{"id":56540,"date":"2026-11-03T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=56540"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:49:15","slug":"marshal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/11\/03\/marshal-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshal Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a siren in the distance<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a shadow on the wall<br \/>\nSomeone&#8217;s talking about emergencies<br \/>\nLike they&#8217;re waiting for the call<\/p>\n<p>A threat becomes a headline<br \/>\nA headline becomes a plan<br \/>\nAnd suddenly the question is<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s really in command?<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nAnother election lie&#8230;<br \/>\nThe rhetoric gets loud<br \/>\nThe same ole cry, cry, cry&#8230;<br \/>\nAbout the voting of the crowd<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re planting seeds of doubt<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re working up the crowd<br \/>\nAnd telling us the system&#8217;s broken<br \/>\nSo the rules can be disavowed<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nMarshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nWho put this clown in command?<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand&#8230;<br \/>\n(All over the land?)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nEmergency powers<br \/>\nAre a dangerous game<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t declare an emergency<br \/>\nJust because you claim your fame<\/p>\n<p>You can shout about a rigged vote<br \/>\nYou can turn the volume high<br \/>\nBut making claims is not the same<br \/>\nAs showing people why<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nMarshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nWho put this clown in command?<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand&#8230;<br \/>\n(All over the land?)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nWho decides?<br \/>\n(Who decides?)<br \/>\nWho complies?<br \/>\n(Who complies?)<\/p>\n<p>Is it law?<br \/>\n(Is it fear?)<br \/>\nIs the threat<br \/>\nReally here?<\/p>\n<p>The power isn&#8217;t personal<br \/>\nThe office isn&#8217;t king<br \/>\nThe people choose their leaders<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the point of everything<\/p>\n<p>No crown!<br \/>\n(No crown!)<br \/>\nNo throne!<br \/>\n(No throne!)<br \/>\nThe government belongs<br \/>\nTo voting throngs!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t shoot the sheriff&#8230;<br \/>\n(Didn&#8217;t even see the deputy)<br \/>\nBut, the gall<br \/>\n(After all&#8230;)<br \/>\nOf the self-declared Marshal!<br \/>\n(Martial!)<br \/>\nLaw!<br \/>\n(Jaw dropping awe!)<br \/>\nRead the Constitution!<br \/>\n(That&#8217;s the law!)<br \/>\nNot the latest proclamation<br \/>\n(Of a wannabe czar!)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nMarshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nWho put this clown in command?<br \/>\n(Dam!)<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand&#8230;<br \/>\n(All over the land?)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\nMarshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nWho put this clown in command?<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t own this land!<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nThe Constitution still stands!<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<br \/>\nThe people make the plans!<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nNo manufactured crisis<br \/>\nNo dictator&#8217;s master plan<br \/>\nNo emergency election<br \/>\nTo keep one person in command<\/p>\n<p>The ballot is the answer<br \/>\nThe people have a say<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t get to cancel democracy<br \/>\nBecause you lost the day<\/p>\n<p>Marshal?<br \/>\n(Martial law)<\/p>\n<p>Who put this clown in command?<br \/>\n(I&#8217;ll be damned&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>About the Song<br \/>\nThe new release of the day is &#8220;Marshal Law&#8221; \u2014 a reggae, bluegrass, and lo-fi hip-hop fusion track inspired by a true story where fact is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration? President Donald Trump is pointedly refusing to rule out invoking emergency powers, while high-profile MAGA activists and allies are openly urging him to issue emergency orders or even declare martial law if they believe the November 2026 midterm elections are &#8220;rigged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a song about political power, election denial, and the dangerous idea that a leader can challenge the rules when the people don&#8217;t deliver the result he wants.<br \/>\nSometimes you just can&#8217;t make this stuff up. So I made a song about it! <\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Social-Truth\/\">Social Truth<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] There&#8217;s a siren in the distance There&#8217;s a shadow on the wall Someone&#8217;s talking about emergencies Like they&#8217;re waiting for the call A threat becomes a headline A headline becomes a plan And suddenly the question is Who&#8217;s really in command? [Verse 1] Another election lie&#8230; The rhetoric gets loud The same ole cry, [&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":"","nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[4223],"class_list":["post-56540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narley-marley-reggae","category-uncategorized","tag-reggae-takeaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56540","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=56540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56552,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56540\/revisions\/56552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}