You can pull one of my songs right out of thin air
Go ahead and download me see if I care
In love war and cyberspace everything`s fair
And it`s ok to steal `coz it`s so nice to share
You`re in luck `cos last night it happened again
I was feeling creative about twenty to ten
So I sharpened a pencil then I wore down its end
And now soon you`ll have something to share with your friends
It took twenty minutes to write down this song
Tune`s public domain but I didn`t do wrong
I chewed up the pencil and the eraser`s all gone
Scratched my head and my balls but it didn`t take long
Songwriting`s not so hard it`s well understood
Anyone can do it and everyone should
And I`m sure you could write and sing something as good
With some balls and a pencil I`m sure that you would
A PC`s like a crowbar it`s only a tool
Music flows like water from a big public pool
But I wanna get paid for my work but I`m a fool
Because trading and sharing`s so awesome and cool
I don`t mean to be flip I don`t wanna be pat
And those Metallica guys are all getting too fat
Free information yeah what`s wrong with that
Something for nothing that`s where it`s at
And those moguls run labels and you call `em all crooks
`Cos they crunch the numbers and they cook the books
But I signed that contract and I got my hand shook
Shaking hands with the devil it`s not as bad as it looks
You can pull one of my songs right out of thin air
bootleg and download me just see if I care
In love war and cyberspace everything`s fair
And it`s ok to steal `coz it`s so nice to share