{"id":52275,"date":"2026-04-06T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52275"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:54:00","slug":"observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/06\/observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Clean Guitar Arpeggios, Distant Thunder FX, Slow Organ Pad]<br \/>\n[Soft Wind Ambience, Light Piano Notes]<br \/>\nLook outside<br \/>\n(Far and wide)<br \/>\nCan you tell me&#8230;<br \/>\n(What do you see?)<br \/>\nBegin&#8230;<br \/>\n(Look again)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the eve&#8230;<br \/>\n(Best believe)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Bass Pulse, Cymbal Wash, Echo Guitar]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThe sky burns orange in the middle of the day<br \/>\nThe rain comes harder than it used to anyway<br \/>\nThe rivers don&#8217;t know where to go&#8230; overflow<br \/>\nThe coastlines smear then disappear<br \/>\nThe sign is beware &#8211; everywhere<br \/>\nBut some still hide in fear<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Organ Swell, Slow Tom Beat, Guitar Harmonics]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe forests turn to ash<br \/>\nThe oceans climb the shore<br \/>\nThe storms move slower now<br \/>\nBut somehow hit much more<br \/>\nThe ice gives way upstream<br \/>\nThe currents start to bend<br \/>\nAnd every little warning<br \/>\nBecomes a larger end<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nOne thing tips another<br \/>\nThen another falls behind<br \/>\nA chain reaction growing<br \/>\nToo massive to unwind<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(Look out your window)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(Before making a widow)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(Investigation)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(What are you seeing?)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(The signs are screaming)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(No more debating)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n[Driving Bass, Marching Snare, Layered Synth]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nNo doubt the heat feeds drought<br \/>\nThe drought feeds fire ever higher<br \/>\nI could cry&#8230; the fire fills the sky<br \/>\nThe smoke traps more heat<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nowhere to retreat<br \/>\nPushing temperatures to dire<br \/>\nWarn of oceans that warm<br \/>\nI could cry&#8230; the storms intensify<br \/>\nOn inspection the melting ice removes reflection<br \/>\nAnd the sunlight multiplies<br \/>\nAs the species die<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nIt never moved in straight lines<br \/>\nIt never stopped to wait<br \/>\nThe systems fed each other<br \/>\nAnd accelerated fate<br \/>\nWe called it years ago<br \/>\nBefore the damage spread<br \/>\nNow the proof surrounds us<br \/>\nIn every storm we dread<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Bass Drone, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nJust look out your window<br \/>\n(Observation)<br \/>\nJust look out your window<br \/>\n(Investigation)<br \/>\nJust look out your window<br \/>\n(Before making a widow)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(Look out your window)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(Before making a widow)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(Investigation)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(The chain reaction)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(The acceleration)<br \/>\nObservation<br \/>\n(No imagination)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Slow Piano, Fading Organ, Rain FX]<br \/>\nLook outside<br \/>\n(What do you see?)<br \/>\nLook again<br \/>\n(And believe)<br \/>\n[Fade Out]<\/p>\n<p>About the Song<br \/>\nThis song is about the growing visibility of climate change and the domino effect of feedback loops. Heat drives drought, drought drives fire, fire increases atmospheric carbon, and the cycle intensifies. What once seemed theoretical is now obvious to ordinary people simply by observing the world around them. As Sidd said: \u201cJust look out your window.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Call to Citizen Climate Scientists:<a href=\"\/global_warming\/Climate-Change-Advanced.html\"> Anthropogenic Global Warming<\/a><\/h3>\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: Clean Guitar Arpeggios, Distant Thunder FX, Slow Organ Pad] [Soft Wind Ambience, Light Piano Notes] Look outside (Far and wide) Can you tell me&#8230; (What do you see?) Begin&#8230; (Look again) It&#8217;s the eve&#8230; (Best believe) [Instrumental] [Bass Pulse, Cymbal Wash, Echo Guitar] [&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-52275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52275","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=52275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52278,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52275\/revisions\/52278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}