{"id":38537,"date":"2024-11-23T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=38537"},"modified":"2024-11-23T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:15:15","slug":"the-pride-of-fools-a-dark-ballad-of-temptation-and-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/11\/23\/the-pride-of-fools-a-dark-ballad-of-temptation-and-consequence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pride of Fools (A Dark Ballad of Temptation and Consequence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-Unplugged.mp3\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-Unplugged.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-Unplugged.mp4\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-Unplugged.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-jacks-interlude.mp3\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-jack&#8217;s-interlude.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-I.mp3\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-I.mp4\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-II.mp3\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-II.mp4\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-III.mp3\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-III.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/The-Pride-of-Fools-III.mp4\"> The-Pride-of-Fools-III.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nDaunting<br \/>\n(Foreboding yet taunting)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nAre you a chicken, no, you\u2019re bold as steel,<br \/>\nThe call of the forest, a forbidden ordeal.<br \/>\nA castle deep within, where shadows play,<br \/>\nThe mythical Pocket Chicken takes its prey.<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nLegends whispered, a grip of iron tight,<br \/>\nA kingdom of fear, shrouded in night.<br \/>\nThe brave who wander, the lost who fall,<br \/>\nAnswering pride\u2019s foolish call.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThe pride of fools, it lures you in,<br \/>\nA dance of darkness where it all begins.<br \/>\nSell your soul to the whispers deep,<br \/>\nAnd march with the herd, where the pigs do weep.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe pride of fools<br \/>\n(Hard knocks&#8217; schools)<br \/>\nMarch with the herd<br \/>\n(So absurd)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThey beckon with chants, a klan\u2019s cruel song,<br \/>\nBreaking the rights where the free belong.<br \/>\nThe forest looms, its shadows grow,<br \/>\nA trail of lies where the foolish go.<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nThe castle waits, a sinister glow,<br \/>\nA throne of deceit, a place of woe.<br \/>\nThe brave who enter never return,<br \/>\nTheir pride consumed, their fates adjourned.<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThe pride of fools, it lures you in,<br \/>\nA dance of darkness where it all begins.<br \/>\nSell your soul to the whispers deep,<br \/>\nAnd march with the herd, where the pigs do weep.<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe Pocket Chicken rules with claw and beak,<br \/>\n(A false salvation for the proud and weak.)<br \/>\nThey boast of freedom, but chains remain,<br \/>\n(Bound by lies in shadows&#8217; domain.)<\/p>\n<p>Daunting<br \/>\n(Foreboding and haunting)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThe pride of fools, it lures you in,<br \/>\nA dance of darkness where it all begins.<br \/>\nSell your soul to the whispers deep,<br \/>\nAnd march with the herd, where the pigs do weep.<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nThe forest whispers, the castle stands<br \/>\n(The pride of fools still claims its bands)<br \/>\nWill you step forth, or turn away?<br \/>\n(The price of pride is yours to pay)<\/p>\n<p>By Jack Brouse and Daniel Brouse as part of the Adventures of Pocket Chicken<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/slugging-it-out\/\">Slugging It Out<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/elecslug.html\">The Electric Slugs<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/VII\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The-Pride-of-Fools-Unplugged.mp3 The-Pride-of-Fools-Unplugged.mp4 The-Pride-of-Fools-jack&#8217;s-interlude.mp3 The-Pride-of-Fools-I.mp3 The-Pride-of-Fools-I.mp4 The-Pride-of-Fools-II.mp3 The-Pride-of-Fools-II.mp4 The-Pride-of-Fools-III.mp3 The-Pride-of-Fools-III.mp4 [Intro] Daunting (Foreboding yet taunting) [Verse 1] Are you a chicken, no, you\u2019re bold as steel, The call of the forest, a forbidden ordeal. A castle deep within, where shadows play, The mythical Pocket Chicken takes its prey. [Pre-Chorus] Legends whispered, a grip of iron tight, [&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":[9,14,3955,1551],"tags":[546,563,4046],"class_list":["post-38537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-electric-slugs","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-slugging-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38560,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38537\/revisions\/38560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}