{"id":56543,"date":"2026-11-03T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=56543"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:44:01","slug":"lonely-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/11\/03\/lonely-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nFaces in the shadows<br \/>\nEyes upon the stage<br \/>\nAppear to be watching<br \/>\nYet totally disengaged<\/p>\n<p>A thousand voices<br \/>\nBut nobody speaks<br \/>\n&#8230; still searching<br \/>\nFor something they can&#8217;t reach<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nStanding in a room<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s filled with sound<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s no people<br \/>\nNo, no one around<\/p>\n<p>You raise your voice<br \/>\nYou make your case<br \/>\nBut indifference<br \/>\nTakes its place<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you look out in the audience<br \/>\n(With indifference)<br \/>\nDoes it make a difference&#8230;<br \/>\n(When you scream out loud)<br \/>\n&#8230; to a lonely crowd<\/p>\n<p>Dwindling<br \/>\n(Due to hindering)<br \/>\nThe ability<br \/>\n(&#8230; to be free)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nNo crowd did gather<br \/>\nNo crowd to cheer<br \/>\nBut still are frightened<br \/>\nOf what they hear<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you look out in the audience<br \/>\n(With indifference)<br \/>\nDoes it make a difference&#8230;<br \/>\n(When you scream out loud)<br \/>\n&#8230; to a lonely crowd<\/p>\n<p>Are you aware&#8230;<br \/>\n(There&#8217;s no one there?)<\/p>\n<p>Forever dwindling<br \/>\n(Due to hindering)<br \/>\nTheir ability<br \/>\n(&#8230; to be free)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nAre you listening?<br \/>\n(Or just waiting?)<br \/>\nAre you thinking?<br \/>\n(Or debating?)<br \/>\nAre you speaking?<br \/>\n(Or retreating?)<br \/>\nAre you aware&#8230;<br \/>\n(There&#8217;s no one there?)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n(Alone in a crowd&#8230;)<br \/>\n(Screaming out loud&#8230;)<br \/>\n(Anybody listening?)<br \/>\n(Anybody now?)<\/p>\n<p>Are you aware&#8230;<br \/>\n(There&#8217;s no one there?)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you look out in the audience<br \/>\n(With indifference)<br \/>\nDoes it make a difference&#8230;<br \/>\n(When you scream out loud)<br \/>\n&#8230; to a lonely crowd<\/p>\n<p>Dwindling<br \/>\n(Due to hindering)<br \/>\nThe ability<br \/>\n(&#8230; to be free)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you look out in the audience<br \/>\n(With indifference)<br \/>\nDoes it make a difference&#8230;<br \/>\n(When you scream out loud)<br \/>\n&#8230; to a lonely crowd<\/p>\n<p>Still listening<br \/>\n(Still questioning)<br \/>\nThe ability<br \/>\n(&#8230; to be free)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nAre you aware&#8230;<br \/>\n(There&#8217;s no one there?)<\/p>\n<p>When you scream out loud&#8230;<br \/>\n(Who hears you now?)<\/p>\n<p>A lonely crowd&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>About the Song<br \/>\nOn multiple occasions, Trump delivered speeches to audiences consisting almost entirely of journalists. He has also been seen saluting and waving to people who weren&#8217;t even there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; gap: 15px; align-items: flex-start; flex-wrap: wrap;\">\n<figure style=\"flex: 1 1 300px; margin: 0;\">\n    <a href=\"\/albums\/Social-Truth\/Trump-No-Crowd.jpg\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/albums\/Social-Truth\/Trump-No-Crowd.jpg\" alt=\"Trump speaking to an apparently empty audience\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><figcaption style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 8px;\">Speaking to an audience that never showed up?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"flex: 1 1 300px; margin: 0;\">\n    <a href=\"\/albums\/Social-Truth\/Trump-Salutes-No-One.jpg\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/albums\/Social-Truth\/Trump-Salutes-No-One.jpg\" alt=\"Trump saluting toward an apparently empty space\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><figcaption style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 8px;\">Saluting someone who isn&#8217;t there?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Social-Truth\/\">Social Truth<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] Faces in the shadows Eyes upon the stage Appear to be watching Yet totally disengaged A thousand voices But nobody speaks &#8230; still searching For something they can&#8217;t reach [Verse 1] Standing in a room That&#8217;s filled with sound But there&#8217;s no people No, no one around You raise your voice You make your [&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":"","nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56543","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=56543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56550,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56543\/revisions\/56550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}