{"id":52571,"date":"2026-04-20T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52571"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:24:05","slug":"autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/20\/autobiography\/","title":{"rendered":"Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nHere we go<br \/>\n(Auto&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nPages turning in a borrowed name<br \/>\nEvery memory reshaped by flame<br \/>\nWhat I was and what I became<br \/>\nDon\u2019t always answer to the same<\/p>\n<p>Footnotes whisper what I left out<br \/>\nSilent chapters built on doubt<br \/>\nInk bleeds where the truth should be<br \/>\nIn the margins of identity<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nEvery line is a version of me<br \/>\nEdited by what I choose to see<br \/>\nSomewhere between fact and confession<br \/>\nLies the shape of my progression<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nAn autobiography<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<br \/>\nPersonal history<br \/>\n(Full of friction)<br \/>\nWritten in contradiction<br \/>\n(Marked by flawed precision)<br \/>\nTruth in slow collision<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nI recall what I want to recall<br \/>\nBuild my story around the fall<br \/>\nHeroes carved from broken stone<br \/>\nVillains made of flesh and bone<\/p>\n<p>Time rewrites what I believed<br \/>\nWhat I gave and what I received<br \/>\nEven silence tells a tale<br \/>\nWhen the details start to fail<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nEvery truth has a shadow line<br \/>\nRunning parallel through time<br \/>\nAnd what I swear I know for sure<br \/>\nChanges shape behind the door<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nAn autobiography<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<br \/>\nPersonal history<br \/>\n(Full of friction)<br \/>\nEdited in repetition<br \/>\n(Rewritten by recognition)<br \/>\nI am the flawed narration<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Spoken\/Whispered, Sparse Piano]<br \/>\nIf I am the author\u2026<br \/>\nwhy do I forget the plot?<br \/>\nAnd if this is my story\u2026<br \/>\nwhy does it feel like it\u2019s not?<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Full Instrumentation, Rising Intensity]<br \/>\nAn autobiography<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<br \/>\nPersonal history<br \/>\n(Full of friction)<br \/>\nEvery page a contradiction<br \/>\n(Every truth a new condition)<br \/>\nI exist in my description<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Instrumental Fade: Soft Piano, Tape Hiss, Distant Vocal Echo]<br \/>\nWho I was\u2026<br \/>\n(Just because)<br \/>\nwho I am\u2026<br \/>\n(where I&#8217;m goin&#8217;)<br \/>\nsomewhere in between the two\u2026<br \/>\n(Loving it with you)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Stranger-Than-Fiction\/\">Stranger Than Fiction<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] Here we go (Auto&#8230;) [Verse 1] Pages turning in a borrowed name Every memory reshaped by flame What I was and what I became Don\u2019t always answer to the same Footnotes whisper what I left out Silent chapters built on doubt Ink bleeds where 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-52571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52571","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=52571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52573,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52571\/revisions\/52573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}