{"id":50552,"date":"2026-01-30T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50552"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:02:48","slug":"tyrant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/30\/tyrant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nListen to the tyrant rant<br \/>\n(The bully puppet in the bully pulpit) <\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nAbsolute, self-serving rule<br \/>\n(By the nation&#8217;s ranking fool)<br \/>\nUsing pain, fear, and cruelty<br \/>\n(To spew false reality)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nListen to the tyrant rant<br \/>\n(The bully puppet in the bully pulpit) <\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nUnjust and absolute<br \/>\n(A typical brute)<br \/>\nAnd most certainly<br \/>\n(Lack of empathy)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThe manipulation of man<br \/>\n(Destroying all that he can)<br \/>\nWith utter certainty<br \/>\n(The grandest grandiosity)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Outro]<br \/>\nAs he rants<br \/>\n(His pants&#8230;)<br \/>\nAre on fire!<br \/>\n(Liar, liar, liar)<br \/>\nNo more fears&#8230;<br \/>\n(Turn deaf ears)<br \/>\nSo we can&#8217;t<br \/>\n(Listen to the tyrant rant)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Rebellion\/\">Rebellion<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] Listen to the tyrant rant (The bully puppet in the bully pulpit) [Verse 1] Absolute, self-serving rule (By the nation&#8217;s ranking fool) Using pain, fear, and cruelty (To spew false reality) [Bridge] Listen to the tyrant rant (The bully puppet in the bully pulpit) [Chorus] Unjust and absolute (A typical brute) And most certainly [&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":[4203],"class_list":["post-50552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-rebellion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552","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=50552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50570,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552\/revisions\/50570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}