{"id":35163,"date":"2024-06-14T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=35163"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:22:02","slug":"before-we-choke-can-we-see-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/06\/14\/before-we-choke-can-we-see-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Before We Choke (Can We See Democracy?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-I.mp3\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-I.mp4\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-II.mp3\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-II.mp4\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-III.mp3\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-III.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-III.mp4\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-III.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-IV.mp3\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-IV.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-IV.mp4\"> Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-IV.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nBefore we choke<br \/>\nConsider your vote<br \/>\nThe not-quite-woke<br \/>\nAre sinking the boat<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re taking on water<br \/>\nSacrificing son and daughter<br \/>\nToo far into fail<br \/>\nTo bail or to bail<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nCan we see<br \/>\nDemocracy<br \/>\nIs on the line<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nAll the time<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nIf they gloat the bloat,<br \/>\nDo they get your vote<br \/>\nThe not-quite-woke<br \/>\nConnote demote<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re taking on water<br \/>\nSacrificing son and daughter<br \/>\nToo far into fail<br \/>\nTo bail or to bail<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nCan we see<br \/>\nDemocracy<br \/>\nIs on the line<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nAll the time<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo, Piano]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nCan we see<br \/>\nDemocracy<br \/>\nIs on the line<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nAll the time<br \/>\nCan we see<br \/>\nDemocracy<br \/>\nIs on the line<br \/>\nCan we see<br \/>\nThe crime of all time<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Free Democracy&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/The_Beatless_Sense_Mongers\/\">The Beatless Sense Mongers<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-I.mp3 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-I.mp4 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-II.mp3 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-II.mp4 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-III.mp3 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-III.mp4 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-IV.mp3 Before-We-Choke__Can-We-See-Democracy-IV.mp4 [Verse 1] Before we choke Consider your vote The not-quite-woke Are sinking the boat [Chorus] We&#8217;re taking on water Sacrificing son and daughter Too far into fail To bail or to bail [Bridge] Can we see Democracy Is on the line [Break] All the time [Instrumental, Guitar [&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":[9,14,3955,24],"tags":[3983,326,546,563],"class_list":["post-35163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-free-democracy","tag-freedom","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35170,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35163\/revisions\/35170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}