What once we shared together, now we sell it to compete
The beauty of a painted sunrise sold seems so obscene
We write our lives on trees we chop down just to fuel our industry
and then we sell it to our neighbors at the market value of our dreams
And my voice cracks, I can't sing
I'll never get a record deal
I'll never have the music industry back me
or validate the way I feel
You'll never find my music in a corporate big-box store
The ads won't tell you that I'm everything you've been waiting for
And I'm not
Our lives are not commodities, why do we treat our art as such
We create stories from our experience that mean so much to us
and then we ask what we can get for them, like products in a store
Our lives bought and sold to each other to afford time to create more
And then we give a cut to the gallery, the label, or the promoter of the show
We put so much of our time and work into letting everyone around us know
that we are in it for the music, but it often goes the same
We trade the stories of our lives to be experts, creating art for financial gain
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