Dying Source

Routine and deadlines
Burying a naïve teenage passion
The commitment to art has been lost
And now it's only obligation… and contracts

Excitement is not needed
Just keep the machine working well
Hungry business brains
Squeezing profits from the fans… on and on

How should we be outraged
By all the uninspired crap?
Dying source
Creativity wouldn’t last so long
So predictable

How should we be affected
As our heroes fade away?
Dying source
Some old bands must retire now
So unavoidable

According to the band members
The new album is already a classic
Typical speech for the press
A commercial strategy… and it works

Songs written in haste
The magic has really gone forever
Once brilliant minds
Now ordinary workers… it's so sad

They used to have
A never ending source of inspiration
No more masterpieces
Everything comes to an end… can't you see?

So stop pretending
That their new stuff is relevant
I'm being insulted as a fan
Don’t underrate my intelligence… shame on you