{"id":50483,"date":"2026-01-28T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50483"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:54:28","slug":"the-road-to-tartarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/28\/the-road-to-tartarus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Tartarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nBoth of us<br \/>\n(With Tantalus)<br \/>\nTitillating Titans<br \/>\n(On the road to Tartarus)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe deepest abyss of the Underworld<br \/>\n(Unfurled)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nCome join us&#8230;<br \/>\n(With Tantalus)<br \/>\nTitillating Titans<br \/>\n(On the road to Tartarus)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThe deepest abyss of the Underworld<br \/>\n(Unfurled)<br \/>\nEternally teased<br \/>\n(Never pleased)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nNo mess (no fuss)<br \/>\n&#8230; join us&#8230;<br \/>\n(With Tantalus)<br \/>\nTitillating Titans<br \/>\n(On the road to Tartarus)<br \/>\nIn eternity, in well&#8230;<br \/>\n(Not quite hell)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nPreached<br \/>\n(Never reached)<br \/>\nEvery moment<br \/>\n(Every movement)<br \/>\nTorment<br \/>\n(Torment)<br \/>\nMeant<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nTartarus: This is the deepest abyss of the Underworld, used as a dungeon of torment for the wicked and a prison for the Titans. It is where Sisyphus serves his sentence of rolling the boulder and where Tantalus is eternally teased with food and water he can never reach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Sisyphus\/\">Sisyphus<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] Both of us (With Tantalus) Titillating Titans (On the road to Tartarus) [Bridge] The deepest abyss of the Underworld (Unfurled) [Refrain] Come join us&#8230; (With Tantalus) Titillating Titans (On the road to Tartarus) [Bridge] The deepest abyss of the Underworld (Unfurled) Eternally teased (Never pleased) [Refrain] No mess (no fuss) &#8230; join us&#8230; (With [&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":[4202],"class_list":["post-50483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-sisyphus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50483","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=50483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50498,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50483\/revisions\/50498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}