{"id":53493,"date":"2026-05-20T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53493"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:54:31","slug":"quarantine-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/20\/quarantine-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<\/p>\n<p>[sterile ambient drones, heartbeat kick, distant alarm tones, filtered radio static]<br \/>\nContainment begins now\u2026<br \/>\n(Wow)<br \/>\nReduce exposure\u2026<br \/>\n(Sure)<br \/>\nReduce contact\u2026<br \/>\n(Fact)<br \/>\nReduce transmission\u2026<br \/>\n(Suggestion)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[minimal industrial groove, pulsing synth bass, echoing percussion]<br \/>\nHeat outside and sickness near,<br \/>\nEvery surface growing fear,<br \/>\nMasks and gloves beside the flame,<br \/>\nEverything contaminated just the same<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[rising synth tension, whispered layered vocals, ticking electronic percussion]<br \/>\nEvery touch becomes a test,<br \/>\nEvery cough disrupts the rest,<br \/>\nIsolation turns routine,<br \/>\nLiving inside the quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[heavy atmospheric drop, deep bass pulses, hypnotic vocal layering]<br \/>\nQuarantine time<br \/>\n(On the space-time continuum)<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\n(I think)<br \/>\nStink?<br \/>\n(Sanitize)<br \/>\nRealize<\/p>\n<p>The only plausible survival strategy<br \/>\n(Reality)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[groove intensifies, metallic percussion, pulsing sub bass]<br \/>\nBoil the water, clean the blade,<br \/>\nSeal the wounds before they spread,<br \/>\nSeparate the sick from well,<br \/>\nTrying not to build a hell.<\/p>\n<p>Pathogens evolve too fast,<br \/>\nLearning from the hosts they pass,<br \/>\nEvery breach invites the swarm,<br \/>\nEvery weakness feeds the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Children learning distance rules,<br \/>\nSleeping chambers turned to tools,<br \/>\nEntire cultures reorganized,<br \/>\nAround what must be sterilized.<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus 2]<br \/>\n[synth swell, layered choir textures, accelerating drums]<br \/>\nThe warming world expands the range,<br \/>\nOld diseases start to change,<br \/>\nBoundaries blur from beast to man,<br \/>\nAnd survival shrinks its span.<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[expanded instrumentation, deeper bass, echo-heavy chants]<br \/>\nQuarantine time<br \/>\n(On the space-time continuum)<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\n(I think)<br \/>\nStink?<br \/>\n(Sanitize)<br \/>\nRealize<\/p>\n<p>The only plausible survival strategy<br \/>\n(Reality)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[half-time breakdown, eerie piano notes, distant ventilation hum]<br \/>\nLock the chamber\u2026<br \/>\nFilter the air\u2026<br \/>\nCount the symptoms\u2026<br \/>\nWatch and prepare\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Isolation\u2026)<br \/>\nSterilization<br \/>\n(Desolation)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<\/p>\n<p>[glitchy synth solo, industrial drum barrage, alarm-like guitar swells]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\n[maximal intensity, layered choir, pounding industrial rhythm section]<br \/>\nQuarantine time<br \/>\n(On the space-time continuum)<br \/>\nI am<br \/>\n(I think)<br \/>\nStink?<br \/>\n(Sanitize)<br \/>\nRealize<\/p>\n<p>The only plausible survival strategy<br \/>\n(Reality)<\/p>\n<p>Containment line<br \/>\n(Protect the timeline)<br \/>\nStay alive<br \/>\n(And survive)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[slow fade into ventilation ambience, faint heartbeat bass, distant radio chatter]<br \/>\nWash the hands\u2026<br \/>\nSeal the door\u2026<br \/>\nWait for the signal\u2026<br \/>\nAnd endure\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Whispered Vocal]<br \/>\n(&#8220;quarantine time\u2026 quarantine time\u2026&#8221;)<br \/>\n&#8230; for whom does the bell chime&#8230;..?<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Nagatitan\/\">Nagatitan<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] [sterile ambient drones, heartbeat kick, distant alarm tones, filtered radio static] Containment begins now\u2026 (Wow) Reduce exposure\u2026 (Sure) Reduce contact\u2026 (Fact) Reduce transmission\u2026 (Suggestion) [Verse 1] [minimal industrial groove, pulsing synth bass, echoing percussion] Heat outside and sickness near, Every surface growing fear, Masks and gloves beside the flame, Everything contaminated just the same [&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":[3],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-53493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53493","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=53493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53495,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53493\/revisions\/53495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}