{"id":53218,"date":"2026-05-11T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53218"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:10:15","slug":"touched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/11\/touched\/","title":{"rendered":"Touched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Uneasy Synth Drone, Offbeat Percussion, Delayed Guitar Notes, Pulsing Bass]<\/p>\n<p>[Spoken Vocal with Slight Distortion]<br \/>\nHe keeps talking in circles\u2026<br \/>\n(Preaching of miracles)<br \/>\nHis signal got crossed somewhere<br \/>\n(Dense&#8230; unaware)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Short Angular Guitar Phrase with Organ Swells]<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[Call-and-Response Vocals, Rhythmic Bass Pulse, Hand Percussion]<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(Much)<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(And such)<br \/>\nTouched<\/p>\n<p>Lost<br \/>\n(A bit)<br \/>\nCrossed<br \/>\n(Of wit)<br \/>\nTouched<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Steady Mid-Tempo Groove, Muted Guitar Chops, Organ Texture]<br \/>\nHe connects unrelated stories<br \/>\nTurns small details into signs<br \/>\nBuilds strange towers of his glories<br \/>\nDraws conclusions between the lines<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Fuller Arrangement, Bigger Drum Sound, Expanded Harmonies]<br \/>\nHaving heard what he said&#8230;<br \/>\n(A little touched in the head)<br \/>\nNo offense&#8230;<br \/>\n(But he makes no sense)<\/p>\n<p>Signals fade<br \/>\n(Then rearrange)<br \/>\nTruth and noise<br \/>\n(Begin to exchange)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[More Aggressive Groove, Crowd-Style Vocal Responses]<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(Much)<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(And such)<br \/>\nTouched<\/p>\n<p>Bent<br \/>\n(Around)<br \/>\nSent<br \/>\n(Unbound)<br \/>\nTouched<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Experimental Synth and Guitar Solo with Unpredictable Rhythmic Changes]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Half-Time Feel, Atmospheric Pads, Sparse Piano Accents]<br \/>\nGiven all his strange reflections<br \/>\nDeserves universal rejection<br \/>\nStill beneath the tangled language<br \/>\nIs the load of criminal baggage<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Music Drops to Bass Pulse and Minimal Electronic Percussion]<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(By the noise)<\/p>\n<p>Touched<br \/>\n(By the voice)<\/p>\n<p>Touched<br \/>\n(By confusion)<\/p>\n<p>Touched<br \/>\n(By illusion)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Extended Progressive Guitar and Synth Duel, Explosive Drum Crescendo]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\n[Maximum Energy, Anthemic Harmonies, Crashing Cymbals, Expansive Synth Layers]<br \/>\nHaving heard what he said&#8230;<br \/>\n(A little touched in the head)<br \/>\nNo offense&#8230;<br \/>\n(But he makes no sense)<\/p>\n<p>Dense and slurred<br \/>\n(The words connect)<br \/>\nBent and blurred<br \/>\n(So incorrect)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\n[Repeated Vocal Chant with Increasing Intensity]<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(Much)<br \/>\nTouched<br \/>\n(And such)<br \/>\nTouched<\/p>\n<p>Touched\u2026<br \/>\n(Touched\u2026)<br \/>\nTouched\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumentation Falls Away to Distant Synth Drone and Delayed Guitar Echoes]<br \/>\nHaving considered words spoken<br \/>\n(Perhaps his signal is completely broken\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Ending]<br \/>\n[Single Dissonant Piano Chord Slowly Resolves into Silence]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Connection\/\">Connection<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental] [Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Uneasy Synth Drone, Offbeat Percussion, Delayed Guitar Notes, Pulsing Bass] [Spoken Vocal with Slight Distortion] He keeps talking in circles\u2026 (Preaching of miracles) His signal got crossed somewhere (Dense&#8230; unaware) [Instrumental] [Short Angular Guitar Phrase with Organ Swells] [Refrain] [Call-and-Response Vocals, Rhythmic Bass Pulse, Hand [&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-53218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218","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=53218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53219,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53218\/revisions\/53219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}