{"id":38234,"date":"2024-11-13T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=38234"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:05:21","slug":"a-sad-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/11\/13\/a-sad-song\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-0.mp3\"> A-Sad-Song-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-0.mp4\"> A-Sad-Song-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-I.mp3\"> A-Sad-Song-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-I.mp4\"> A-Sad-Song-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-Reprise.mp3\"> A-Sad-Song-Reprise.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-Reprise.mp4\"> A-Sad-Song-Reprise.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VI\/A-Sad-Song-jack-guitar.mp3\"> A-Sad-Song-jack-guitar.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWalking down the sidewalk, day after the storm,<br \/>\nI found a little bird, wings broken, torn.<br \/>\nI wondered if it had a home, a place to be,<br \/>\nA family left waiting, still hoping it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nAnd I think of the world, so split, so cold,<br \/>\nWhere lives are lost, our story&#8217;s untold.<br \/>\nFamilies torn, like feathers in the rain,<br \/>\nIn a land divided, hearts full of pain.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe toll<br \/>\n(Of the flight of a soul)<br \/>\nNow on the rise<br \/>\n(To realize)<br \/>\nFly above<br \/>\n(To the love)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nIf the bird\u2019s soul could speak, what would it say?<br \/>\nWould it warn of the times, of the price we\u2019ll pay?<br \/>\nIn a country so divided, so full of fear,<br \/>\nWho\u2019s left to sing when no one&#8217;s here?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nAnd I think of the world, so split, so cold,<br \/>\nWhere lives are lost, and stories go untold.<br \/>\nFamilies torn, like feathers in the rain,<br \/>\nIn a land divided, hearts full of pain.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe toll<br \/>\n(Of the flight of a soul)<br \/>\nNow on the rise<br \/>\n(To realize)<br \/>\nFly above<br \/>\n(To the love)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nHow remote<br \/>\nIs your vote?<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nA collaboration between Jack Brouse and Daniel Brouse about the 2024 election. The day after the election, I was walking to school when I came across a dead bird lying in the middle of the sidewalk. I started to wonder if it had a family. If it did, do they know it\u2019s gone? Or did the world just take it away, leaving them still searching for this lost soul? Then I thought about the state of the country now, and how it might change under Trump. More families may be torn apart, and lives could be lost in this divided America. Inspired by these thoughts, I wrote a riff and may even write lyrics for it.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/careful-what-you-wish-for\/\">Careful What You Wish For<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/elecslug.html\">The Electric Slugs<\/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\/VI\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A-Sad-Song-0.mp3 A-Sad-Song-0.mp4 A-Sad-Song-I.mp3 A-Sad-Song-I.mp4 A-Sad-Song-Reprise.mp3 A-Sad-Song-Reprise.mp4 A-Sad-Song-jack-guitar.mp3 [Verse 1] Walking down the sidewalk, day after the storm, I found a little bird, wings broken, torn. I wondered if it had a home, a place to be, A family left waiting, still hoping it&#8217;s free. 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