{"id":55134,"date":"2026-08-20T17:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=55134"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:32:24","slug":"insane-in-the-methane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/08\/20\/insane-in-the-methane\/","title":{"rendered":"Insane in the Methane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Organ, Synth]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Dirty Garage-Rock Guitar, Thick Bass, Punchy Drums, Distorted Organ, Glitchy Synth Pulses]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t smell it.<\/p>\n<p>But you can measure it.<br \/>\n(If you&#8217;re sane)<br \/>\nMethane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nComing out of pipes<br \/>\nComing out of wells<br \/>\nComing from the places<br \/>\nNobody wants to tell<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nLeak!<br \/>\n(Leak!)<br \/>\nSeek!<br \/>\n(Seek!)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nAre you insane<br \/>\n(In the membrane?)<br \/>\nLeaking methane<br \/>\n(Problem&#8217;s plain)<\/p>\n<p>Are you insane<br \/>\n(In the membrane?)<br \/>\nLeaking methane<br \/>\n(Problem&#8217;s plain)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nMethane!<br \/>\n(What&#8217;s the game?)<br \/>\nInvisible<br \/>\n(But not tame)<\/p>\n<p>Methane!<br \/>\n(Feed the flame)<br \/>\nShort-lived<br \/>\n(But climate-changing)<br \/>\n&#8230; rearranging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nDrill it up<br \/>\nPump it out<br \/>\nMove it down<br \/>\nMove it out<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Electric Guitar Solo: Fuzz-Rock Lead, Wah-Wah, Heavy Bass, Live Drums, Organ Stabs and Glitch Synth]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just<br \/>\nWhat we burn<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s what we churn)<\/p>\n<p>Production<br \/>\n(Transmission)<br \/>\nEmission<br \/>\n(Distribution)<\/p>\n<p>[Rap Vocal Break]<br \/>\nMethane in the pipeline<br \/>\nMethane at the well<br \/>\nMethane in the atmosphere<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t see it well<\/p>\n<p>Quick hit<br \/>\n(Heat trap)<br \/>\nBig effect<br \/>\n(Check that)<\/p>\n<p>Carbon dioxide<br \/>\nSticks around<br \/>\nMethane comes<br \/>\nAnd turns it up now<br \/>\n(Wow!)<\/p>\n<p>Cheap solutions<br \/>\nBig reductions<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the kind of change we make<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait<br \/>\nFor perfect<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait<br \/>\nFor later<\/p>\n<p>If you can stop the leak<br \/>\nWhy would you feed the vapor?<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Music Drops to Bass, Sparse Acoustic Guitar, Distant Synth and Percussion]<br \/>\nAre you insane?<\/p>\n<p>(In the membrane?)<\/p>\n<p>Leaking methane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Problem&#8217;s plain.)<\/p>\n<p>[Whispered]<br \/>\nFind it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fix it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stop it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\nAre you insane<br \/>\n(In the membrane?)<br \/>\nLeaking methane<br \/>\n(Problem&#8217;s plain)<\/p>\n<p>Are you insane<br \/>\n(In the membrane?)<br \/>\nLeaking methane<br \/>\n(Problem&#8217;s plain)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nMethane!<br \/>\n(What&#8217;s the game?)<br \/>\nInvisible<br \/>\n(But not tame)<\/p>\n<p>Methane!<br \/>\n(Feed the flame)<br \/>\nSeek the leak<br \/>\n(Stop the game)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Distorted Guitar Riff, Deep Bass, Drums, Organ and Glitch Synth; Sudden Cut to Silence]<br \/>\nAre you insane<br \/>\n(In the membrane?)<br \/>\nLeaking methane<br \/>\n(Problem&#8217;s plain)<\/p>\n<p>[Spoken, fading]<\/p>\n<p>Problem&#8217;s plain.<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Demand-Destruction\/\">Demand Destruction<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Organ, Synth] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Dirty Garage-Rock Guitar, Thick Bass, Punchy Drums, Distorted Organ, Glitchy Synth Pulses] [Spoken Vocal] You can&#8217;t see it. 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(If you&#8217;re sane) Methane&#8230; [Verse 1] Coming out of pipes Coming out of wells [&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-55134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55134","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=55134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55144,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55134\/revisions\/55144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}