{"id":53692,"date":"2026-05-29T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53692"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:55:41","slug":"level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/29\/level\/","title":{"rendered":"Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Dark Ambient Synth Drone, Sparse Kick Drum, Reverbed Piano Hits, Low Electric Guitar Feedback]<br \/>\nCity lights are leaning low<br \/>\nAs if they don\u2019t know where to go<br \/>\nEverything begins to tilt<br \/>\nBuilt on fractures, pride, and guilt<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Steady Mid-Tempo Drum Groove, Muted Bassline, Clean Guitar Arpeggios, Cold Synth Pads]<br \/>\nWe keep drawing crooked lines<br \/>\nCalling chaos \u201cjust designs\u201d<br \/>\nBut the balance starts to slip<br \/>\nRight beneath the fingertip<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Heavy Driving Rhythm, Distorted Guitar Layers, Rising Synth Swells, Vocal Stack Emphasis]<br \/>\nCome on&#8230;<br \/>\nLevel with me<br \/>\n(Do you want to level the ground)<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230;<br \/>\nPlease tell me<br \/>\n(Are we really bent&#8230; hell bound?)<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230;<br \/>\nBreak the seam<br \/>\n(What does it mean?)<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230;<br \/>\nWake the dream<br \/>\n(From what\u2019s unseen)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Pulsing Bass Synth, Syncopated Drum Hits, Echoed Guitar Lines, Atmospheric Noise FX]<br \/>\nWe pretend the floor is straight<br \/>\nWhile ignoring what we create<br \/>\nBut distortion starts to show<br \/>\nIn the places we don\u2019t go<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Half-Time Breakdown, Deep Sub Bass, Sustained Organ, Rising Tension Cymbal Swells]<br \/>\nIf the world is off by just a line<br \/>\nAt what point do we redefine<br \/>\nWhat is stable, what is real<br \/>\nWhat we break and what we heal?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Full Band Explosion, Layered Harmonies, Anthemic Guitar Leads, Massive Drum Hits]<br \/>\nCome on&#8230;<br \/>\nLevel with me<br \/>\n(Do you want to level the ground)<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230;<br \/>\nPlease tell me<br \/>\n(Are we really bent&#8230; hell bound?)<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230;<br \/>\nStand or fall<br \/>\n(Through it all)<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230;<br \/>\nHear the call<br \/>\n(To unfall)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Fading Piano Motif, Low Ambient Drone, Soft Guitar Harmonics, Slow Reverb Tail]<br \/>\nThe world still tilts when no one sees<br \/>\nBalance lost in subtle degrees<br \/>\nAnd somewhere in the shifting frame<br \/>\nWe keep calling out a name\u2026 \u201clevel.\u201d<br \/>\n(Well&#8230;)<br \/>\n&#8230; level<br \/>\n(Well&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Raze\/\">Raze<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Dark Ambient Synth Drone, Sparse Kick Drum, Reverbed Piano Hits, Low Electric Guitar Feedback] City lights are leaning low As if they don\u2019t know where to go Everything begins to tilt Built on fractures, pride, and guilt [Verse 1] [Arrangement: Steady Mid-Tempo Drum Groove, Muted Bassline, Clean Guitar Arpeggios, Cold Synth Pads] [&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-53692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53692","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=53692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53694,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53692\/revisions\/53694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}