{"id":45707,"date":"2025-08-01T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=45707"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:17:15","slug":"the-early-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/08\/01\/the-early-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XV\/The-Early-Bird.mp3\">The-Early-Bird.mp3<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XV\/The-Early-Bird.mp4\">The-Early-Bird.mp4<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XV\/The-Early-Bird-Unplugged-Underground-XXIV.mp3\">The-Early-Bird-Unplugged-Underground-XXIV.mp3<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XV\/The-Early-Bird-Unplugged-Underground-XXIV.mp4\">The-Early-Bird-Unplugged-Underground-XXIV.mp4<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XV\/The-Early-Bird-intro.mp3\">The-Early-Bird-intro.mp3<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>Are you the bird<br \/>Or the worm<br \/>Haven&#8217;t you heard<br \/>Could bring harm<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>The early bird<br \/>(Catches the worm)<br \/>Find it absurd<br \/>(Does it make you squirm)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<br \/>Say<br \/>(Are you prey)<br \/>Or predator<br \/>(Are you sure?)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>So, will you eat<br \/>Or be eaten<br \/>Sure would be beat<br \/>To be worm-eaten<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>The early bird<br \/>(Catches the worm)<br \/>Find it absurd<br \/>(Does it make you squirm)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<br \/>Say<br \/>(Are you prey)<br \/>Or predator<br \/>(Are you sure?)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>The early bird<br \/>(Catches the worm)<br \/>Find it absurd<br \/>(Does it make you squirm)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<br \/>Say<br \/>(Are you prey)<br \/>Or predator<br \/>(Are you sure?)<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/wormhole\/\">Wormhole<\/a>&#8220;<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The-Early-Bird.mp3 The-Early-Bird.mp4 The-Early-Bird-Unplugged-Underground-XXIV.mp3 The-Early-Bird-Unplugged-Underground-XXIV.mp4 The-Early-Bird-intro.mp3 [Verse 1]Are you the birdOr the wormHaven&#8217;t you heardCould bring harm [Chorus]The early bird(Catches the worm)Find it absurd(Does it make you squirm) [Bridge][Instrumental, Guitar Solo]Say(Are you prey)Or predator(Are you sure?) [Instrumental, Saxophone Solo] [Verse 2]So, will you eatOr be eatenSure would be beatTo be worm-eaten [Chorus]The early bird(Catches the worm)Find [&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],"tags":[4151],"class_list":["post-45707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-wormhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707","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=45707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45721,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707\/revisions\/45721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}