{"id":52283,"date":"2026-04-06T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52283"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:51:11","slug":"under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/06\/under-the-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Slow Bass Pulse, Echo Guitar, Organ Drone, Glassy Synth]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nMagnify<br \/>\n(And analyze)<br \/>\nMagnify<br \/>\n(What we deny)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nEvery crack in the system<br \/>\nEvery lie in the chain<br \/>\nEvery promise of progress<br \/>\nLeaving somebody in pain<br \/>\nEvery river polluted<br \/>\nEvery forest cut down<br \/>\nEvery tower of money<br \/>\nBuilt on sinking ground<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nCloser and closer<br \/>\nThe picture comes into view<br \/>\nHarder to hide it<br \/>\nWhen everybody knows the truth<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nTake a look&#8230;<br \/>\n(We&#8217;re under the microscope)<br \/>\nWe mistook&#8230;<br \/>\n(Dangling at the end of our rope)<br \/>\nTake a look&#8230;<br \/>\n(Every detail exposed)<br \/>\nWe mistook&#8230;<br \/>\n(Thinking nobody would know)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n[Driving Bass, Snare March, Organ Stabs]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nTiny fractures become fault lines<br \/>\nLittle failures become collapse<br \/>\nEvery bad decision spreading<br \/>\nLike a maze with no way back<br \/>\nThe symptoms all connect now<br \/>\nThe evidence is plain<br \/>\nA species studying itself<br \/>\nWhile repeating the same mistakes<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nUnder the microscope<br \/>\nYou can see the decay<br \/>\nThe greed in the bloodstream<br \/>\nThe fear on display<br \/>\nThe damage in motion<br \/>\nThe cost of delay<br \/>\nAnd all of the warnings<br \/>\nWe threw away<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Percussion, Low Drone, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nLook closer<br \/>\n(Under the microscope)<br \/>\nLook deeper<br \/>\n(At the things we broke)<br \/>\nLook closer<br \/>\n(Before we choke)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nTake a look&#8230;<br \/>\n(We&#8217;re under the microscope)<br \/>\nWe mistook&#8230;<br \/>\n(Dangling at the end of our rope)<br \/>\nTake a look&#8230;<br \/>\n(Every detail exposed)<br \/>\nWe mistook&#8230;<br \/>\n(Thinking nobody would know)<br \/>\nTake a look&#8230;<br \/>\n(The whole world can see)<br \/>\nWe mistook&#8230;<br \/>\n(What we were becoming)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Slow Piano, Fading Synth, Wind FX]<br \/>\nMagnify<br \/>\n(And analyze)<br \/>\nMagnify<br \/>\n(What we deny)<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: Slow Bass Pulse, Echo Guitar, Organ Drone, Glassy Synth] [Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal] Magnify (And analyze) Magnify (What we deny) [Verse 1] Every crack in the system Every lie in the chain Every promise of progress Leaving somebody in pain Every river polluted [&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-52283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52283","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=52283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52284,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52283\/revisions\/52284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}