{"id":51871,"date":"2026-03-23T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=51871"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:28:27","slug":"flattened-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/23\/flattened-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro \u2013 Impact Residue]<br \/>\n[Low Sub Boom, Air Rush Cut to Silence]<br \/>\n[Flatline Tone \u2192 Muted Guitar Harmonic]<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s about<br \/>\n(To lay it out)<br \/>\nAnd&#8230;<br \/>\n(Flattened\u2026)<br \/>\n[Organ \u2013 single sustained note, heavily compressed]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nEverything pressed into the ground<br \/>\nEchoes lost without a sound<br \/>\nLines erased, no high, no low<br \/>\nNowhere left for us to go<\/p>\n<p>Whether we rose or whether we fell<br \/>\nAll collapsed into a shell<br \/>\nWhat was spinning, torn and tall<br \/>\nNow reduced to almost nothing at all<br \/>\n[Piano \u2013 sparse chords, Guitar \u2013 muted plucks, Bass \u2013 minimal]<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nPressure holds what time can\u2019t mend<br \/>\nBreaking points that cannot bend<br \/>\n[Organ swell, low Synth pad]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nFlattened<br \/>\n(Under the weight)<br \/>\nFlattened<br \/>\n(No rise, just fate)<br \/>\nWhether we tried or whether we stalled<br \/>\nEverything ends here\u2014flattened, all<br \/>\n[Full Band \u2013 slow, heavy hits, Drums half-time, Guitar sustained]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nDebris settles, silence spreads<br \/>\nLingering thoughts inside our heads<br \/>\nShadows stretch but never climb<br \/>\nFrozen fragments out of time<\/p>\n<p>Whether we weathered anything<br \/>\nOr lost the meaning it might bring<br \/>\nEvery question, every call<br \/>\nPressed into the final sprawl<br \/>\n[Guitar \u2013 distant echoes, Synth \u2013 low drone, Drums minimal]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nWhether we weathered the weather<br \/>\n(Or broke apart together)<br \/>\nWhether it mattered at all<br \/>\n(Now leveled, one and all)<br \/>\n[Instrumental \u2013 slow build, Organ glide, Guitar swell, Bass rising]<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Drums drop out]<br \/>\n[Piano \u2013 single repeating note]<br \/>\n[Bass \u2013 sub pulse fading]<br \/>\n[White noise wind \u2192 slowly dissipates]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Final]<br \/>\nFlattened<br \/>\n(Under the weight)<br \/>\nFlattened<br \/>\n(No rise, just fate)<br \/>\nWhether we stood or whether we crawled<br \/>\nEverything ends here\u2014flattened, all<br \/>\n[Full Band \u2013 final sustained chord, Guitar feedback slowly dying]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nFlattened\u2026<br \/>\nWhether\u2026<br \/>\nWeather\u2026<br \/>\n(The end)<br \/>\n[Flatline Tone returns \u2192 gradually fades]<br \/>\n[Silence]<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Whether\/\">Whether<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro \u2013 Impact Residue] [Low Sub Boom, Air Rush Cut to Silence] [Flatline Tone \u2192 Muted Guitar Harmonic] It&#8217;s about (To lay it out) And&#8230; (Flattened\u2026) [Organ \u2013 single sustained note, heavily compressed] [Verse 1] Everything pressed into the ground Echoes lost without a sound Lines [&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-51871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871","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=51871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51875,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871\/revisions\/51875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}