I wrote a song 

That everyone loved 

With an acoustic guitar 

And a rhyming thesauras 



And I found an angle 

That no one had thought of 

The story wrapped 

in an undeniable chorus



And everyone fell in love with that song 

It must be the way that the melody 

marries the lyrics 

someone should hear this 

cut one is the song 



I booked a few gigs 

At every regional bar 

And sold thousands of copies 

From the trunk of my car 



An underground journalist 

said it was hot 

And it could really take off 

If track 2 got a shot 



He wrote I fell in love with that song 

It must be the way that the melody 

marries the lyrics 

someone should hear this 

cut two is the song



I landed a deal 

They loved my cd 

A&R was excited about 

Track number 3



But said the snare was too loud 

And guitar too distorted 

Let's get big named producer 

And just re-record it



Cause we all believe that is the song 

It must be the way that the melody 

Marries the lyric 

The public should hear it 

Cut 3 is the song 



The producer had never heard 

Demos this great 

And there was just something special 

About 5, 6 and 8



The record execs 

said the research was in 

they had made up their mind 

they're now goin' with track 10 



cause everyone fell in love with that song 

we couldn't believe they were serious 

they had to be jokin' no the public had spoken 

cut 10 is the one 



so the marketing geniuses 

developed a plan 

to spend lots of money 

and package the band 



Hit the road in a bus 

The show started to gel 

but we couldn't recoup 

with no records to sell 



but the fans fell in love with the songs 

they said where can we find the cd 

we just downloaded 3...free on kazaa 

la la la la... 



And radio said if a song had potential 

Cut 4 surely had it 

but nobody had the balls to add it 



So the record came out 

And it sat on the shelf 

There was no need to talk about songs 9 thru 12 

After the whole thing was over and done 

The public still talked about song number 1



Everyone fell in love with that song 

It must be the way that the melody marries the lyrics 

But no one would hear it 

They all fell in love with that song 

Yeah I may have written 

The greatest most passionate song no one's ever heard 

We should have just covered freebird