Won't Lock It Down
Channel: Jonathan Mann
Date: 2015-07-28

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G      Em                  C
For thousands of years
C                          G
The only way to hear
Em             C          D
Music was in the flesh
G                     Em                    C
From rocks and sticks and gourds
C                                 G
To lyres and harpsichords
Em                           D
You couldn’t own music
                              C
So there was no theft

Bm                    C
Music was a moment
G                                     D
And that was the only time
C                                                                          D
You’d ever hear that song played quite like that
For thousands of years
Music’d go in your ears
And the memory of the sound was all that was left

                    Bm
But clever humans
                              C 
You just couldn’t take it
                Em                              D
You had to go and make it complicated 
With your acetate
With your magnetic tape
With your lasers and 1s and 0s 
You just couldn’t wait

                    G
To lock it dow
            D
Lock down 
             Em                 C
Copyright into the ground
            G                      D
Box it up and conceal it
                Em               C
Where nobody can steal it
                 Em              C              D
Where nobody can feel it

I sing for my supper
I sing because I love it
And just because I can have fun with it 
I want you to have this song
And if you want to sing along
I want you to take this tune and run with it

I try not to shout
But I want to be heard
I try to be the best citizen I can be
So when I open up my mouth
And the sound comes tumbling out
I capture it only so I can set it free 
I don’t want to

Lock it down
Won’t lock it down 
If you like the sound
It is yours, you can keep it
What I sow you reap it
If this somehow piques your interest
Well then please be my guest 
Take it change it make it yours 

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