Joshua West - O' What a Life

from Round 13, Week 8 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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lyrics

I work and i slave
and pour my heart out
bleed for every note
I push and I pull
my soul out for you all
tear the voice out of my throat
all for little piece of mind
to share a little anecdote
and all I ask at the end of the day
is for enough to stay afloat

O What a life
there's so much out there for me
O What a life
But my art isn't free

I pay a pauper
in a land far away
to develop software code
I collect my fees
distributed to me
for every stream and download
but I pay the artist
whose songs I whore out
a hundredth of what they're owed
and I sit back at the end of the day
making money by the truckload

O What a life
there's so much out there for me
O What a life
Just wait 'til I collect my fee

I tune in to hear
my favorite band
playing their newest song
I click to hear more
from their catalog
listen the whole day long
But I pay my fee
I don't listen for free
I'm not doing anything wrong
what do you fight
for artist rights
can't we all just get along?

O What a life
there's so much out there for me
O What a life
Set the music free

imagine a world
with no colors or sound
everything dull and gray
corporate lists of songs for your moods
telling you what to play
You can't have Earth,
without art
isn't that what they say
it's time to take the power back
time to seize the day!

O What a life
there's so much there for us all
O What a life
Let the towers fall

O What a life
there's so much out there for me
O What a life
But my art isn't free

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from Round 13, Week 8, released February 20, 2017

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