{"id":53285,"date":"2026-05-13T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53285"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:43:21","slug":"aint-singin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/13\/aint-singin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t Singin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Organ, Bass, Percussion, Drums, Handclaps]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Upbeat Acoustic Strumming, Walking Bassline, Piano Riffs]<br \/>\n[Loose Drum Groove, Handclaps, Crowd Ambience]<br \/>\nSun came up, feeling fine<br \/>\nLeft the heavy clouds behind<br \/>\nStepped outside into the day<br \/>\nTold my worries: (&#8220;walk away!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Rhythmic Guitar Chops, Bright Piano, Steady Kick Drum]<br \/>\nYou can carry all that weight<br \/>\nOr set it down before it\u2019s late<br \/>\nPeople talking doom and gloom<br \/>\nLiving locked inside a room<br \/>\nBut I found another view<br \/>\n(&#8230; you can find it too)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Organ Swell, Tambourine Build, Vocal Harmony]<br \/>\nWatch the minutes slip away&#8230;<br \/>\nWhy spend all your time in gray?<br \/>\nLift your eyes and move your feet<br \/>\nBring the rhythm to the street<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Full Band, Open Cymbals, Layered Vocals]<br \/>\nNo, ain\u2019t singin\u2019 the blues<br \/>\n(Happy as can be)<br \/>\nIt\u2019s up to you which you choose<br \/>\n(Get happy with me)<\/p>\n<p>No, ain\u2019t carryin\u2019 bad news<br \/>\n(Feeling wild and free)<br \/>\nLife keeps changing how it moves<br \/>\n(Get happy with me)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break: Piano Solo, Blues Guitar Fill, Handclaps]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Driving Bassline, Organ Chords, Snare Accents]<br \/>\nHard times come and hard times go<br \/>\nThat\u2019s one thing we all know<br \/>\nYou can drown in yesterday<br \/>\nOr laugh and dance your cares away<br \/>\nLittle sparks can light the room<br \/>\nEven in the deepest gloom<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Half-Time Groove, Warm Organ, Gospel Harmony]<br \/>\nA smile can travel far and wide<br \/>\nOpen up what\u2019s locked inside<br \/>\nDoesn\u2019t mean the pain\u2019s not real<br \/>\nJust means hearts can learn to heal<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Build: Rising Organ, Drum Fills, Guitar Sustain]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\n[Big Band Energy, Group Vocals, Tambourine]<br \/>\nNo, ain\u2019t singin\u2019 the blues<br \/>\n(Happy as can be)<br \/>\nIt\u2019s up to you which you choose<br \/>\n(Get happy with me)<\/p>\n<p>No, ain\u2019t livin\u2019 to lose<br \/>\n(Standing tall happily)<br \/>\nEvery day\u2019s another chance<br \/>\n(Come along in song and dance)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Fading Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Crowd Claps]<br \/>\nGet happy now<br \/>\nSomehow (&#8230; someway)<br \/>\nGet happy now<br \/>\nDon\u2019t wait another day\u2026<br \/>\n(Hey! Hey! Hey!)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Blue\/\">Blue<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Organ, Bass, Percussion, Drums, Handclaps] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Upbeat Acoustic Strumming, Walking Bassline, Piano Riffs] [Loose Drum Groove, Handclaps, Crowd Ambience] Sun came up, feeling fine Left the heavy clouds behind Stepped outside into the day Told my worries: (&#8220;walk away!&#8221;) [Verse 1] [Rhythmic Guitar Chops, Bright Piano, [&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-53285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53285","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=53285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53286,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53285\/revisions\/53286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}