Welcome to the food chain and you are right about ______ (here)
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Your music is worth $50 and 6 free beers
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And the beer is not a form of payment or hospitality,
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it's a buffer between you and the insulting reality:
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$50 for six guys, two crew, and gas money?!
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For four hours of work, heavy lifting, and crowd stunning?
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I make less than one dollar an hour for fifty hours a week,
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which I give back to the band so we can pay for the CD
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that some PYT will no doubt ask for
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as a donation to her Your Not Worth My Six Bucks Foundation
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And I feel like the stickler?! I REMAIN CALM!
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And pray that decency will hit her before I do
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It's not that I can't grasp the concept of self-promotion,
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it's just that this "supporter" grossly undervalues our devotion
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Most jobs last a year? I'm talking life sentence
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Convicted in '95 and been in love ever since
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I won't forget how it feels
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bolting a smile on my jaw
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bathing in sacrifice, playing the rug
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Art has too many users to be a good drug
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It¡¯s all wearing thin...these methods of trying to get fat
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feeding off the table scraps of headlining acts
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Bumping off our sound check, cutting the already short set,
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every lenience is an "inconvenience" every monitor is now a threat
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And I'm trying to squeeze out approval from a biased audience
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by jumping up and down on hostile ground
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It's hard to look relaxed when your Big Break is being held hostage,
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then look thankful while you hustle your gear off stage
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to make time for dead air _________________ to build tension in the room
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(and here I thought there was enough, our set was over so soon)
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And in a way it's justified because "which band is really the draw?"
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The one with the label PAYING for the airplay nonstop!
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I'm not demanding success, just my hard-earned respect
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You may have outgrown these shoes but I'm not through with them yet
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And I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me
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I just want to make it well known
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if you start thinking tyranny then you¡¯ll be overthrown.
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What Ladder?
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