{"id":38797,"date":"2024-11-30T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=38797"},"modified":"2024-11-30T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T19:27:39","slug":"retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/11\/30\/retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/5-Retrospective-Bonus.mp3\"> 5-Retrospective-Bonus.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/5-Retrospective-Bonus.mp4\"> 5-Retrospective-Bonus.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/5-Retrospective-intro.mp3\"> 5-Retrospective-intro.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/5-Retrospective.mp3\"> 5-Retrospective.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/5-Retrospective.mp4\"> 5-Retrospective.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nLooking back<br \/>\n(In hindsight)<br \/>\nWhy did we lack<br \/>\n(Seeing the light)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know<br \/>\n(Dwelling in the shadow)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nBiological journey<br \/>\n(Cultural sojourn)<br \/>\nWhat sort of dreams we see<br \/>\n(What wisdom shall be born)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nLooking back<br \/>\n(Way, way back)<br \/>\nCan you say<br \/>\n(Which way)<br \/>\nCan you tell<br \/>\n(So well)<br \/>\nHow the evolution of Man<br \/>\n(Began)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nLooking back<br \/>\n(In hindsight)<br \/>\nWhy did we lack<br \/>\n(Seeing the light)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nCode of Hammurabi<br \/>\n(An eye for an eye)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, so forth<br \/>\n(And so on)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n10,000 years ago (or so)<br \/>\nThey say (we start to pray)<br \/>\nEve and the serpent (represent)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nLooking back<br \/>\n(In hindsight)<br \/>\nWhy did we lack<br \/>\n(Seeing the light)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, so forth<br \/>\n(And so on)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, on and on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nThe Decline of Modern Civilization<br \/>\n(Realization)<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll come to see<br \/>\n(Accountability)<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve come to see<br \/>\n(Reality)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nJustice is&#8230;<br \/>\n(What we do D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu)<br \/>\nWhat once was&#8230;<br \/>\n(Of our &#8220;because&#8221;)<br \/>\nBoo! (D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu)<br \/>\nComing true<br \/>\nWhat you do<br \/>\n(Comes back to bite you)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Bass Solo]<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, so forth<br \/>\n(And so on)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, on and on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nLooking back<br \/>\n(In hindsight)<br \/>\nWhy did we lack<br \/>\n(Seeing the light)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, so forth<br \/>\n(And so on)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, on and on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Verse[<br \/>\nUltimately (you and me)<br \/>\nDetermined (our destiny)<br \/>\nDo we realize (We emphasize)<br \/>\nOur rapid demise<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<br \/>\nThe choices of our lives<br \/>\nWhether humanity thrives<br \/>\n(Or everybody dies)<br \/>\nRealize<br \/>\n(No surprise)<\/p>\n<p>[Break]<br \/>\nModern Babylon<br \/>\n(We babble on)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, so forth<br \/>\n(And so on)<br \/>\nBabylon<br \/>\n(Babble on and on)<br \/>\nAnd, on and on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nVestiges of tails in Humans<br \/>\n(We lost our tail)<br \/>\nVestiges of tales of Humans<br \/>\n(We lost our tale)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nVestiges of tails in Humans<br \/>\n(We lost our tail)<br \/>\nVestiges of tales of Humans<br \/>\n(We lost our tale)<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/the-evolution-of-man\/\">Evolution of Man<\/a>:&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/the-end\/\">The End<\/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\/VII\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-Retrospective-Bonus.mp3 5-Retrospective-Bonus.mp4 5-Retrospective-intro.mp3 5-Retrospective.mp3 5-Retrospective.mp4 [Intro] Looking back (In hindsight) Why did we lack (Seeing the light) I don&#8217;t know (Dwelling in the shadow) [Verse] Biological journey (Cultural sojourn) What sort of dreams we see (What wisdom shall be born) [Bridge] Looking back (Way, way back) Can you say (Which way) Can you tell (So [&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":[9,14,3955,25],"tags":[546,563,4051],"class_list":["post-38797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-end","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-the-evolution-of-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797","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=38797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38805,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797\/revisions\/38805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}