{"id":54855,"date":"2026-07-29T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=54855"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:58:47","slug":"whack-a-mole-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/07\/29\/whack-a-mole-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Whack-A-Mole-E!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Fast Surf Guitar, Punchy Bass, Organ Stabs, Driving Drums]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nReady?<\/p>\n<p>Here it comes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another one!<br \/>\n(Better run!)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhack! (A mole) E!<br \/>\nNot (Exactly)<br \/>\nClose enough<br \/>\n(To call the bluff)<\/p>\n<p>Head in the hole<br \/>\n(Or&#8230; Whack!)<br \/>\nThe goal<br \/>\n(Whacked!)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nOne pops up, another drops<br \/>\nThinking somehow the problem stops<br \/>\nPlug one leak, ignore the next<br \/>\nLife becomes another test<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nWhack-a-mole!<br \/>\n(Here we go!)<br \/>\nRound and round<br \/>\n(The same old show)<\/p>\n<p>Treat the symptom<br \/>\n(Not the cause)<br \/>\nPlaying by<br \/>\n(The old applause)<\/p>\n<p>Swing again<br \/>\n(Miss the point)<br \/>\nTime to fix<br \/>\n(The broken joint)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Refrain]<br \/>\nWhack! (A mole) E!<br \/>\nNot (Exactly)<br \/>\nClose enough<br \/>\n(To call the bluff)<\/p>\n<p>Head in the hole<br \/>\n(Or&#8230; Whack!)<br \/>\nThe goal<br \/>\n(Whacked!)<br \/>\n[Wild Guitar Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Driving Bass, Organ Swells, Heavy Drums, Playful Synth]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nBuild a wall against the tide<br \/>\nAnother river changes sides<br \/>\nFight one fire, another starts<br \/>\nPlaying games with loaded cards<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n&#8230; understanding<br \/>\nThe whole disaster<br \/>\n(The need&#8230; comin&#8217; on faster)<\/p>\n<p>Cause and effect<br \/>\n(Link as one)<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the race<br \/>\n(To be won)<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Deep Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nYou can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Keep swinging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or, I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fix the machine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Making&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The moles appear.<br \/>\n(Here)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nWhack! (A mole) E!<br \/>\nNot (Exactly)<br \/>\nClose enough<br \/>\n(To call the bluff)<\/p>\n<p>Head in the hole<br \/>\n(Or&#8230; Whack!)<br \/>\nThe goal<br \/>\n(Whacked!)<\/p>\n<p>See the pattern<br \/>\n(That&#8217;s the key)<br \/>\nSolve the cause<br \/>\n(Set it free)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Organ Hits, Surf Guitar, Crowd Shouts, Drum Finale]<br \/>\nWhack!<\/p>\n<p>Whack!<\/p>\n<p>Whack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stop feeding the moles.<br \/>\n(Defeating the goals)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Exactly\/\">Exactly<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Fast Surf Guitar, Punchy Bass, Organ Stabs, Driving Drums] [Spoken Vocal] Ready? Here it comes&#8230; Another one! (Better run!) [Refrain] Whack! (A mole) E! Not (Exactly) Close enough (To call the bluff) Head in the hole (Or&#8230; Whack!) The goal (Whacked!) [Verse 1] One [&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-54855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855","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=54855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54857,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54855\/revisions\/54857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}