{"id":53838,"date":"2026-06-04T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53838"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:21:42","slug":"hole-in-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/06\/04\/hole-in-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole in My Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental: Soft Piano, Echo Guitar, Slow Bass Pulse, Distant Drum Hit]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nNot all systems fail gradually.<br \/>\nSome fail at the seams.<br \/>\nWhere everything seemed intact&#8230;<br \/>\nthen is no longer what it means.<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWe were running steady rhythm<br \/>\n(A stable kind of day)<br \/>\nNothing in the signal<br \/>\n(Suggested it would sway)<\/p>\n<p>Then a tiny misalignment<br \/>\n(A fraction out of place)<br \/>\nTurned into a rupture<br \/>\n(We could not erase)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nAll at once<br \/>\n(Not in time)<br \/>\nAll at once<br \/>\n(Undefined)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nReally?<br \/>\nIs that what you&#8217;re gonna do<br \/>\n(Shoot it straight through)<br \/>\nSuddenly&#8230;<br \/>\n(The start:)<br \/>\nHole in my heart<\/p>\n<p>A structure I depended on<br \/>\n(Just falls apart)<br \/>\nHole in my heart<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nBOOM!<br \/>\n(Sudden failure)<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t endure<br \/>\nSoon!<br \/>\n(And that&#8217;s for sure)<br \/>\nFor certain: future<br \/>\nBecomes obscure<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t slow erosion<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t wear and tear<br \/>\nIt was a single moment<br \/>\nThat fractured all the air<\/p>\n<p>The feedback loops collapsed in<br \/>\nA cascade out of sight<br \/>\nAnd everything went silent<br \/>\nBetween the wrong and right<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nNo warning<br \/>\n(No sign)<br \/>\nNo warning<br \/>\n(Declined)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nReally?<br \/>\nIs that what you&#8217;re gonna do<br \/>\n(Shoot it straight through)<br \/>\nSuddenly&#8230;<br \/>\n(The start:)<br \/>\nHole in my heart<\/p>\n<p>(The system breaks without a sound)<br \/>\nDown, down, down<br \/>\n(&#8230; falls apart)<br \/>\nHole in my heart<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nBOOM!<br \/>\n(Sudden failure)<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t endure<br \/>\nSoon!<br \/>\n(And that&#8217;s for sure)<br \/>\nNothing feels secure<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Music Drops to Sparse Piano and Low Drone]<br \/>\nSome failures are gradual<br \/>\nOthers are binary<br \/>\nA threshold crossed without apology<br \/>\nNo time to inventory<br \/>\nWhat held together yesterday<br \/>\nDoes not imply today<br \/>\nThe structure chooses its collapse<br \/>\nIn its own sudden way<\/p>\n<p>[Build]<br \/>\nSnap&#8230;<br \/>\n(No delay)<br \/>\nBreak&#8230;<br \/>\n(No say)<br \/>\nShift&#8230;<br \/>\n(Away)<br \/>\nAnd nothing stays the same<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Distorted Guitar Burst]<br \/>\n[Echoed Drum Impact]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nReally?<br \/>\nIs that what you&#8217;re gonna do<br \/>\n(Shoot it straight through)<br \/>\nSuddenly&#8230;<br \/>\n(The start:)<br \/>\nHole in my heart<\/p>\n<p>(No warning written in the sky)<br \/>\nNo more asking and asking why&#8230;<br \/>\n(No time to start)<br \/>\nHole in my heart<br \/>\n[Break in the music]<br \/>\nBOOM!<br \/>\n(Sudden failure)<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t endure<br \/>\nSoon!<br \/>\n(And that&#8217;s for sure)<br \/>\nNothing stays secure<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Soft Piano, Fading Echo]<br \/>\nSometimes the first sign of instability&#8230;<br \/>\nis collapse.<br \/>\n(No time lapse)<br \/>\nA hole is not an absence of structure.<br \/>\nIt is the moment structure disappears.<br \/>\n(The absence appears)<br \/>\nDepart&#8230;<br \/>\n(Hole in my heart&#8230;)<br \/>\n[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Cracked-Windshield\/\">Cracked Windshield<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] [Instrumental: Soft Piano, Echo Guitar, Slow Bass Pulse, Distant Drum Hit] [Spoken Vocal] Not all systems fail gradually. Some fail at the seams. Where everything seemed intact&#8230; then is no longer what it means. [Verse 1] We were running steady rhythm (A stable kind of day) Nothing in the signal (Suggested it would sway) [&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-53838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53838","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=53838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53839,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53838\/revisions\/53839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}