Joseph Thompson - What Does Your Music Mean? Lyrics

Not here to be famous
Not here to be a star
Not here to make it big
Not here just to go far
Just wanna write about the things I care about
I'm here cos I love it not for the payout
Not here to be told what to do
Cos you're fake I don't have to be too
But why choose me when they can choose you
You can sell a song but they can sell you
So you sing about people you've never met
Try and empathise with things that you don't get
Decades on and it's never a new set
A broken record collecting a pay check

What Does Your Music Mean
When you were designed by a marketing team
And What Does Your Music Mean
When you sold your soul when you were just 19

Everything was better in 1975
You could pay five pounds to see your fave band live
Put on rose tinted glasses so you can look at the past
And give x an excuse to only play 90s bands
I've got cover ups inside my cover up
Normalise the problems till we think they're good
Talk about progress as if we've made it
Whilst groping still occurs in your bands safe spaces

Choking by LG
Punching in pregnancy
Unfair streaming fees
Assault behind the scenes
Deny every rape charge
Leave them still at large
Sell your soul it's not hard
For ticket tout surcharge
Overdose at 27
Suicide on the gram
Not saying I'm a better man
But we need to make it better man

What Does Our Music Mean
Control the spotlight what shall we make them see
And What Does Our Music Mean
Surely more than sex drugs and making green
And What Does My Music Mean
I Can't change the world with some vocals and keys
And What Does My Music Mean
If no one tries it how will we ever see