{"id":42,"date":"2026-05-07T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/?p=42"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:52:58","slug":"man-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/2026\/05\/07\/man-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man On The Street by Lobster Optimus Ltd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F120441504&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes:<br>This song was a lot of fun to create. John laid down the original piano and we built it from there. Originally it had a simple click track. I thought that was a little bland so I wrote a hi-hat line and threw in a few other things to add interest. I think this was our first song with no guitars.<br>Jeff<br><br>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics by John Lister<br>The man on the street, Doesn\u2019t want to know what\u2019s going on<br>He feels incomplete, waiting for his worthless day to dawn<br>He opens his eyes; before the sunrise<br>He often denies; that there is no prize<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The man on the street, Doesn\u2019t want to hear about a starving child<br>He feels kind of beat, He\u2019s been eating pizza all the while<br>He doesn\u2019t wear skirts; but stuffs all his shirts<br>Bad Kharma he spurts; like a giant squid squirts<br>The man on the street, sends some money to a charity<br>Changing his ways, maybe it will somehow set him free<br>He fears it\u2019s too late; like closing a gate<br>Playing crosswords with fate; He impersonates<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decidedly sad, staring at the east, while traveling west<br>Straining his neck, he is just confused like all the rest<br>He opens his eyes; before the sunrise<br>He often denies; that there is no prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:This song was a lot of fun to create. John laid down the original piano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}