{"id":52819,"date":"2026-04-28T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=52819"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:57:49","slug":"post-hole-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/04\/28\/post-hole-digger\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Hole Digger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Rhythmic Shovel Hits, Stomp-Clap Beat, Twangy Guitar Riff, Low Bass Thump]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal, Gritty Tone]<br \/>\nDig it deep\u2026<br \/>\n(Down, down deep)<br \/>\nDon\u2019t look down\u2026<br \/>\n(Might&#8217;ve found&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Groove Locks In, Folk-Rock Feel, Driving Kick, Snappy Snare, Banjo Accents]<br \/>\nStarted out just breakin\u2019 ground<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t think you\u2019d stick around<br \/>\nOne more post, one more line<br \/>\nBuild it up, define the line<br \/>\nMeasured twice, then went too far<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t see just where you are<br \/>\nNow the dirt is all you see<br \/>\nWalls you built surroundin\u2019 me<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Instrumentation Pulls Back, Bass Pulse, Hand Claps]<br \/>\nStep by step, you sealed the fate<br \/>\nBuilt it strong\u2014but built it late<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[Full Groove, Call-and-Response Vocals, Stomp-Clap Energy]<br \/>\nDug yourself a hole<br \/>\n(Hence you built a fence)<br \/>\nFound a new role<br \/>\n(\u2019cause ya can\u2019t climb out)<\/p>\n<p>Shout!<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t climb out)<br \/>\nNo way to play<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t come out today)<\/p>\n<p>Shout!<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t climb out)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Rhythm Tightens, Electric Guitar Enters with Edge, Percussion Builds]<br \/>\nEvery post another claim<br \/>\nEvery inch a tighter frame<br \/>\nWhat you made to keep things in<br \/>\nNow won\u2019t let you out again<br \/>\nBoundaries turned into a cage<br \/>\nWritten down on every page<br \/>\nThought control was what you\u2019d gain<br \/>\nNow you\u2019re locked inside the chain<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\n[Half-Time Feel, Deep Bass, Echoed Vocal Layers]<br \/>\nLine by line, it closed you in<br \/>\nWhere do you end\u2014where to begin?<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\n[Stronger Dynamics, Layered Vocals, Driving Beat]<br \/>\nDug yourself a hole<br \/>\n(Hence you built a fence)<br \/>\nFound a new role<br \/>\n(\u2019cause ya can\u2019t climb out)<\/p>\n<p>Shout!<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t climb out)<br \/>\nNo way to play<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t come out today)<\/p>\n<p>Shout!<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t climb out)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Breakdown: Sparse Guitar, Foot Stomps, Distant Echo, Minimal Kick]<br \/>\nDiggin\u2019 deeper, day by day<br \/>\nThrowin\u2019 all your chance away<br \/>\nWhat was meant to mark your space<br \/>\nTurned into a locked-in place<br \/>\nIf you stop, can you reverse?<br \/>\nOr just keep diggin\u2019\u2014make it worse?<\/p>\n<p>[Build-Up]<br \/>\n[Snare Roll, Rising Energy, Group Claps]<br \/>\nClimb\u2026 out\u2026<br \/>\n(Turn around\u2026)<br \/>\nClimb\u2026 out\u2026<br \/>\n(Stand your ground\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Refrain]<br \/>\n[Maximum Energy, Full Band, Crowd Chant Feel]<br \/>\nDug yourself a hole<br \/>\n(Hence you built a fence)<br \/>\nFound a new role<br \/>\n(\u2019cause ya can\u2019t climb out)<\/p>\n<p>Shout!<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t climb out)<br \/>\nNo way to play<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t come out today)<\/p>\n<p>Shout!<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t climb out)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Outro: Groove Slows, Shovel Hits Return, Guitar Fades]<br \/>\n[Spoken Vocal, Fading]<br \/>\nYou dug it\u2026<br \/>\n(Can you dig it)<br \/>\nNow livin&#8217; in a pit\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Mechatronics\/\">Mechatronics<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Rhythmic Shovel Hits, Stomp-Clap Beat, Twangy Guitar Riff, Low Bass Thump] [Spoken Vocal, Gritty Tone] Dig it deep\u2026 (Down, down deep) Don\u2019t look down\u2026 (Might&#8217;ve found&#8230;) [Verse 1] [Groove Locks In, Folk-Rock Feel, Driving Kick, Snappy Snare, Banjo Accents] Started out just [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52819","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=52819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52820,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52819\/revisions\/52820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}