{"id":53038,"date":"2026-05-05T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53038"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:01:47","slug":"time-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/05\/time-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Soft Piano Arpeggio, Ambient Synth Pad, Sub Bass Pulse]<br \/>\n[Ticking Clock FX, Light Hi-Hat Pattern]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal, calm, reflective]<br \/>\nIt feels endless\u2026<br \/>\nUntil it doesn\u2019t\u2026<br \/>\n(What is&#8230; wasn&#8217;t)<\/p>\n<p>[Build]<br \/>\n[Snare Clicks, Rising Synth Filter, Guitar Swells]<br \/>\nScroll it back\u2026<br \/>\nWatch it pass\u2026<br \/>\n(Into the past)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Full Band, Steady Groove, Wide Pads]<br \/>\nDid you see the sign<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t reach infinity<br \/>\n(Due to mortality)<br \/>\nEvery moment fades<br \/>\n(As it\u2019s defined)<br \/>\nJust a passing line<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Drop to Groove: Clean Guitar, Tight Bass, Minimal Drums]<br \/>\nMarked in posts and memories<br \/>\nFragments of identity<br \/>\nEvery second captured there<br \/>\nStill dissolves into thin air<\/p>\n<p>We record to make it last<br \/>\nBut the present slips to past<br \/>\nEvery \u201cnow\u201d becomes a trace<br \/>\nIn a never-ending race<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Build: Snare Rolls, Layered Vocals, Rising Synth]<br \/>\nYou can scroll but never stay<br \/>\nEvery frame just fades away<br \/>\nWhat you hold begins to blur<br \/>\nAs the next replaces \u201cwere\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Fuller, Added Harmonies, Cymbal Washes]<br \/>\nDid you see the sign<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t reach infinity<br \/>\n(Due to mortality)<br \/>\nEvery line you write<br \/>\n(Will unwind)<br \/>\nJust a passing sign<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Organ Lead, Echoed Guitar, Syncopated Drums]<br \/>\n[Synth Pulses Mimic Clock Rhythm]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Expanded Arrangement, Subtle Arp Synth]<br \/>\nYears compress in fleeting views<br \/>\nHighlighted and filtered hues<br \/>\nWhat we choose to amplify<br \/>\nStill can\u2019t stop the passing by<\/p>\n<p>Time\u2019s not stored in what we show<br \/>\nBut in all we\u2019ll never know<br \/>\nEvery silence, every space<br \/>\nLives beyond the saved embrace<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Stronger Build, Snare Crescendo, Vocal Stack]<br \/>\nYou can count but not contain<br \/>\nEvery loss and every gain<br \/>\nWhat we measure, what we see<br \/>\nIsn\u2019t all that time can be<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Big Chorus, Layered Vocals, Driving Rhythm]<br \/>\nDid you see the sign<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t reach infinity<br \/>\n(Due to mortality)<br \/>\nEvery life defined<br \/>\n(By its line)<br \/>\nJust a passing sign<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Breakdown: Piano, Ambient Synth, Low Sub Pulse]<br \/>\nA line begins<br \/>\nA line will end<br \/>\nNo way to pause<br \/>\nNo way to bend<\/p>\n<p>We try to mark<br \/>\nWe try to keep<br \/>\nBut time moves on<br \/>\nToo vast, too deep<\/p>\n<p>[Build-Up]<br \/>\n[Snare Roll Crescendo, Rising Synth Arpeggio, Guitar Feedback]<br \/>\n(Time\u2026)<br \/>\n(Time\u2026)<br \/>\n(In time\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\n[Explosive Full Band, Double-Time Feel, Full Vocal Stack]<br \/>\nDid you see the sign<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t reach infinity<br \/>\n(No, not this time)<br \/>\nEvery second gone<br \/>\n(By design)<br \/>\nJust a fading line<br \/>\n(On your timeline)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Fade: Piano Motif, Guitar Echo, Clock FX Slows]<br \/>\n[Beat Drops Out \u2192 Ambient Only]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal, fading]<br \/>\nIt was never endless\u2026<br \/>\nJust\u2026 in motion\u2026<br \/>\n(Now a new notion)<br \/>\n&#8230; a knew notion<\/p>\n<p>[End \u2192 Clock stops \u2192 Silence]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Line\/\">Line<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Soft Piano Arpeggio, Ambient Synth Pad, Sub Bass Pulse] [Ticking Clock FX, Light Hi-Hat Pattern] [Spoken Vocal, calm, reflective] It feels endless\u2026 Until it doesn\u2019t\u2026 (What is&#8230; wasn&#8217;t) [Build] [Snare Clicks, Rising Synth Filter, Guitar Swells] Scroll it back\u2026 Watch it pass\u2026 (Into the past) [&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-53038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53038","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=53038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53039,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53038\/revisions\/53039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}