA truth half-born but never spelled<\/p>\n<p>The mind leans hard on fragile ground<br \/>\nWhere certainty is never found<br \/>\nYet still we build what we believe<br \/>\nFrom echoes that we can&#8217;t retrieve<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nIs it calm or just delay?<br \/>\nA thought that won&#8217;t quite go away?<br \/>\nA silence dressed in borrowed light<br \/>\nThat fades before it feels quite right<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nSo what do we call it when it feels this light?<br \/>\n(When wrong feels wrong but it still feels right?)<br \/>\nA borrowed name for something wide<br \/>\n(We try to hold but slips aside)<\/p>\n<p>Is it bliss or just the spin<br \/>\n(Of everything we&#8217;re living in?)<br \/>\nWe name it fast so we can move along<br \/>\n(But the meaning feels half gone)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Bliss?)<br \/>\nNo! Ignorance<br \/>\n(Amiss)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break: Guitar Lead Motif, Organ Sustain, Rhythmic Piano Chords, Rising Synth Arpeggios, Deep Bass Pulse, Tight Drum Pattern]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nWe carve our truth yet don&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nWith trembling voice and half-formed plan<br \/>\nAn answer breaks before it&#8217;s whole<br \/>\nAs certainty dissolves the soul<\/p>\n<p>A language built to hold the frame<br \/>\nBut little ever stays the same<br \/>\nWe call it order, call it sense<br \/>\nBut meaning lives in consequence<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nMaybe bliss is just a pause<br \/>\nBetween effect and cause<br \/>\nA breath that never knows its name<br \/>\nBefore it slips back into flame<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nSo what do we call it when it feels this light?<br \/>\n(When wrong feels wrong but it still feels right?)<br \/>\nA fleeting state we can\u2019t define<br \/>\n(A boundary without a line)<\/p>\n<p>Is it bliss or just the spin<br \/>\n(Of everything we&#8217;re living in?)<br \/>\nWe name it fast so we can move along<br \/>\n(But the meaning is gone)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain \u2013 Outro Variation]<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Bliss?)<br \/>\nNo&#8230;<br \/>\nAmiss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Bliss?)<br \/>\nNo&#8230;<br \/>\nAmiss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Fading Organ Drone, Soft Guitar Harmonics, Slowing Sub Bass Pulse, Reverb-Drenched Piano, Ambient Synth Dissolve]<br \/>\nIgnorance (and arrogance)<br \/>\nA mess&#8230; (not bliss)<br \/>\nBlissless<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/This-Is\/\">This Is&#8230;.<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [brief ambient hush, low room tone, faint distant synth noise floor] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [gradual layered entrance, warm harmonic bed, slow pulse build, restrained groove] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Soft Pad Wash, Reversed Piano Swells, Muted Guitar Harmonics, Subtle Organ Drone, Low Sub-Bass Pulse, Light Click Percussion] [Minimal Beat, Sub [&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-54463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463","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=54463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54466,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions\/54466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}