{"id":55323,"date":"2026-09-03T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=55323"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:34:22","slug":"granular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/09\/03\/granular\/","title":{"rendered":"Granular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Arrangement: Driving blues-rock\/piano-rock with pounding drums, gritty electric guitar, Hammond organ, and a rolling bass line. Start tight and rhythmic, then build into a heavy fluidization breakdown.]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nPiece by piece<br \/>\nGrain by grain<br \/>\nRock and ice<br \/>\nIn the rain<\/p>\n<p>What was solid<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t stay still<br \/>\nDown the slope<br \/>\nAgainst its will<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nGet down to the smallest pieces<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s where the story starts<br \/>\nPebbles, sand and broken stone<br \/>\nScattered parts of parts<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you get down to the nitty gritty<br \/>\n(Granular)<br \/>\nIs it grand or is it a pity<br \/>\n(Spectacular)<\/p>\n<p>A concoction<br \/>\n(Of debris)<br \/>\nFluidization<br \/>\n(Headin&#8217; for the sea)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nRock comes crashing down all around<br \/>\nGuess she&#8217;s breaking free<br \/>\nInfiltrate the fractures<br \/>\nLubricate liquidity<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you get down to the nitty gritty<br \/>\n(Granular)<br \/>\nIs it grand or is it a pity<br \/>\n(Spectacular)<\/p>\n<p>A concoction<br \/>\n(Of debris)<br \/>\nFluidization<br \/>\n(Headin&#8217; for the sea)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\nRock!<br \/>\n(Rock!)<br \/>\nMix it up!<br \/>\n(Mix it up!)<br \/>\nShake it loose!<br \/>\n(Shake it loose!)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Heavy guitar riff]<br \/>\n[Pounding piano]<br \/>\n[Hammond organ swell]<br \/>\n[Drums accelerate]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nGranular!<br \/>\n(Down to the grain!)<br \/>\nSpectacular!<br \/>\n(Here comes the rain!)<\/p>\n<p>A concoction<br \/>\n(Of debris)<br \/>\nFluidization<br \/>\n(Headin&#8217; for the sea!)<\/p>\n<p>Granular!<br \/>\n(Nitty gritty!)<br \/>\nGrandiose or a pity?<br \/>\n(Spectacular failure)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhen you get down to the nitty gritty<br \/>\n(Granular)<br \/>\nIs it grand or is it a pity<br \/>\n(Spectacular)<\/p>\n<p>A concoction<br \/>\n(Of debris)<br \/>\nFluidization<br \/>\n(Headin&#8217; for the sea)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nGrain by grain<br \/>\nStone by stone<br \/>\nWater finds<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s way home<\/p>\n<p>Granular&#8230;<br \/>\n(Granular!)<\/p>\n<p>Down to the nitty gritty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Headin&#8217; for the sea!)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Fluidization\/\">Fluidization<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Arrangement: Driving blues-rock\/piano-rock with pounding drums, gritty electric guitar, Hammond organ, and a rolling bass line. Start tight and rhythmic, then build into a heavy fluidization breakdown.] [Intro] Piece by piece Grain by grain Rock and ice In the rain What was solid Won&#8217;t stay still Down the slope Against its will [Verse 1] Get [&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-55323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55323","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=55323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55324,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55323\/revisions\/55324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}