{"id":38074,"date":"2024-11-05T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=38074"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:12:06","slug":"the-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/11\/05\/the-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Statue-I.mp3\"> The-Statue-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Statue-I.mp4\"> The-Statue-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Statue-II.mp3\"> The-Statue-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Statue-II.mp4\"> The-Statue-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/The-Statue-space-prelude.mp3\"> The-Statue-space-prelude.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nOne of those<br \/>\nTo strike a pose<br \/>\nThe statue&#8230;<br \/>\nCould happen to you, too<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nNebuchadnezzar<br \/>\n(How bizarre)<br \/>\nFar out dreams<br \/>\n(Radical scenes)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOn your own<br \/>\nStruck by a stone<br \/>\nDisintegration<br \/>\nOf your nation<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe statue&#8230;<br \/>\nHappening to you, too<br \/>\nVulnerable to collapse<br \/>\n(Prolapse)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nGold and silver<br \/>\n(Smash and sliver)<br \/>\nAll of our peace<br \/>\n(Falls to pieces)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOn your own<br \/>\nStruck by a stone<br \/>\nDisintegration<br \/>\nOf your nation<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe statue&#8230;<br \/>\nHappening to you, too<br \/>\nVulnerable to collapse<br \/>\n(Prolapse)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nOn your own<br \/>\nStruck by a stone<br \/>\nDisintegration<br \/>\nOf your nation<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nOne of those<br \/>\nTo strike a pose<br \/>\nThe statue&#8230;<br \/>\nHappening to you, too<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nWill your dreams<br \/>\nPull at the seams (Seems)<br \/>\nScenes<\/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 Vision of the Statue (Daniel 2:31-45)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In this vision, King Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a statue with different parts made of various materials: gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay. Each section represents a kingdom, which eventually collapses when struck by a stone. This statue\u2019s disintegration can be likened to the breakdown of our environmental \u201ckingdom\u201d due to climate change. The progressive weakening of the statue, from solid gold to fragile clay, mirrors how the climate crisis weakens Earth\u2019s systems\u2014oceans, air, soil, and ecosystems\u2014which, like the statue, are interconnected and vulnerable to collapse.<\/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-Statue-I.mp3 The-Statue-I.mp4 The-Statue-II.mp3 The-Statue-II.mp4 The-Statue-space-prelude.mp3 [Intro] One of those To strike a pose The statue&#8230; Could happen to you, too [Verse 1] Nebuchadnezzar (How bizarre) Far out dreams (Radical scenes) [Chorus] On your own Struck by a stone Disintegration Of your nation [Bridge] The statue&#8230; Happening to you, too Vulnerable to collapse (Prolapse) [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-38074","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\/38074","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=38074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38090,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38074\/revisions\/38090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}