{"id":51883,"date":"2026-03-23T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=51883"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:32:18","slug":"state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/23\/state-of-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Low Synth Drone, Slow Piano Notes, Wind \u2192 Water Drips \u2192 Silence]<br \/>\nSolid\u2026<br \/>\nLiquid\u2026<br \/>\nGas\u2026<br \/>\n(And everything between)<br \/>\n[Guitar harmonic swell, Bass sub tone]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nSpinning force becomes collapse<br \/>\nTwist the sky, then flatten maps<br \/>\nFrom the storm to aftermath<br \/>\nEvery stage along the path<\/p>\n<p>Whether we rise or whether we break<br \/>\nEvery form is bound to take<br \/>\nShape within a shifting frame<br \/>\nDifferent states, the same domain<br \/>\n[Piano minimal, Guitar soft delay, Drums barely present]<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nPressure builds, then dissipates<br \/>\nChaos turns, then calibrates<br \/>\n[Synth arpeggio rising, Organ swell]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nState of matter<br \/>\n(Change the form)<br \/>\nState of matter<br \/>\n(Calm to storm)<\/p>\n<p>Whether we stand or scatter apart<br \/>\nEvery phase reflects the heart<br \/>\n[Full Band \u2013 Guitar overdrive, Bass driving, Drums steady, Synth lead]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nFreefall into something still<br \/>\nFlattened by a greater will<br \/>\nUncertainty in every breath<br \/>\nMeasured truth defying death<\/p>\n<p>Fact is fact, yet slips away<br \/>\nUnder heat or force or sway<br \/>\nSaturation floods the line<br \/>\nBlurring what we thought defined<br \/>\n[Guitar melodic riff, Bass walking, Piano chords, Organ pad]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nWhether we weather the pressure together<br \/>\nOr drift through states that never stay tethered<br \/>\nSolid ground to vapor thin<br \/>\nWhere do we end, where begin?<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental \u2013 Extended Jam, Guitar\/Synth interplay, Drums build, Organ glide]<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Drums drop out, Bass pulse only]<br \/>\nOne\u2026 becomes\u2026 many\u2026<br \/>\nMany\u2026 become\u2026 none\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Climax]<br \/>\nState of matter<br \/>\n(Change the form)<br \/>\nState of matter<br \/>\n(Calm to storm)<\/p>\n<p>Whether we rise or dissolve in time<br \/>\nEvery phase a fragile line<br \/>\n[Full Band \u2013 maximum intensity, Guitar feedback, Synth soaring, Drums heavy]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nGas\u2026<br \/>\n(Pass)<br \/>\nLiquid\u2026<br \/>\n(We did)<br \/>\nSolid\u2026<br \/>\n(Yes, we did)<br \/>\nNow absence<br \/>\n(Silence\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Whether\u2026<br \/>\nWeather\u2026<br \/>\n(We&#8217;re in it together)<br \/>\n&#8230; forever and ever<br \/>\n[All instruments fade \u2192 single sustained tone \u2192 cut]<\/p>\n<p>[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] [Low Synth Drone, Slow Piano Notes, Wind \u2192 Water Drips \u2192 Silence] Solid\u2026 Liquid\u2026 Gas\u2026 (And everything between) [Guitar harmonic swell, Bass sub tone] [Verse 1] Spinning force becomes collapse Twist the sky, then flatten maps From the storm to aftermath Every stage along the [&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-51883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883","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=51883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51896,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51883\/revisions\/51896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}