{"id":54743,"date":"2026-07-24T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=54743"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:28:02","slug":"set-em-up-knock-em-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/07\/24\/set-em-up-knock-em-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Set \u2018Em Up, Knock \u2018Em Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Driving Bass, Piano Riff, Organ Swells, Crunchy Guitar, Marching Drums]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nOne&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>after another.<\/p>\n<p>Standing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>in a line.<br \/>\n(How much time?)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nSet &#8217;em up<br \/>\n(Knock &#8217;em down)<br \/>\nYep&#8230;<br \/>\n(Watch &#8217;em fall all around)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nOne small push, one tiny lean<br \/>\nChanges the things in between<br \/>\nStanding steady, row by row<br \/>\nWaiting for the first to go<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nOne by one<br \/>\n(Then two by two)<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s behind&#8230;<br \/>\n(Is coming through)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nSet &#8217;em up<br \/>\n(Knock &#8217;em down)<br \/>\nWatch the circle<br \/>\n(Come around)<\/p>\n<p>One small motion<br \/>\n(Starts the flow)<br \/>\nHow far it goes&#8230;<br \/>\n(You never know)<\/p>\n<p>Set &#8217;em up<br \/>\n(Knock &#8217;em down)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n[Heavy Bass Groove, Organ Chords, Fast Drum Fills, Layered Synths]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nIce gives way, the oceans rise<br \/>\nSmoke climbs upward to the skies<br \/>\nForests fade, the rivers change<br \/>\nNothing stays within its range<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nConnected worlds<br \/>\n(Connected fate)<br \/>\nThe first small push&#8230;<br \/>\n(Can escalate)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nNot by chance&#8230;<br \/>\n(Not by luck)<br \/>\nJust the way&#8230;<br \/>\n(Systems work)<\/p>\n<p>One transition<br \/>\n(Leads to more)<br \/>\nOpening yet&#8230;<br \/>\n(Another door)<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Deep Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nAfter all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A domino&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>doesn&#8217;t choose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>to fall.<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nSet &#8217;em up<br \/>\n(Knock &#8217;em down)<br \/>\nYep&#8230;<br \/>\n(Watch &#8217;em fall all around)<\/p>\n<p>One becomes<br \/>\n(Two become four)<br \/>\nAs they reach<br \/>\n(Forever more)<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies&#8230;<br \/>\n(Dominoes&#8230;)<br \/>\nFeedback loops&#8230;<br \/>\n(All in rows&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Set &#8217;em up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Knock &#8217;em down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(There it goes!)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Echo Guitar, Organ Sustain, Piano Chords, Final Drum Hits]<br \/>\nSet &#8217;em up<br \/>\n(Knock &#8217;em down)<br \/>\nYep&#8230;<br \/>\n(Watch &#8217;em fall all around)<br \/>\nFalling down<br \/>\n(Down, down, down)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Butterflies-and-Dominoes\/\">Butterflies and Dominoes<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Driving Bass, Piano Riff, Organ Swells, Crunchy Guitar, Marching Drums] [Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal] One&#8230; after another. Standing&#8230; in a line. (How much time?) [Refrain] Set &#8217;em up (Knock &#8217;em down) Yep&#8230; (Watch &#8217;em fall all around) [Verse 1] One small [&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-54743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54743","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=54743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54744,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54743\/revisions\/54744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}