Pay 2 Play Lyrics

Nobody's coming to the show

They'd rather listen to emo bands

From two-thousand-0

From a laptop on a stage

Where some dude just presses play

These kids engage with a storied yesterday

We haven't passed our prime

Nobody cares about your band

That dude only asked you to play

So you think he's the man

He's an asshole racketeer

He'll try to pay you in cheap beer then disappear

So clear the stage

'Cause only cover bands get paid

They don't make 'em like them used to

But we have no one to blame

We can live in our nostalgia

But things will never feel the same

'Cause by the time that we realize they do

The feeling fades

Into a bitter sense of resignation

As I recite clichés

So how can everyone be has-beens

If no one's ever been

We haven't passed our prime