{"id":36064,"date":"2024-08-01T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=36064"},"modified":"2024-08-01T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:42:41","slug":"the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/08\/01\/the-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-0.mp3\"> The-Cost-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-0.mp4\"> The-Cost-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-I.mp3\"> The-Cost-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-I.mp4\"> The-Cost-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-Unplugged-Unusual.mp3\"> The-Cost-Unplugged-Unusual.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-Unplugged-Unusual.mp4\"> The-Cost-Unplugged-Unusual.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-Unplugged.mp3\"> The-Cost-Unplugged.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-Unplugged.mp4\"> The-Cost-Unplugged.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-acoustic.mp3\"> The-Cost-acoustic.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/III\/The-Cost-electric.mp3\"> The-Cost-electric.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nWhat is the cost<br \/>\nOf your benefit<br \/>\nWho will likely gain<br \/>\nWhat is lost<br \/>\nIn your spit and fit<br \/>\nAre you even sane?<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThere is the me, my, mine (mine, mine, mine)<br \/>\nBringing on the end of time (all of the time)<br \/>\nWith all the take, take, take (for God&#8217;s sake!)<br \/>\nWhat will it take to wake (wake, wake, wake)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWhat is the cost<br \/>\nOf your benefit<br \/>\nWho will likely gain<br \/>\nWhat is lost<br \/>\nIn your spit and fit<br \/>\nAre you even sane?<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nYour economics<br \/>\nMake us sick<br \/>\nYour cost to society<br \/>\nIs way too mighty<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe eye of the I (aye-aye I)<br \/>\nMakes me sigh n&#8217; cry (tell me why?)<br \/>\nWith all the take, take, take (look what&#8217;s at stake)<br \/>\nWhat will it take to wake (making the earth shake)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWhat is the cost<br \/>\nOf your benefit<br \/>\nWho will likely gain<br \/>\nWhat is lost<br \/>\nIn your spit and fit<br \/>\nAre you even sane?<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nYour economics<br \/>\nMake us sick<br \/>\nYour cost to society<br \/>\nIs way too mighty<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWhat is the cost<br \/>\nOf your benefit<br \/>\nWho will likely gain<br \/>\nWhat is lost<br \/>\nIn your spit and fit<br \/>\nAre you even sane?<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nYour economics<br \/>\nMake us sick<br \/>\n[Outro]<br \/>\nYour cost to society<br \/>\nIs way too mighty<\/p>\n<p>A NOTE ON THE ECONOMY: Are you a cost or a benefit to society?<br \/>\nThe primary driver of the U.S. economy is you, the consumer. Your spending habits fuel demand for goods and services, which in turn stimulates economic growth and drives business activities. The government taxes largely as a result of your consumption; sales taxes, excise taxes, and other consumption-based taxes are significant sources of revenue. Moreover, consumer demand is a major contributor to pollution and climate change. The production and transportation of goods, the generation of energy, and various services required to meet consumer needs all contribute to environmental degradation. Thus, the choices and behaviors of consumers play a crucial role in shaping economic policies, government tax strategies, and environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<h2>From the album &#8220;All Mixed Up&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/The_Beatless_Sense_Mongers\/\">The Beatless Sense Mongers<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The-Cost-0.mp3 The-Cost-0.mp4 The-Cost-I.mp3 The-Cost-I.mp4 The-Cost-Unplugged-Unusual.mp3 The-Cost-Unplugged-Unusual.mp4 The-Cost-Unplugged.mp3 The-Cost-Unplugged.mp4 The-Cost-acoustic.mp3 The-Cost-electric.mp3 [Intro] What is the cost Of your benefit Who will likely gain What is lost In your spit and fit Are you even sane? [Verse 1] There is the me, my, mine (mine, mine, mine) Bringing on the end of time (all of the time) [&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":[14,3955,24],"tags":[3998,163,546,563],"class_list":["post-36064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-all-mixed-up","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36064","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=36064"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36080,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36064\/revisions\/36080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}