{"id":50677,"date":"2026-02-02T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50677"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:36:13","slug":"headwind-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/02\/02\/headwind-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Headwind Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nSome things change\u2026<br \/>\n(Without a warning)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nMaps written of the sky<br \/>\n(Unwind of wind&#8230; no flow to go)<br \/>\nAncient highways bending (ending)<br \/>\nMaligning&#8230;<br \/>\n(Compass misaligning)<br \/>\nCurrents once so faithful<br \/>\n(No longer current at all)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nPressure lines are shifting<br \/>\n(Tilting unseen)<br \/>\nMagnetic memory drifting<br \/>\n(Between what was and what has been)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWhen the headwinds rise<br \/>\n(We pay the price)<br \/>\nEvery mile longer<br \/>\n(Makes the fragile weaker)<br \/>\nWings against the weather<br \/>\n(Torn under pressure)<br \/>\nRoutes unravel slow<br \/>\n(Where do we go?)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nJet stream fractures wide<br \/>\n(The scene far from a dream)<br \/>\nImpacting wind and tide<br \/>\n(A river turning sideways)<br \/>\nStorm fronts multiply<br \/>\n(Chaos in the skyways)<br \/>\nSignals out of season<br \/>\n(Nests left without reason)<br \/>\nMismatched bloom and hunger<br \/>\n(Shorter summers, longer winters)<br \/>\nNo longer stronger<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Low Drone, Distant Thunder, Heartbeat Kick]<br \/>\nAtmospheric fracture<br \/>\n(Systemic capture)<br \/>\n[Build: Organ Swell, Pulsing Bass]<br \/>\nCirculation falters<br \/>\n(Climate alters)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Expanded]<br \/>\nWhen the headwinds rise<br \/>\n(We pay the price)<br \/>\nEvery mile longer<br \/>\n(For the fragile&#8230; even bleaker)<br \/>\nCurrents once aligned<br \/>\n(Now misaligned)<br \/>\nWhat carried us before<br \/>\n(Doesn\u2019t anymore)<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown \u2013 Spoken Over Minimal Beat]<br \/>\nJet stream bending<br \/>\n(Resources ending)<br \/>\nTiming lost<br \/>\n(At what cost?)<\/p>\n<p>Thermal columns fading<br \/>\n(Migrations fraying)<br \/>\nEnergy debt climbing<br \/>\n(Out of rhythm, out of timing)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Bigger, Layered Harmonies]<br \/>\nWhen the headwinds rise<br \/>\n(We recognize)<br \/>\nThe cost of fire<br \/>\n(We fed desire)<br \/>\nRoutes undone<br \/>\n(Under the sun)<br \/>\nWe feel the strain<br \/>\n(Of altered rain)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nMaps were written in the sky\u2026<br \/>\n(We rewrote them)<br \/>\nLine by line<br \/>\n(&#8220;Mine by &#8220;mine&#8221;)<br \/>\nUnwind time<br \/>\n(Against the wind)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/North-Flew-South\/\">North Flew South<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] Some things change\u2026 (Without a warning) [Verse 1] Maps written of the sky (Unwind of wind&#8230; no flow to go) Ancient highways bending (ending) Maligning&#8230; (Compass misaligning) Currents once so faithful (No longer current at all) [Pre-Chorus] Pressure lines are shifting (Tilting unseen) Magnetic memory drifting (Between what was and what has been) [Chorus] [&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":[3,9,14],"tags":[163,4204],"class_list":["post-50677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-climate-change","tag-north-flew-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50688,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50677\/revisions\/50688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}