The Industry

[Verse 1]

I thought that it was us against the world

But now it's me against something so big and abstract

That I can't tell what it is

All the while you're out there, grinding on some poor girl

Who is backstage at the 6.8 rock fest

[Chorus 1]

I thought that you'd be on our side

I tuned it out when I heard you shit-talking our friends

Well, our world's in free fall and we're terrified

And everyone's just out to grab what they can get

[Verse 2]

I thought I had a bunch of friends, I guess

I just had people pissed at me for shit

And the cheaper that the music starts to get

It's like they're trying to make us cheep along with it

[Chorus 2]

I watched you turn into your very opposite

Into everything we were trying to reject

And I figured you had had enough of it

Watching the whole world turn while all you earned was respect

[Verse 3]

And look at us; just two dumb country hicks

Trying to bum-rush that VIP

Up there, out where the beautiful people live

But is that ever who we even wanted to be?

[Chorus 3]

Do you remember, baby, back in '96?

When some record was enough to make you raise your fist?

When some singer'd make you sure that you exist?

Well, I never thought I'd feel like that again

Just let go

[Outro]

I had to let it go

I gotta gotta let it go

Gotta let it go

All right, man?