{"id":55416,"date":"2026-09-10T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=55416"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:01:45","slug":"nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/09\/10\/nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Piano, Deep Sub-Bass Synth, Acoustic Guitar, Organ, Tribal Percussion, Electric Guitar, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nMaybe yes<br \/>\n(Maybe no)<br \/>\nPerhaps neither<br \/>\n(Or even either?)<\/p>\n<p>Round and round<br \/>\nThe arguments go<br \/>\nEveryone&#8217;s certain<br \/>\n(But do they know?)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a line in the middle<br \/>\n(Where nobody stands)<br \/>\nOne foot in reason<br \/>\n(One foot in the sands)<\/p>\n<p>You can balance forever<br \/>\n(And call it a stance)<br \/>\nBut sooner or later<br \/>\n(You still gotta dance)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nNo, not on the fence<br \/>\n(Nonsense)<br \/>\nConsider the scope<br \/>\n(Walking a tightrope)<br \/>\nWhen after all&#8230;<br \/>\n(You fall)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe bigger the picture<br \/>\nThe smaller the claim<br \/>\nThe more that you measure<br \/>\nThe harder the game<\/p>\n<p>One little number<br \/>\nCan tell you a lot<br \/>\nBut one little number<br \/>\n(Is all that you&#8217;ve got?)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nNo, not on the fence<br \/>\n(Nonsense)<br \/>\nConsider the scope<br \/>\n(Walking a tightrope)<br \/>\nWhen after all&#8230;<br \/>\n(You fall)<br \/>\n[Bridge]<\/p>\n<p>Left!<br \/>\n(Right!)<\/p>\n<p>Dark!<br \/>\n(Light!)<\/p>\n<p>Up!<br \/>\n(Down!)<\/p>\n<p>In!<br \/>\n(Out!)<\/p>\n<p>What are we talking about?<\/p>\n<p>Near!<br \/>\n(Far!)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear&#8230;<br \/>\n(Bizarre)<\/p>\n<p>[Break]<br \/>\nOn the fence?<br \/>\n(Circumstance stance)<\/p>\n<p>Tightrope?<br \/>\n(Nope.)<\/p>\n<p>Scope?<br \/>\n(Wide!)<\/p>\n<p>Decide.<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Quirky guitar]<br \/>\n[Staccato piano]<br \/>\n[Building rhythm]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nNo, not on the fence<br \/>\n(Nonsense)<br \/>\nConsider the scope<br \/>\n(Walking a tightrope)<br \/>\nWhen after all&#8230;<br \/>\n(You fall)<\/p>\n<p>Go look!<br \/>\n(Go learn!)<br \/>\nGo ask!<br \/>\n(Go turn!)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<\/p>\n<p>Maybe yes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe no&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re going to balance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Watch where you go!)<\/p>\n<p>No nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/I-Dunno\/\">I Dunno<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental Intro: Piano, Deep Sub-Bass Synth, Acoustic Guitar, Organ, Tribal Percussion, Electric Guitar, Drum Fills] [Intro] Maybe yes (Maybe no) Perhaps neither (Or even either?) Round and round The arguments go Everyone&#8217;s certain (But do they know?) [Verse 1] There&#8217;s a line in the middle (Where nobody stands) One foot in reason (One foot [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-bazaar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55416","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=55416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55417,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55416\/revisions\/55417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}