{"id":52922,"date":"2026-05-01T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52922"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:59:41","slug":"against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/01\/against\/","title":{"rendered":"Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Low Drone Synth, Distant Industrial Noise, Slow Percussion Build, Sub Bass Pulse]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal, Slight Distortion]<br \/>\nWhat are you pushing against\u2026 and what\u2019s pushing back?<br \/>\n(Is there anything we lack?)<br \/>\n[Static crackle, rising tension]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Mid-Tempo Groove, Heavy Bass, Clean Electric Guitar, Minimal Drums]<br \/>\nSigns are posted but they bend<br \/>\nTruth dissolves at every end<br \/>\nWords get thinner in the air<br \/>\nNo one\u2019s really holding there<\/p>\n<p>Systems hum without a face<br \/>\nSpinning faster out of place<br \/>\nEvery answer multiplies<br \/>\nWhile the question quietly dies<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Building Snare, Rising Synth Layers, Distorted Guitar Swells]<br \/>\nYou can feel it in your chest<br \/>\nSomething never comes to rest<br \/>\nPressure forming in the wire<br \/>\nLike a signal catching fire<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Full Band, Driving Rhythm, Layered Vocals, Aggressive Energy]<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(Inequality)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(New normality)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(The severity)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(Failed humanity)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Reduced Instrumentation, Bass and Piano Focus, Atmospheric Pads]<br \/>\nPromises with empty weight<br \/>\nShift and mutate, change their state<br \/>\nNothing holds its shape for long<br \/>\nRight becomes another wrong<\/p>\n<p>Faces fade behind the screen<br \/>\nLouder now than they have been<br \/>\nBut the meaning slips away<br \/>\nEvery time you try to stay<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Intensity Rising, Percussion Accents, Synth Tension Build]<br \/>\nEvery step you think is clear<br \/>\nEchoes louder when you\u2019re near<br \/>\nLines are drawn then redefined<br \/>\nLeft behind what you designed<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Full Impact, Distorted Guitars, Strong Drum Backbeat, Anthem Layer]<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(Inequality)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(New normality)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(The severity)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(Failed humanity)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Breakdown, Ambient Noise, Reversed Guitar, Sparse Piano Notes]<br \/>\nIf you break it, what remains?<br \/>\nMore of silence, more of chains<br \/>\nIf you fix it, who decides<br \/>\nWhat survives and what divides?<\/p>\n<p>[Build-Up, Rising Noise, Drum Crescendo, Feedback Swells]<br \/>\nNothing settles, nothing sleeps<br \/>\nEverything you question keeps<br \/>\nTurning, burning, coming back<br \/>\nOn the same unending track<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\n[Maximum Energy, Full Instrumentation, Choir-Like Synth Layers, Double Kick Drums]<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(Inequality)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(New normality)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(The severity)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(Failed humanity)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(The machinery)<br \/>\nRail against<br \/>\n(What\u2019s inside of me)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Slow Fade, Minimal Synth, Distant Reverb Vocal Fragment]<br \/>\nAgainst\u2026<br \/>\n(The subservient)<br \/>\nNonsensed<br \/>\n(against\u2026)<br \/>\n[Sub bass fades into silence]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Rail\/\">Rail<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] [Low Drone Synth, Distant Industrial Noise, Slow Percussion Build, Sub Bass Pulse] [Spoken Vocal, Slight Distortion] What are you pushing against\u2026 and what\u2019s pushing back? (Is there anything we lack?) [Static crackle, rising tension] [Verse 1] [Mid-Tempo Groove, Heavy Bass, Clean Electric Guitar, Minimal Drums] Signs are posted but they bend Truth dissolves at [&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-52922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52922","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=52922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52923,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52922\/revisions\/52923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}