{"id":54515,"date":"2026-07-11T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=54515"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:36:08","slug":"turned-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/07\/11\/turned-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Turned Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Slow Piano Chords, Organ Swell, Echo Guitar, Deep Bass Pulse]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nWhat is now&#8230;<br \/>\n(Becomes then)<br \/>\nRound and round&#8230;<br \/>\n(Again and again)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Turned was)<br \/>\nBecause&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time waits for no one<br \/>\n(Know one)<br \/>\nThen&#8230;.<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s done)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nAnother second slips away<br \/>\nTurns tomorrow into yesterday<br \/>\nThe very moment, bright and new<br \/>\nSoon becomes a distant view<\/p>\n<p>What we hold begins to pass<br \/>\nPresent turns to former glass<br \/>\nTry to stop it if you can<br \/>\nTime ignores the best of plans<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nHere and now<br \/>\n(Watch it go)<br \/>\nSoon enough<br \/>\n(You will know)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThis is now<br \/>\n(Turned was)<br \/>\nEvery cause<br \/>\n(Because)<\/p>\n<p>What arrives<br \/>\n(Will depart)<br \/>\nWhat begins<br \/>\n(Is the start)<\/p>\n<p>Time waits for no one<br \/>\n(Know one)<br \/>\nThen&#8230;<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s done)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n[Piano Arpeggios, Organ Sustain, Driving Bass, Steady Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nPhotographs and memories<br \/>\nEcho former certainties<br \/>\nPlaces change and people too<br \/>\nWhat can stay the way it grew?<\/p>\n<p>All the laughter, all the tears<br \/>\nBlend together through the years<br \/>\nPresent tense becomes the past<br \/>\nNothing made can last and last<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nTick and tock<br \/>\n(Never cease)<br \/>\nPiece by piece<br \/>\n(Piece by piece)<\/p>\n<p>Watching now<br \/>\n(Become then)<br \/>\nThen becomes<br \/>\n(Once again)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nThis is&#8230;<br \/>\n(Turned was)<br \/>\nBecause&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time waits for no one<br \/>\n(Know one)<br \/>\nThen&#8230;<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s done)<\/p>\n<p>This is now&#8230;<br \/>\n(Wow! Turned was&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Fading Piano, Organ Drone, Soft Guitar Harmonics, Slow Bass Pulse Dissolving into Silence]<br \/>\nThen&#8230;<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s done&#8230;)<br \/>\nNow&#8230;<br \/>\n(Turned was&#8230;)<\/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] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Slow Piano Chords, Organ Swell, Echo Guitar, Deep Bass Pulse] [Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal] What is now&#8230; (Becomes then) Round and round&#8230; (Again and again) [Refrain] This is&#8230; (Turned was) Because&#8230; Time waits for no one (Know one) Then&#8230;. (It&#8217;s done) [Verse 1] [&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-54515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54515","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=54515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54516,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54515\/revisions\/54516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}