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Jesse Welles

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Well I really don't care if I ain't western as f*ck
'cause I dont wear a hat and I dont drive a truck
I made everything but a living, my voice gotten used
I ain't selling my soul for a couple of views

Payola for thee, Payola for playlists,
Blue check-marks, and follows and streams

We'll license your song, we'll give you 60 percent
We'll advance you some dough so you got money to spend
Put it all toward promotion when she blows up big
High-five our fat asses with our 40 percent

Payola for thee, Payola for playlists,
Blue check-marks, and follows and streams

The folks in the business no older than me
That ain't never done nothing but email and drink
And the coke in the kitchen, it ain't Coca-Cola
And they'll swear and declare, "Payola Payola"

Payola for thee, brought to you by nepotism
And veiled in authority
Payola for thee, is the Wizard of Oz
And the curtains that do-re-mi-mi-mi


- guitar solo -


I ain't never been viral but I've had the flu
It was hard to monitize but I made it through
And when the 'rona came and the labels went home
We went back to Starbucks; they took PPP loans

Payola for thee, Payola for playlists,
Blue check-marks, and follows and streams
Payola for thee, is the Wizard of Oz
And the curtains that do-re-mi-mi

From the cowboy cosplay of Music City
to the LA cyborgs and New York pretties
Austin City's got no limits for DMT dreams
It's all bought and paid for, it ain't as it seems

Payola for thee, its the vending machine
Of the music - industry
Payola for thee, is the Wizard of Oz
And the curtains that do-re-mi-mi

It's a shallow money trench, Thompson's correct
Sailed through an ocean of shit and you still get wrecked

And Payola for thee, brought to you by nepotism
And veiled in authority
Payola for thee is the vending machine
Of the music - industry
Payola for thee, is the Wizard of Oz
And the curtains that do-re-mi-mi-mi

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