New age of labour

Do yourself a favor

Crowdsource a plan and connect with your neighbour

Stockpile video footage

Mix it up

Act quick before the copyright gets more corrupt

I’m pitching a tent in the creative commons

I wanna eat a steak but i can only buy ramens

When I write a parody, call it fair use

You’re just playing at being obtuse, you gold goose

Navigating these laws, what’s really hard is

Swallowing the fact that you keep the profits from the artist

Garbage top 40, so we make our own station

Got support thanks to the electronic frontier foundation

Output gettin DRM’d by the DMCA

If every phrase has been used then i’ve got nothing to say

This is why we conceptualized the public domain

Omnipresent innovations gettin deep in your brain

New creations rely on the shoulders of giants

Can’t construct disruptive developments minus defiance

True societal progress should be based on alliance

Rock a peer review method like this is hard science

Divisive legal battles only benefit the bigwhigs

Here on the bottom we’re stuck with free craigslist gigs

But there’s hope in the heart of every musician i know

And we put it all out there like a free sideshow

"It's not total freedom

It's not that they would give up all rights associated with their creativity

But many artists recognize that part of the creative process

Is building on other people's creativity freely"

Who owns the future? that’s what we ask

Half full glass, web platforms tap that cask

While the middle class gets buried in a stratified casket

Record execs stack residuals in a basket

Any chance of policy reform, they will mask it

When they drop new singles like a tisket, a tasket

Look at the gumption as they exploit prosumption!

No break from the workday, you better bring your lunch in!

Such a narrow range of options

We’re busking to our coffins

We don’t see any other way to go

But i’m still grinning and running

Hope a new day’s coming

Even though it’s surely coming slow