{"id":54416,"date":"2026-07-03T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=54416"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:51:16","slug":"the-man-with-no-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/07\/03\/the-man-with-no-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man With No Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Dark cinematic rock with driving bass, echoing guitar, orchestral strings, and a relentless tribal beat]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nWho was he?<br \/>\n(Nobody knows)<br \/>\nWhere&#8217;d he go?<br \/>\n(The story shows)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nHe built the towers<br \/>\n(Reaching high)<br \/>\nBurned tomorrow<br \/>\n(To live today)<\/p>\n<p>Counted profits<br \/>\n(Ignored the cost)<br \/>\nWon the battle<br \/>\n(Then all was lost)<\/p>\n<p>Every warning<br \/>\n(Came and went)<br \/>\nEvery chance<br \/>\n(Was quickly spent)<\/p>\n<p>Now the echoes<br \/>\n(Call his name)<br \/>\nThough no one<br \/>\n(Will take the blame)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nIt got to the point in evolution<br \/>\n(Where they forfeited adaptation)<br \/>\nNo solution for their pollution<br \/>\n(Cast their fate from this date)<\/p>\n<p>It got to the point in evolution<br \/>\n(They abandoned transformation)<br \/>\nNo solution for their pollution<br \/>\n(Left no future for the nation)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe rivers rose<br \/>\n(The forests burned)<br \/>\nStill the lessons<br \/>\n(Were never learned)<\/p>\n<p>Heat kept climbing<br \/>\n(Year by year)<br \/>\nYet denial<br \/>\n(Proved sincere)<\/p>\n<p>Nature doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n(Compromise)<br \/>\nPhysics never<br \/>\n(Tells us lies)<\/p>\n<p>Cause and consequence<br \/>\n(Stay the same)<br \/>\nLong forgotten<br \/>\n(Who lit the flame)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nLost the game<br \/>\n(The man with no name)<br \/>\nBlame and shame<br \/>\n(The man with no name)<\/p>\n<p>Lost the game<br \/>\n(No one to claim)<br \/>\nBlame and shame<br \/>\n(Still all the same)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nHistory asks<br \/>\n(What became?)<br \/>\nOnly silence<br \/>\n(Answers the name)<\/p>\n<p>[Guitar Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nIt got to the point in evolution<br \/>\n(Where they forfeited adaptation)<br \/>\nNo solution for their pollution<br \/>\n(Cast their fate from this date)<\/p>\n<p>The final chapter<br \/>\n(Still unwritten)<br \/>\nIf we choose<br \/>\n(To finally listen)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\nLost the game<br \/>\n(The man with no name)<br \/>\nBlame and shame<br \/>\n(The man with no name)<\/p>\n<p>Write it down<br \/>\n(While there&#8217;s still time)<br \/>\nChange the ending<br \/>\n(Before the final line)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nWho was he?<br \/>\n(It could be us&#8230;)<br \/>\nOr someone<br \/>\n(Who chose enough&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Whats-in-a-Name\/\">What\u2019s in a Name?<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Arrangement: Dark cinematic rock with driving bass, echoing guitar, orchestral strings, and a relentless tribal beat] [Intro] Who was he? (Nobody knows) Where&#8217;d he go? (The story shows) [Verse 1] He built the towers (Reaching high) Burned tomorrow (To live today) Counted profits (Ignored the cost) Won the battle (Then all was lost) Every [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54416","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=54416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54417,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54416\/revisions\/54417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}