{"id":51744,"date":"2026-03-18T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51744"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:11:05","slug":"still-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/18\/still-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro \u2013 Low Frequency Drone]<br \/>\n[Sub Bass Rumble, Distant Siren Synth, Slow Kick Pulse]<br \/>\n[Whispered Vocal]<br \/>\nTen to the ninth\u2026<br \/>\n(And counting\u2026)<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s one for you<br \/>\n(And two for me)<br \/>\n&#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230;<br \/>\n(Where we&#8217;re we?)<br \/>\n&#8230; oh yeah&#8230;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s one for you<br \/>\n(And two for me)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nStack it in shadows<br \/>\n(Hidden in code)<br \/>\nSilent accumulations<br \/>\n(Unseen load)<br \/>\nDigits like daggers<br \/>\n(Cut through the crowd)<br \/>\nNumbers get louder<br \/>\n(Voices not allowed)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t feel it<br \/>\n(But it\u2019s there)<br \/>\nIn the system<br \/>\n(In the air)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n1 with 9 zeros<br \/>\n(Nowhere near equal)<br \/>\nA billion is power<br \/>\n(Devours the people)<br \/>\nScale it again<br \/>\n(Out of control)<br \/>\nNumbers don\u2019t end<br \/>\n(They swallow the whole)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Distorted Guitar, Glitch Percussion, Organ Dissonance]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nFrom data to dollars<br \/>\n(From breath into debt)<br \/>\nQuantified lives<br \/>\n(In digital nets)<br \/>\nBillion decisions<br \/>\n(Made in a blink)<br \/>\nWhile billions of people<br \/>\n(Don\u2019t even get a drink)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>\nRaise a toast<br \/>\n(To the most)<br \/>\n[Percussion Drops Out, Sub Bass Pulse Only]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal \u2013 Cold, Measured]<br \/>\nTen to the ninth<br \/>\n(Then ten to the tenth\u2026)<br \/>\nPush it higher<br \/>\n(No consequence\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Build: Glitching Synth Arpeggios, Rising Noise]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Extended]<br \/>\n1 with 9 zeros<br \/>\n(Nowhere near equal)<br \/>\nA billion is power<br \/>\n(Devours the people)<br \/>\nMultiply, divide<br \/>\n(Split and control)<br \/>\nAdd to the top<br \/>\n(Subtract from the whole)<\/p>\n<p>[Collapse Section]<br \/>\n[Drums Half-Time, Bass Distorted]<br \/>\nCount it up\u2026<br \/>\n(Watch it fall\u2026)<br \/>\nToo big to fail\u2026<br \/>\n(Too big for all\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Dark Reprise]<br \/>\n1 with 9 zeros<br \/>\n(Endless cathedral)<br \/>\nA billion is silence<br \/>\n(Erase the people)<br \/>\nStack it again<br \/>\n(Until it breaks)<br \/>\nNumbers ascend<br \/>\n(That\u2019s what it takes)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Dissolution]<br \/>\n[Low Piano Notes, Sub Bass Fading, Static Noise]<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s one for you<br \/>\n(And two for me)<br \/>\n&#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230;<br \/>\n(Where we&#8217;re we?)<br \/>\n&#8230; oh yeah&#8230;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s one for you<br \/>\n(And two for me)<br \/>\nTen to the ninth\u2026<br \/>\n(Still counting\u2026)<br \/>\n[Flatline Tone, Silence]<\/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, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro \u2013 Low Frequency Drone] [Sub Bass Rumble, Distant Siren Synth, Slow Kick Pulse] [Whispered Vocal] Ten to the ninth\u2026 (And counting\u2026) There&#8217;s one for you (And two for me) &#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230; (Where we&#8217;re we?) &#8230; oh yeah&#8230; There&#8217;s one for you (And two for me) [&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-51744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51744","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=51744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51747,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51744\/revisions\/51747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}