E-Mail - Melissa Ferrick

You’ve got it all figured out, yeah you’ve got a plan

To get us out of here and wash my hands clean of the tax man

You’ve got it all set up like you’re in charge of fate

You’re gonna make me famous like that’s what i wanted in the first place

Now you’re talking at me like I’ve never done this

Like I’m some kind of 19 year old poet with tits

Well Mister let me tell you I have no illusions about the music business

And ya know if I didn’t like, I’d just quit

But don’t tell me that no one’s listening

Don’t tell me fans don’t care

Don’t you assume they are gonna buy just anything

Cause when we’re out in the clubs listening to music

You’re in a box answering Emails

5 million dollars yeah throw it against the wall

And if it doesn’t stick watch everybody point their fingers at the artist

10 million copies sold, hey kid, you’re a hit!

But at 10% ya know that’s 90 for them

Plus the hotel rooms they destroyed

When you were singing your heart out during south by southwest

South by southwest

Don’t tell me that no one’s listening

Don’t tell me fans don’t care

Don’t you assume they are gonna buy just anything

Cause when we’re out in the clubs listening to music

You’re in a box answering Emails

They’re in the clubs listening to music

You’re in a box pulling out your hair

Yah, it’s a little better, now that I’m on an independent

But you can still hear them saying;

you know a radio hit

Would really validate this artist and

Do you ever think she’s really gonna make it really really

Really really big?

The live work, yeah it’s great

And smiles and crowds are forever

So I kinda just keep saying to myself, ya know

The journey is the destination

The journey is the destination

I said the journey is the destination

The journey is the destination

Don’t tell me no one’s listening

Don’t tell me fans don’t care

Don’t you assume they are gonna buy just anything

Cause when we’re out in the clubs listening to music

You’re in a box answering Emails

They’re in the clubs listening to music

You’re in a box pulling out your hair

We are in the clubs listening to music

And we all know you wish you could be there

I got your telegram