{"id":51701,"date":"2026-03-16T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51701"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:38:35","slug":"against-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/16\/against-the-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Against the Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro \u2013 Spoken \/ Chant]<br \/>\nHear the billions!<br \/>\n(Counting our lives!)<br \/>\nStacked in towers!<br \/>\n(Where power thrives!)<\/p>\n<p>[Organ swell, pulsing bass]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThey sit on golden thrones<br \/>\n(High in the sky)<br \/>\nWe sweat and we toil<br \/>\n(While they decide)<\/p>\n<p>Every second measured<br \/>\n(Each breath we give)<br \/>\nEvery fortune built<br \/>\n(On the life we live)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus 1 \u2013 Chantable]<br \/>\nA billion seconds sold!<br \/>\n(Billion, billion, billion!)<br \/>\nCorruption in plain sight!<br \/>\n(We see it all!)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Spoken \/ Rising]<br \/>\nOr everything breaks\u2026<br \/>\n(When we rise awake!)<\/p>\n<p>[Synth arpeggio builds]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Call &#038; Response]<br \/>\nLeader: Against the crown!<br \/>\nCrowd: We will stand tall!<br \/>\nLeader: Against the lies!<br \/>\nCrowd: That bind us all!<\/p>\n<p>Leader: A billion voices!<br \/>\nCrowd: Rising in the night!<br \/>\nLeader: Against the crown!<br \/>\nCrowd: For what is right!<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2 \u2013 Spoken \/ Chant]<br \/>\nEvery ledger open!<br \/>\n(Expose their greed!)<br \/>\nEvery rule they bend!<br \/>\n(To crush our need!)<\/p>\n<p>Money talks louder!<br \/>\n(But we\u2019ve got fire!)<br \/>\nBillions of hearts!<br \/>\n(Burning with desire!)<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown \u2013 Mass Chant]<br \/>\nNow we rise!<br \/>\n(Now we rise!)<br \/>\nThis sh\u2026 it dies!<br \/>\n(Sh\u2026 it dies!)<\/p>\n<p>From the street!<br \/>\n(To the crowd!)<br \/>\nHear the people shout it loud!<br \/>\n(Shout it loud!)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus 2 \u2013 Chant]<br \/>\nA billion seconds spent\u2026<br \/>\n(Under their rule!)<br \/>\nWe won\u2019t be silenced!<br \/>\n(By their tool!)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus \u2013 Reprise \/ Mass]<br \/>\nLeader: Against the crown!<br \/>\nCrowd: We will stand tall!<br \/>\nLeader: Against the lies!<br \/>\nCrowd: That bind us all!<\/p>\n<p>Leader: A billion hearts!<br \/>\nCrowd: Joining in the fight!<br \/>\nLeader: Against the crown!<br \/>\nCrowd: For what is right!<\/p>\n<p>All Together:<br \/>\nRise! Rise! Rise!<br \/>\n(Against the crown!)<br \/>\nFight! Fight! Fight!<br \/>\n(We take it down!)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Breakdown \u2013 Spoken \/ Chant]<br \/>\nEvery promise printed in gold\u2026<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t hide the truth!)<\/p>\n<p>Time is ours now\u2026<br \/>\n(Count every breath!)<\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t bow down\u2026<br \/>\n(We choose life over death!)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Extended Instrumental \/ Chant Fade]<br \/>\nTick\u2026 tick\u2026 tick\u2026<br \/>\n(We take the score!)<\/p>\n<p>Billions counted!<br \/>\n(And still we rise!)<\/p>\n<p>Against the crown!<br \/>\n(We claim the skies!)<\/p>\n<p>The crown&#8230;<br \/>\n(&#8230; is going down!)<\/p>\n<p>[Deep bass pulse, organ drone, echoing guitar harmonics, fading chants]<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Billions\/\">Billions<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro \u2013 Spoken \/ Chant] Hear the billions! (Counting our lives!) Stacked in towers! (Where power thrives!) [Organ swell, pulsing bass] [Verse 1] They sit on golden thrones (High in the sky) We sweat and we toil (While they decide) Every second measured (Each breath we [&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":[17,1],"tags":[4188],"class_list":["post-51701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narley-marley-reggae","category-uncategorized","tag-reggae-getaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51701","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=51701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51703,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51701\/revisions\/51703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}