{"id":51723,"date":"2026-03-17T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51723"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:42:50","slug":"of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/17\/of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nChing, ching<br \/>\n(Ding. Ding.)<br \/>\nStill\u2026<br \/>\n(Counting until)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nPiles on the table<br \/>\n(Stack after stack)<br \/>\nNumbers climbing higher<br \/>\n(No turning back)<\/p>\n<p>Paper towers rising<br \/>\n(Through the blue)<br \/>\nMiles in the sky<br \/>\n(Just for you)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nGive \u2019er a try<br \/>\n(Stack \u2019em sky high)<br \/>\nOne billion bills<br \/>\n(Need stacking skills)<\/p>\n<p>Give \u2019er a shove<br \/>\n(Up above)<br \/>\nPaper to space<br \/>\n(In the human race)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Interlude]<br \/>\n[Synth Riff \u2014 climbing upward]<br \/>\n[Walking Bass Line]<br \/>\n[Piano Stabs]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSixty-seven miles<br \/>\n(Into the air)<br \/>\nA ladder of money<br \/>\n(Hanging up there)<\/p>\n<p>Past the clouds<br \/>\n(Past the blue)<br \/>\nAll built from paper<br \/>\n(Printed for you)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nGive \u2019er a try<br \/>\n(Stack \u2019em sky high)<br \/>\nOne billion bills<br \/>\n(Need stacking skills)<\/p>\n<p>Stack after stack<br \/>\n(No looking back)<br \/>\nMoney to heaven<br \/>\n(Sixty-seven)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<\/p>\n<p>Still\u2026<br \/>\n(Counting until)<\/p>\n<p>Million to billion<br \/>\n(Climb the hill)<br \/>\nPaper mountains<br \/>\n(Never still)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo \u2014 sharper, angular]<br \/>\n[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Jam \u2013 Extended]<br \/>\n[Organ Solo \u2014 rising scale patterns]<br \/>\n[Synth Solo \u2014 shimmering and bright]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo \u2014 echoing bends]<\/p>\n<p>[Driving Bass Groove]<br \/>\n[Snare March Intensifies]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nGive \u2019er a try<br \/>\n(Stack \u2019em sky high)<br \/>\nOne billion bills<br \/>\n(Need stacking skills)<\/p>\n<p>Higher and higher<br \/>\n(Into the blue)<br \/>\nMiles of money<br \/>\n(Just passing through)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Spoken Reflection]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Organ Pad]<\/p>\n<p>Still counting\u2026<br \/>\n(Stack after stack)<\/p>\n<p>One billion dollars\u2026<br \/>\n(And that\u2019s just the start)<\/p>\n<p>[Slow Bass Pulse]<\/p>\n<p>How high will it go\u2026<br \/>\n(Before it falls apart?)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Fade]<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nA stack of one billion $1 bills would reach 67.9 miles high, extending well into the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and technically reaching space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Billions\/\">Billions<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter] [Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal] Ching, ching (Ding. Ding.) Still\u2026 (Counting until) [Instrumental] [Guitar Solo] [Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March] [Verse 1] Piles on the table (Stack after stack) Numbers climbing [&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-51723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51723","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=51723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51734,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51723\/revisions\/51734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}