{"id":52606,"date":"2026-04-21T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52606"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:27:15","slug":"heartless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/21\/heartless\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s insane<br \/>\n(He has no brain)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo \u2013 sharp bends, glitch delay, tension build]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nCold as static in a broken wire<br \/>\nNo spark left, no inner fire<br \/>\nEyes wide open, nothing there<br \/>\nEmpty pulse in vacant air<\/p>\n<p>Words fall flat, they hit the floor<br \/>\nMeaning lost forevermore<br \/>\nEvery signal misaligned<br \/>\nDisconnected state of mind<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nTry to reach but there&#8217;s no response<br \/>\nEvery chance is a lost-once chance<br \/>\nYou can scream but it won\u2019t impart<br \/>\nAnything to a missing heart<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOh, what a mess<br \/>\n(He&#8217;s heartless)<br \/>\nSee if you can get his heart<br \/>\n(&#8230; to start)<\/p>\n<p>A contradiction<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<br \/>\nRunning on without ignition<br \/>\nLost in failed transmission<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Synth Lead Duel with Guitar]<br \/>\n[Drums Double-Time, Organ Glide]<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s insane<br \/>\n(He has no brain)<\/p>\n<p>Circuit overload, but nothing feels<br \/>\n(Spinning gears with no real wheels)<br \/>\nAll reaction, no reflection<br \/>\n(Trapped inside disconnection)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nBuilt of logic, stripped of soul<br \/>\nHalf a system, missing whole<br \/>\nEvery answer pre-programmed<br \/>\nEvery feeling counterfeit and damned<\/p>\n<p>Touch the surface, cold as steel<br \/>\nNothing there to sense or feel<br \/>\nHuman shape, mechanical core<br \/>\nLess than zero, something more<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nTry to find what isn\u2019t there<br \/>\nTrace the void back to nowhere<br \/>\nEvery beat just echoes faint<br \/>\nLike a ghost that never was a saint<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOh, what a mess<br \/>\n(He&#8217;s heartless)<br \/>\nSee if you can get his heart<br \/>\n(&#8230; to start)<\/p>\n<p>A contradiction<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<br \/>\nPerfect flaw in composition<br \/>\nLiving without condition<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown \u2013 Minimal Beat, Pulsing Sub Bass, Glitch Effects]<br \/>\nNo pulse\u2026<br \/>\nNo spark\u2026<br \/>\nNo signal in the dark\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Full Arrangement, Heavy Drums, Layered Vocals]<br \/>\nOh, what a mess<br \/>\n(He&#8217;s heartless)<br \/>\nSee if you can get his heart<br \/>\n(&#8230; to start)<\/p>\n<p>A contradiction<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<br \/>\nEndless loop of malfunction<br \/>\nHuman without function<br \/>\n(Stranger than fiction)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Instrumental Fade: Distorted Guitar Harmonics, Fading Synth, Slowing Beat]<br \/>\nFlatline rhythm, fading art<br \/>\nNothing left\u2026 where was the heart?<\/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] [Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal] That&#8217;s insane (He has no brain) [Instrumental, Guitar Solo \u2013 sharp bends, glitch delay, tension build] [Verse 1] Cold as static in a broken wire No spark left, no inner fire Eyes wide open, nothing there Empty pulse in [&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-52606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606","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=52606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52626,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52606\/revisions\/52626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}