{"id":38046,"date":"2024-11-04T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=38046"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:01:05","slug":"the-writing-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/11\/04\/the-writing-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing on the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-0.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-0.mp4\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-I.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-I.mp4\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Reprise.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Reprise.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged-Underground-VIII.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged-Underground-VIII.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged-Underground-VIII.mp4\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged-Underground-VIII.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged.mp4\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-acoustic.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-acoustic.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Writing-on-the-Wall-space-prelude.mp3\"> The-Writing-on-the-Wall-space-prelude.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nBelshazzar\u2019s feast<br \/>\n(Overindulgence)<br \/>\nMark of the beast<br \/>\n(Arrogance)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nEmbodied<br \/>\nBy the disembodied<br \/>\nA warning for all<br \/>\nThe writing&#8217;s on the wall<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBelshazzar\u2019s feast<br \/>\n(Overindulgence)<br \/>\nMark of the beast<br \/>\n(Arrogance)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nConsequences<br \/>\n(Of unchecked consumption)<br \/>\nHindrance dance<br \/>\n(Man&#8217;s malfunction)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nDisregarded by humanity<br \/>\nMan&#8217;s insanity<br \/>\nA warning for all<br \/>\nThe writing&#8217;s on the wall<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBelshazzar\u2019s feast<br \/>\n(Overindulgence)<br \/>\nMark of the beast<br \/>\n(Arrogance)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nConsequences<br \/>\n(Of unchecked consumption)<br \/>\nHindrance dance<br \/>\n(Man&#8217;s malfunction)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBelshazzar\u2019s feast<br \/>\n(Overindulgence)<br \/>\nMark of the beast<br \/>\n(Arrogance)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nConsequences<br \/>\n(Of unchecked consumption)<br \/>\nHindrance dance<br \/>\n(Man&#8217;s malfunction)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nA warning for all<br \/>\nWritten on the wall<\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT THE SONG<\/b><br \/>\nThe Book of Daniel in the Bible contains prophetic visions and stories that, in various ways, can be seen as analogies to the climate crisis and the challenges humanity faces today.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Writing on the Wall (Daniel 5:1-31)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In this story, a disembodied hand writes a warning on the wall during King Belshazzar\u2019s feast, ultimately signaling the end of his kingdom. This is often interpreted as a warning about overindulgence and arrogance. Today, the \u201cwriting on the wall\u201d could signify the scientific warnings and climate models predicting the consequences of unchecked consumption and environmental neglect. Like Belshazzar, who chose to ignore the warnings, humanity has often disregarded climate science and now faces consequences that threaten stability and survival.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/the-last\/\">The Last: Prophecies of Daniel and the Climate Crisis<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/\">Daniel<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The-Writing-on-the-Wall-0.mp3 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-0.mp4 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-I.mp3 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-I.mp4 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Reprise.mp3 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged-Underground-VIII.mp3 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged-Underground-VIII.mp4 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged.mp3 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-Unplugged.mp4 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-acoustic.mp3 The-Writing-on-the-Wall-space-prelude.mp3 [Intro] Belshazzar\u2019s feast (Overindulgence) Mark of the beast (Arrogance) [Verse 1] Embodied By the disembodied A warning for all The writing&#8217;s on the wall [Chorus] Belshazzar\u2019s feast (Overindulgence) Mark of the beast (Arrogance) [Bridge] Consequences (Of unchecked consumption) Hindrance dance (Man&#8217;s malfunction) [Verse 2] [&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],"tags":[163,546,563,4037],"class_list":["post-38046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-the-last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38046","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=38046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38073,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38046\/revisions\/38073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}