What Ladder? lyrics

Song information

Artist: Grüvis Malt
Album: Simon

Lyrics

Welcome to the food chain and you are right about ______ (here)
Your music is worth $50 and 6 free beers
And the beer is not a form of payment or hospitality
It's a buffer between you and the insulting reality:
$50 for six guys, two crew, and gas money?!
For four hours of work, heavy lifting, and crowd stunning?
I make less than one dollar an hour for fifty hours a week
Which I give back to the band so we can pay for the cd
That some pyt will no doubt ask for
As a donation to her your not worth my six bucks foundation
And I feel like the stickler?! I remain calm!
And pray that decency will hit her before I do
It's not that I can't grasp the concept of self-promotion
It's just that this "supporter" grossly undervalues our devotion
Most jobs last a year? I'm talking life sentence
Convicted in '95 and been in love ever since

I won't forget how it feels
Bolting a smile on my jaw
Bathing in sacrifice, playing the rug
Art has too many users to be a good drug

It's all wearing thin...these methods of trying to get fat
Feeding off the table scraps of headlining acts
Bumping off our sound check, cutting the already short set
Every lenience is an "inconvenience" every monitor is now a threat
And I'm trying to squeeze out approval from a biased audience
By jumping up and down on hostile ground
It's hard to look relaxed when your big break is being held hostage
Then look thankful while you hustle your gear off stage
To make time for dead air _________________ to build tension in the room
(And here I thought there was enough, our set was over so soon)
And in a way it's justified because "which band is really the draw?"
The one with the label paying for the airplay nonstop!
I'm not demanding success, just my hard-earned respect
You may have outgrown these shoes but I'm not through with them yet
And I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me
I just want to make it well known
If you start thinking tyranny then you'll be overthrown