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