{"id":50481,"date":"2026-01-28T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50481"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:12:15","slug":"all-uphill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/28\/all-uphill\/","title":{"rendered":"All Uphill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nDoes your rock roll<br \/>\n(Is it all downhill)<br \/>\nUnfortunate goal<br \/>\n(Not to stop &#8217;till the top)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nAn eternity<br \/>\nSpent mistaking motion<br \/>\n&#8230; for momentum<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nFreewill?<br \/>\nIt was all uphill<br \/>\n(The downhill part came faster every time)<br \/>\nFaster and faster<br \/>\n(Toward disaster)<br \/>\nHumanity&#8217;s crime (I&#8217;mmm&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nDoes your rock roll<br \/>\n(Despite negativity for gravity)<br \/>\nThis is no rock n&#8217; roll stroll<br \/>\n(Repet, repet, repetitivity)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n&#8230; stupidity<br \/>\nAn eternity<br \/>\nSpent mistaking motion<br \/>\n&#8230; for momentum<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nIs it still<br \/>\n(All up hill)<br \/>\nWhy I ask<br \/>\n(The futile task)<br \/>\nLost your freewill?<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG \/ MORAL OF THE STORY<br \/>\nBecause of his chronic deceit and bottomless greed, Sisyphus was condemned for all eternity to roll a massive boulder up a hill\u2014only to watch it thunder back down again. Over and over. It was all uphill.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy wasn\u2019t just the rock. It was the promise. Each ascent began with a speech about how this time would be different, how the incline was actually leveling off, how the summit had never looked more attainable. The boulder was rebranded as \u201ctremendous.\u201d The slope was declared \u201cthe greatest hill in history.\u201d And gravity, of course, was dismissed as a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>But physics is stubborn. So is truth. The rock kept rolling back.<\/p>\n<p>In <b>The End<\/b>, the punishment wasn\u2019t the labor. It was the repetition\u2014the endless cycle of hype, strain, collapse, and denial. A masterclass in exertion without progress. An eternity spent mistaking motion for momentum.<\/p>\n<p>It was all uphill. And the downhill part came faster every time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Sisyphus\/\">Sisyphus<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Verse 1] Does your rock roll (Is it all downhill) Unfortunate goal (Not to stop &#8217;till the top) [Bridge] An eternity Spent mistaking motion &#8230; for momentum [Chorus] Freewill? It was all uphill (The downhill part came faster every time) Faster and faster (Toward disaster) Humanity&#8217;s crime (I&#8217;mmm&#8230;.) [Verse 2] Does your rock roll (Despite [&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":[9,14,25],"tags":[4202],"class_list":["post-50481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-the-end","tag-sisyphus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481","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=50481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50505,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481\/revisions\/50505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}