{"id":53652,"date":"2026-05-27T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=53652"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:47:27","slug":"tear-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/05\/27\/tear-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Tear It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Aggressive Drum Build, Distorted Bass Rumble, Feedback Guitar Noise, Siren Synth FX]<\/p>\n<p>Concrete shaking under restless feet<br \/>\nAnger marching through the street<br \/>\nEverybody screaming loud<br \/>\nTrying to disappear into the crowd<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Fast Punk Guitar Strums, Driving Bassline, Snappy Snare Hits, Raw Gang Vocals]<\/p>\n<p>Signs held high in the pouring rain<br \/>\nEverybody swearing they can end the pain<br \/>\nBut nobody\u2019s saying what comes next<br \/>\nJust another slogan to project<\/p>\n<p>Burn the bridge, erase the wall<br \/>\nWatch another system fall<br \/>\nSmoke rising through the sound<br \/>\nAs the chaos spins around<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Heavy Power Chords, Chant-Style Backing Vocals, Crashing Cymbals, Tight Bass Groove]<\/p>\n<p>Tear it down<br \/>\n(Without a plan)<br \/>\nAnother round<br \/>\n(For no plan man)<\/p>\n<p>Break the will<br \/>\n(With empty hands)<br \/>\nSpin until<br \/>\n(We don\u2019t understand)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Palm-Muted Guitar Chugs, Syncopated Drums, Distorted Synth Pulse, Vocal Delay Effects]<\/p>\n<p>Every side declares they\u2019re right<br \/>\nFeeding flames all through the night<br \/>\nTruth dissolves into the feed<br \/>\nFueled by outrage, fear, and greed<\/p>\n<p>History repeats again<br \/>\nDifferent flags, familiar ends<br \/>\nEverybody takes a stand<br \/>\nNobody knows how to land<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Half-Time Breakdown, Low Organ Swells, Sparse Kick Drum, Feedback Guitar Layers]<\/p>\n<p>If you tear away the ground<br \/>\nWhat will hold you when you\u2019re down?<br \/>\nIf you burn away &#8220;we&#8217;ll begin&#8221;<br \/>\nCan you build it back again?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Full Band Anthem, Double-Time Drums, Layered Gang Vocals, Roaring Guitar Leads]<\/p>\n<p>Tear it down<br \/>\n(Without a plan)<br \/>\nAnother round<br \/>\n(For no plan man)<\/p>\n<p>Raise the fire<br \/>\n(Watch it expand)<br \/>\nTill it&#8217;s dire<br \/>\n(All the land)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\n[Arrangement: Fading Distortion, Marching Drum Echoes, Distant Crowd Chants, Low Bass Drone]<br \/>\nRound and round the cycle spins<br \/>\nRevolution starts again<br \/>\nEvery empire built on sand<br \/>\nFalls to ever understand.<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Raze\/\">Raze<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Aggressive Drum Build, Distorted Bass Rumble, Feedback Guitar Noise, Siren Synth FX] Concrete shaking under restless feet Anger marching through the street Everybody screaming loud Trying to disappear into the crowd [Verse 1] [Arrangement: Fast Punk Guitar Strums, Driving Bassline, Snappy Snare Hits, Raw Gang Vocals] Signs held high in the pouring [&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-53652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53652","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=53652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53654,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53652\/revisions\/53654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}