{"id":52257,"date":"2026-04-05T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52257"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:16:21","slug":"basically-acidic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/05\/basically-acidic\/","title":{"rendered":"Basically Acidic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Distorted Bass Pulse, Organ Swell, Sharp Guitar Chops, Fast Hi-Hat Beat]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal, Echo Effect]<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s change the music<br \/>\n(Quick!)<br \/>\n&#8230; the music!<br \/>\n[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Stabs, Organ Burst, Drum Fill]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Steady Beat, Warm Bass, Tremolo Guitar, Atmospheric Synth]<br \/>\nEverything was balanced<br \/>\nEverything was clean<br \/>\nNeutral in the middle<br \/>\nOr so it always seemed<br \/>\nThen something tipped the beaker<br \/>\nSomething crossed the line<br \/>\nSomething in the mixture<br \/>\nChanged the whole design<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Snare Build, Rising Synth, Layered Vocals]<br \/>\nOne more drop<br \/>\nOne more spill<br \/>\nOne more bitter little pill<br \/>\nOne more shift<br \/>\nOne more taste<br \/>\nOne more thing we cannot waste<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(A strong base)<br \/>\nTurned acidic<br \/>\n(Pathetic)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(The pH changed)<br \/>\nTurned corrosive<br \/>\n(So deranged)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Driving Bass, Piano Chords, Low Synth, Guitar Echoes]<br \/>\nThe metal starts dissolving<br \/>\nThe paper burns away<br \/>\nThe warning signs are glowing<br \/>\nBut no one wants to say<br \/>\nThat every small reaction<br \/>\nCan build into a storm<br \/>\nAnd once the mix goes toxic<br \/>\nIt takes another form<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Building Tension, Cymbal Swells, Layered Harmony]<br \/>\nOne more spark<br \/>\nOne more flame<br \/>\nOne more shift we cannot tame<br \/>\nOne more flaw<br \/>\nOne more crack<br \/>\nOne more chance we won&#8217;t get back<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(A strong base)<br \/>\nTurned acidic<br \/>\n(Pathetic)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(The pH changed)<br \/>\nTurned corrosive<br \/>\n(So deranged)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Half-Time Beat, Dark Synth Drone, Echoed Organ]<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s change the music<br \/>\n[Minimal Piano, Rising Strings]<br \/>\nBefore the whole thing melts away<br \/>\nBefore the balance cannot stay<br \/>\nBefore the poison fills the room<br \/>\nBefore we choose a different doom<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo, Organ Swells, Heavy Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\n[Massive Chorus: Full Orchestra, Heavy Drums, Layered Choir, Synth Bass]<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(A strong base)<br \/>\nTurned acidic<br \/>\n(Pathetic)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(The pH changed)<br \/>\nTurned corrosive<br \/>\n(So deranged)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t lye<br \/>\n(Too late to hide)<br \/>\nTurned acidic<br \/>\n(From the inside)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Fading Piano, Organ Drone, Slow Bass Pulse]<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s change the music<br \/>\n(Quick!)<br \/>\n&#8230; the music!<br \/>\n[Fade Out]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Laboratory\/\">Laboratory<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Distorted Bass Pulse, Organ Swell, Sharp Guitar Chops, Fast Hi-Hat Beat] [Spoken Vocal, Echo Effect] Let&#8217;s change the music (Quick!) &#8230; the music! [Instrumental] [Guitar Stabs, Organ Burst, Drum Fill] [Verse 1] [Steady Beat, Warm Bass, Tremolo Guitar, Atmospheric Synth] Everything was balanced [&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-52257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52257","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=52257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52258,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52257\/revisions\/52258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}