{"id":51309,"date":"2026-03-02T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51309"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:31:47","slug":"pure-blood-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/02\/pure-blood-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Blood Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Low Organ Drone, Slow Kick Pulse]<br \/>\nSpoken (cold, deliberate):<br \/>\nDefine \u201cfit.\u201d<br \/>\n(Define \u201cpure.\u201d)<br \/>\nDefine \u201chuman.\u201d<br \/>\n(Are you sure?)<\/p>\n<p>You gen-sick\u2026<br \/>\n(Eugenics\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Snare Snap]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nMeasure skulls<br \/>\n(Measure worth)<br \/>\nPlay god games<br \/>\n(Decide who births)<\/p>\n<p>Sanitized<br \/>\n(In lab-coat lies)<br \/>\nDress up hate<br \/>\n(As enterprise)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nCharts and graphs<br \/>\n(Cold design)<br \/>\nCross a name<br \/>\n(Out of line)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nPure blood myth<br \/>\n(Weaponized)<br \/>\nDress up cruelty<br \/>\n(Standardized)<br \/>\nCull the weak<br \/>\n(So you say)<br \/>\nHistory\u2019s screaming<br \/>\n(Not again \u2014 no way)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Sub Bass Throb, Sparse Percussion]<br \/>\nWho gave you the right?<br \/>\n(Who made you king?)<br \/>\nWho draws the circle?<br \/>\n(Who\u2019s let in?)<\/p>\n<p>Selective mercy?<br \/>\n(Selective grace?)<br \/>\nLook in the mirror \u2014<br \/>\n(See that face?)<\/p>\n<p>[Angular Guitar Solo \u2014 jagged, tense]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSterilize<br \/>\n(\u201cFor the good\u201d)<br \/>\nCleanse the blood<br \/>\n(Neighborhood)<\/p>\n<p>Numbers rising<br \/>\n(Quiet trains)<br \/>\nScience twisted<br \/>\n(Through old refrains)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nPure blood myth<br \/>\n(Weaponized)<br \/>\nCold arithmetic<br \/>\n(Human lives)<br \/>\n\u201cImprovement\u201d<br \/>\n(That\u2019s the spin)<br \/>\nRot starts<br \/>\n(From within)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<br \/>\n[Saxophone Solo \u2014 dissonant, uneasy]<br \/>\n[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Courtroom Style]<br \/>\nSpoken:<br \/>\nExhibit A.<br \/>\n(The past.)<br \/>\nExhibit B.<br \/>\n(The cast.)<br \/>\nExhibit C.<br \/>\n(Your creed.)<br \/>\nObjection \u2014<br \/>\n(It bleeds.)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Bigger, Defiant]<\/p>\n<p>Pure blood myth<br \/>\n(Exposed as fraud)<br \/>\nPlaying savior<br \/>\n(Playing god)<br \/>\nYou gen-sick<br \/>\n(We resist)<br \/>\nHuman worth<br \/>\n(Is not a list)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instruments Strip Down to Bass + Organ]<br \/>\nYou gen-sick\u2026<br \/>\n(Eugenics\u2026)<br \/>\nSo slick\u2026<br \/>\n(But we see it)<br \/>\nNo more myths\u2026<br \/>\n(We defeat it)<\/p>\n<p>[Single Drum Hit \u2014 Fade]<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Beyond-Belief\/\">Beyond Belief<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Low Organ Drone, Slow Kick Pulse] Spoken (cold, deliberate): Define \u201cfit.\u201d (Define \u201cpure.\u201d) Define \u201chuman.\u201d (Are you sure?) You gen-sick\u2026 (Eugenics\u2026) [Snare Snap] [Verse 1] Measure skulls (Measure worth) Play god games (Decide who births) Sanitized (In lab-coat lies) Dress up hate (As enterprise) [Pre-Chorus] [&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":[3],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-51309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309","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=51309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51310,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions\/51310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}