Charity Case - MC Frontalot

Oh, man!

I try to dodge fans but they keep swarming

MC Frontalot’s heart’s huge;

let’s have a housewarming

I love you so damn much I’ll sell you CDs

I’m greedy to get loved back like Ally Sheedy

In WarGames.

I got more sayings and turns of phrase

In my communist handbook than in my — damn, what’d

I do with my ledger?

I’ll never get paid now!

That distributor promised me checks but didn’t say how

He was going to locate the Front

It’s the anonymity I’m a little bitty bit late to shun

Hate to run;

can’t be tardy to my rally:

«Art Must Be Free» is the decree.

The finalé

Is my lecture on the evils of the R-I-double-A

How they’re going to sue you every single time you hit play

They’re lame!

Must revolt!

What’s that you say?

Kids are pirating the Frontalot?

Oh no, I got betrayed!

It’s true:

Frontalot’s destitute

I need you

To buy my CD so I could buy food

I been a charity case to my fan base for years:

In tears at my show, «somebody buy me a ride home.»

Now I’ve got something I can barter for services

Don’t let the major labels get word of this

I’m girderless, free falling towards riches;

Going to sell so many CDs that I can afford britches

And a shirt, and a hat to go with it

I get specific — ‘cause my fantasy is that vivid

I’m going to buy gadgets that don’t do anything but beep

And blink, then I’ll go out in public & buy drinks —

But it’s contingent on your ponying up

Wait, you got my record on Bittorrent?

Fuck!

Seems like there’s no DRM but I’ll explode

Your computer like COBRA done to GI Joe

On the episode about computer viruses

Oh look, there’s the ledger: overflowing with minuses

My spinelessness in the face of the starvation

Projected by my cash flow erodes the hesitation

I once harbored as regards the tune vending

If only the nerd kids' aversion to spending

Money on data got inverted somehow

I’d be making my way through all the dollars with a plow

But instead I’m down on the ground on my knees

Begging y’all to believe my CD isn’t free

Frontalot needs food badly

Is that a popsicle?

I — was just, no I mean clearly it’s a popsicle

Were you gonna finish it or were you gonna throw it out?

Cause… no cause if- I mean if you were going to throw it out

Then I would eat the rest of it

I was just saying but if you’re not going to throw it out

Then you know go ahead and-

I mean you should finish it quickly

Cause it’s dripping and you’re wasting it I mean

And it is- you know it’s lime

Which is like my favorite flavor of popsicle