{"id":52880,"date":"2026-04-30T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52880"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:07:58","slug":"rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/30\/rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail"},"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 \/>\nDid you go off the rails?<br \/>\n(Never fails)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Reverb Wash, Rising Synth Pad]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Mid-tempo Groove, Bass Guitar, Light Drums, Ambient Synth]<br \/>\nSteel lines hum beneath your feet<br \/>\nEvery promise sounds so sweet<br \/>\nSwitches thrown in dead of night<br \/>\nTruth derailed without a fight<\/p>\n<p>Signals flicker, red to green<br \/>\nBlurring what is heard and seen<br \/>\nTickets stamped but no control<br \/>\nDestination: pay the toll<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Build-Up, Snare Crescendo, Rising Strings, Distorted Guitar Layer]<br \/>\nYou can feel the pressure build<br \/>\nEvery gap the silence filled<br \/>\nWhispers riding every track<br \/>\nNo way forward, no way back<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Full Band, Driving Drums, Heavy Bass, Layered Vocals, Synth Stabs]<br \/>\nRail against the machine<br \/>\n(Or humans so obscene)<br \/>\nRail for freedom<br \/>\n(No such thing as free dumb)<br \/>\nRide the line between<br \/>\n(What is and what has been)<br \/>\nRail for reason<br \/>\n(Or lose all you believe in)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Reduced Instrumentation, Clean Guitar, Piano Motif, Soft Percussion]<br \/>\nEngines roaring through your mind<br \/>\nLeave the fragile truth behind<br \/>\nEvery carriage, every lie<br \/>\nStacked beneath a darkened sky<\/p>\n<p>Schedules written, never kept<br \/>\nDreams abandoned, secrets slept<br \/>\nCargo full of doubt and fear<br \/>\nStill the end is drawing near<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Increasing Intensity, Tom Fills, Synth Swells, Guitar Feedback]<br \/>\nHear the metal start to scream<br \/>\nNothing\u2019s ever what it seems<br \/>\nBrakes are failing, sparks ignite<br \/>\nRunning blind into the night<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Full Band, Expanded Harmony Vocals, Orchestral Synth Layer]<br \/>\nRail against the machine<br \/>\n(Or humans so obscene)<br \/>\nRail for freedom<br \/>\n(No such thing as free dumb)<br \/>\nCross the in-between<br \/>\n(Where you\u2019ve never been)<br \/>\nRail for meaning<br \/>\n(Or stop the world from leaning)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Breakdown, Sparse Piano, Distant Reverb Guitar, Ambient Drone]<br \/>\nOff the rails, we justify<br \/>\nEvery truth we let it die<br \/>\nEchoes ringing in the steel<br \/>\nTell me what is even real<\/p>\n<p>[Build-Up, Electronic Pulse, Rising Snare Roll, Distorted Bass]<br \/>\nIf the track begins to bend<br \/>\nDo you follow to the end?<br \/>\nOr jump clear before the fall<br \/>\nBefore nothing\u2019s left at all<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo, Organ Swells, Synth Arpeggios, Full Percussion Return]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\n[Maximum Intensity, Full Orchestra Synth, Double Kick Drums, Layered Vocals]<br \/>\nRail against the machine<br \/>\n(Or humans so obscene)<br \/>\nRail for freedom<br \/>\n(No such thing as free dumb)<br \/>\nBreak the unseen seam<br \/>\n(Tear apart the dream)<br \/>\nRail for something<br \/>\n(Or end up with nothing)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Stripped Down, Minimal Beat, Sub Bass Pulse, Fading Guitar Harmonics]<br \/>\nDid you go off the rails?<br \/>\n(Never fails\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Rail\/\">Rail<\/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] Did you go off the rails? (Never fails) [Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Reverb Wash, Rising Synth Pad] [Verse 1] [Mid-tempo Groove, Bass Guitar, Light Drums, Ambient Synth] Steel lines hum beneath your feet Every promise sounds so sweet Switches thrown [&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":[4226],"class_list":["post-52880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880","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=52880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52909,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52880\/revisions\/52909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}