{"id":51716,"date":"2026-03-17T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51716"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:36:16","slug":"cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/17\/cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Electric Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Electric Piano Solo]<br \/>\nWell&#8230; can you tell<br \/>\n(How many cells?)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nEvery heartbeat counts<br \/>\n(Every breath)<br \/>\nEvery thought amounts<br \/>\n(From birth to death)<br \/>\nTrillions in motion<br \/>\n(See the flow)<br \/>\nBuilding devotion<br \/>\n(To what we know)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nWell&#8230; can you tell<br \/>\n(How many cells?)<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Electric Piano Solo]<br \/>\n[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<br \/>\n[Drums Double-Time, Organ Glide]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThirty-seven billion<br \/>\n(Cells)<br \/>\nPer civilian<br \/>\n(Time tells)<br \/>\nLiving, breathing,<br \/>\n(Fire of life)<br \/>\nEvery tiny division<br \/>\n(Sharp as a knife)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSkin to sinew,<br \/>\n(Bone to blood)<br \/>\nEvery tissue,<br \/>\n(Moving like a flood)<br \/>\nMicroscopic armies<br \/>\n(Marching on)<br \/>\nHolding memories,<br \/>\n(Each one strong)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge 2 \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nDo you see them move?<br \/>\n(Cellular groove)<br \/>\nAll in rhythm,<br \/>\n(Alive, alive)<br \/>\nCount the cells<br \/>\n(37 billion drive)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThirty-seven billion<br \/>\n(Cells)<br \/>\nPer civilian<br \/>\n(Time tells)<br \/>\nLiving, breathing,<br \/>\n(Fire of life)<br \/>\nEvery tiny division<br \/>\n(Sharp as a knife)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Instrumental Jam]<br \/>\n[Electric Piano, Organ Glide, Synth Layers]<br \/>\n[Bass Solo]<br \/>\n[Drums, Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Saxophone Flourish]<br \/>\nWhispers of life<br \/>\n(Cells, cells\u2026)<br \/>\nEcho in the body<br \/>\n(37 billion\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nThe average adult human body contains approximately 30,000 to 37,200 billion cells. Recent comprehensive studies have refined these numbers based on gender and age: <\/p>\n<p>*    Adult Males: Roughly 36 trillion cells (based on a reference 70 kg male).<br \/>\n*    Adult Females: Roughly 28 trillion cells (based on a reference 60 kg female).<br \/>\n*    Children: Roughly 17 trillion cells (for an average 10-year-old).<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Billions\/\">Billions<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Electric Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental, Electric Piano Solo] Well&#8230; can you tell (How many cells?) [Verse 1] Every heartbeat counts (Every breath) Every thought amounts (From birth to death) Trillions in motion (See the flow) Building devotion (To what we know) [Bridge] Well&#8230; can you tell (How many cells?) [&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-51716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51716","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=51716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51717,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51716\/revisions\/51717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}