FightThePatent.com calls it quits

[sarettah]

"I got the news today
that you refused to play
Cause you never made number one

But it's not just the words
but the deeds that are heard
When all is said and done

Kings take their crowns
They melt them all down
Trying to get the gold out

You went to hell and
even when you weren't selling
You never ever sold out

You weren't no leader
you were more like a bleeder
Who was trying to cry for us all

You weren't no sage
But your sense of outrage
sounded like a trumpet call

Fifteen years ago
in the old folky show
you were just one voice in the crowd

But now with so few singing
your voice would have benn ringing
out 'bout twice as loud

There but for fortune
say a small circle of friends

Some may see the changes
so few see the end

The pleasures of the harbor
have come to you at last

You may not be marching anymore
But the parades still rolling past

I'm not taking the blame
that we killed you
you know you did that to yourself

But its kind of a shame
That you played that game
Cause you were better than anyone else

One shot of your bottle
Got you full throttle
It was the friend that was always there

But your greatest gift
and the curse you lived with
was that you could always care

There but for fortune
say a small circle of friends

Some may see the changes
so few see the end

The pleasures of the harbor
have come to you at last

You may not be marching anymore
But the parades still rolling past"

(hc cica '76)