{"id":51750,"date":"2026-03-18T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51750"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:18:28","slug":"leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/18\/leftovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Electric Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro \u2013 Sparse \/ Uneasy]<br \/>\n[Low Electric Piano Notes, Sub Bass Pulse, Distant Metallic Hits]<br \/>\n[Whispered Vocal]<br \/>\nChoo&#8230; choo&#8230;.<br \/>\n(There goes the gravy train)<br \/>\nWould ya look at what remains\u2026<br \/>\n(Leftovers\u2026)<br \/>\nAfter everything\u2019s claimed\u2026<br \/>\n(Leftovers\u2026)<br \/>\nDiscover<br \/>\n(The gravy stains)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nScraps on the table<br \/>\n(After the feast)<br \/>\nNumbers unstable<br \/>\n(At least\u2026 at least\u2026)<br \/>\nPlenty above<br \/>\n(Nothing below)<br \/>\nWhere does it go?<br \/>\n(We already know)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nOverflow towers<br \/>\n(Empty hands)<br \/>\nCounted in powers<br \/>\n(Shifted demands)<br \/>\nDigits keep climbing<br \/>\n(Lives stay the same)<br \/>\nWinners keep winning<br \/>\n(That\u2019s the game)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t divide it<br \/>\n(Without the loss)<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s left behind<br \/>\n(Pays the cost)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nLeftovers\u2026<br \/>\n(That\u2019s what we got)<br \/>\nAfter the counting<br \/>\n(That\u2019s a lot?)<br \/>\nScrape the remains<br \/>\n(From the pot)<br \/>\nAfter the billions<br \/>\n(Leftovers\u2026 that\u2019s a lot\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Distorted Guitar Swells, Glitch Percussion, Organ Dissonance]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Percussion Drops Out, Sub Bass Deepens]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal \u2013 cold, deliberate]<br \/>\nCould be much, much worse\u2026<br \/>\n(Still getting worse\u2026)<br \/>\nCount what is left\u2026<br \/>\n(After the first\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Build: Glitching Synth Arpeggio Rising, Noise Layering]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Expanded]<br \/>\nLeftovers\u2026<br \/>\n(That\u2019s what we got)<br \/>\nAfter the counting<br \/>\n(That\u2019s a lot?)<br \/>\nTake from the whole<br \/>\n(Add to the top)<br \/>\nWhat trickles down<br \/>\n(Leftovers don\u2019t stop\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Collapse Section]<br \/>\n[Half-Time Drums, Bass Distortion, Organ Drones]<br \/>\nToo big to measure<br \/>\n(Too small to share)<br \/>\nAll of the numbers<br \/>\n(Vanish in air)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Dark Reprise]<br \/>\nLeftovers\u2026<br \/>\n(After the plot)<br \/>\nAll that remains<br \/>\n(That\u2019s a lot\u2026)<br \/>\nCount it again<br \/>\n(Take another shot)<br \/>\nAfter the billions\u2026<br \/>\n(Leftovers\u2026 that\u2019s all we got\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Dissolution]<br \/>\n[Low Piano, Sub Bass Fading, Static Crackle]<br \/>\nWould ya look at what remains\u2026<br \/>\n(Leftovers\u2026)<br \/>\n&#8230; and gravy stains<br \/>\n[Flat tone fades to 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, Electric Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro \u2013 Sparse \/ Uneasy] [Low Electric Piano Notes, Sub Bass Pulse, Distant Metallic Hits] [Whispered Vocal] Choo&#8230; choo&#8230;. (There goes the gravy train) Would ya look at what remains\u2026 (Leftovers\u2026) After everything\u2019s claimed\u2026 (Leftovers\u2026) Discover (The gravy stains) [Verse 1] Scraps on the table (After [&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-51750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51750","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=51750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51755,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51750\/revisions\/51755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}