I heard a song once and it was beautiful and it was free and it was my dream   I lost my housing at the sweet young age of fourteen   I heard a song on the radio, it was my dream   I found the value of a song walking in the rain cold and alone with no place to go   I found the value of a song singing to myself   Just make it through the night, keep awake till the sunlight   It don't matter who sold 6 million   It don't matter who made 6 million   What you call success I call excess   What I'd call important is relevance   I heard a song once it was by Husker Du   They tried to sell their songs for a million dollars   They probably never knew that they kept one scared kid alive   They traded gold for what they had inside   All my friends now now on TV   All my friends now sold what they love for money   All my friends now are bought and sold so easily   All my friends now think they can afford not to be free