{"id":52255,"date":"2026-04-05T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52255"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:25:11","slug":"rebel-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/05\/rebel-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Slow Organ Swell, Echoed Guitar, Deep Bass Pulse, Distant Synth]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nBurning brighter<br \/>\n(Burning faster)<br \/>\nGetting hotter<br \/>\n(Every after)<br \/>\n[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Guitar Feedback, Organ Drone, Snare March]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Steady Beat, Warm Bass, Atmospheric Synth, Tremolo Guitar]<br \/>\nA star that feeds the planets<br \/>\nA fire in the sky<br \/>\nA furnace for the living<br \/>\nToo fierce to question why<br \/>\nThe oceans start to simmer<br \/>\nThe forests start to fade<br \/>\nThe third rock keeps on turning<br \/>\nThrough the mess that we have made<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Snare Build, Rising Synth, Layered Vocals]<br \/>\nOne more degree<br \/>\nOne more sign<br \/>\nOne more warning line by line<br \/>\nOne more drought<br \/>\nOne more flame<br \/>\nOne more storm without a name<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWayward<br \/>\n(Rebel sun)<br \/>\nHeaded toward<br \/>\n(&#8230; &#8220;and then some&#8221;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The only star<br \/>\n(That went too far)<br \/>\nThird planet out<br \/>\n(Shout:)<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s it about?<br \/>\n(With a rebel yell:)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to tell<br \/>\n(Given heaven)<br \/>\nChoosing hell<br \/>\n(Oh, well)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Driving Bass, Piano Chords, Low Synth, Guitar Echoes]<br \/>\nThe cities trap the sunlight<br \/>\nThe asphalt holds the heat<br \/>\nThe skies above grow thicker<br \/>\nThe air is hard to breathe<br \/>\nWe blame the distant heavens<br \/>\nWe curse the blazing light<br \/>\nBut all along the mirror<br \/>\nWas showing us our plight<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Building Tension, Cymbal Swells, Layered Harmony]<br \/>\nOne more flood<br \/>\nOne more scar<br \/>\nOne more sign we&#8217;ve gone too far<br \/>\nOne more year<br \/>\nOne more cost<br \/>\nOne more paradise we&#8217;ve lost<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nWayward<br \/>\n(Rebel sun)<br \/>\nHeaded toward<br \/>\n(&#8230; &#8220;and then some&#8221;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The only star<br \/>\n(That went too far)<br \/>\nThird planet out<br \/>\n(Shout:)<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s it about?<br \/>\n(With a rebel yell:)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to tell<br \/>\n(Given heaven)<br \/>\nChoosing hell<br \/>\n(Oh, well)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Half-Time Beat, Dark Synth Drone, Echoed Organ]<br \/>\nRebel sun<br \/>\n(&#8230; their sum&#8230;)<br \/>\n&#8230; &#8220;and then some&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n[Minimal Piano, Rising Strings]<br \/>\nA billion engines humming<br \/>\nA billion fires lit<br \/>\nA billion little choices<br \/>\nLeading all of us to this<br \/>\nThe star keeps doing what it does<br \/>\nIt shines, it burns, it gives<br \/>\nThe question is not what it\u2019s done<br \/>\nBut how we choose to live<\/p>\n<p>[Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n[Wild Guitar Solo, Organ Stabs, Heavy Tom Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\n[Massive Chorus: Full Orchestra, Heavy Drums, Layered Choir, Synth Bass]<br \/>\nWayward<br \/>\n(Rebel sun)<br \/>\nHeaded toward<br \/>\n(&#8230; &#8220;and then some&#8221;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The only star<br \/>\n(That went too far)<br \/>\nThird planet out<br \/>\n(Shout:)<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s it about?<br \/>\n(With a rebel yell:)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to tell<br \/>\n(Given heaven)<br \/>\nChoosing hell<br \/>\n(Oh, well)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Fading Piano, Organ Drone, Distant Thunder, Slow Heartbeat Percussion]<br \/>\nBurning brighter<br \/>\n(Burning faster)<br \/>\nGetting hotter<br \/>\n(Every after)<br \/>\n[Fade Out]<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Laboratory\/\">Laboratory<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Slow Organ Swell, Echoed Guitar, Deep Bass Pulse, Distant Synth] [Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal] Burning brighter (Burning faster) Getting hotter (Every after) [Instrumental] [Guitar Feedback, Organ Drone, Snare March] [Verse 1] [Steady Beat, Warm Bass, Atmospheric Synth, Tremolo Guitar] A star that feeds [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narley-marley-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52255","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=52255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52256,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52255\/revisions\/52256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}