From 7ddbb5ea17258aeae92b9bb8d7a3491f23c963a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: St33v Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:09:46 +1100 Subject: add Eli Mercer The Message --- .../eli/message/sun/lyrics-copystrikeSun.txt | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/track.eno | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 105 insertions(+) create mode 100644 st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/lyrics-copystrikeSun.txt create mode 100644 st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/track.eno (limited to 'st33vRecords/eli/message/sun') diff --git a/st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/lyrics-copystrikeSun.txt b/st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/lyrics-copystrikeSun.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7164a93 --- /dev/null +++ b/st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/lyrics-copystrikeSun.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +[VERSE 1 – bright, earnest, strummy guitar] +I’d like to share a little tune +With everyone around +A melody that drifts like wind +No owner to be found + +[VERSE 2 – gentle choir joins, smiling like a marketing department] +I’d like to hum a simple line +That everybody knows +A song that lived before the laws +And every time it grows + +[CHORUS – full advertising-choir sincerity, arms open on a hillside] +You can’t copystrike the sun +Or trademark every star +You can’t put fences ’round the sky +To tell us where we are + +You can’t copyright the rain +Or patent falling snow +But you wanna lock music in a vault +To sell it back for more + +[VERSE 3 – a single child’s voice, devastatingly pure] +I’d like to teach the world to sing without a licence key +A chorus made of breath and time +Completely Dee R. Em - free + +[BRIDGE – soft key change, wholesome as freshly baked ideology] +Let’s take the locks off every mind +And open every ear +A song that wants to wander +Should be something we revere + +[CHORUS – triumphantly naïve, like peace-through-beverage] +You can’t copystrike the sun +Or watermark the dawn +You can’t tell forests who can hear +The sparrows’ morning song + +You can’t own culture’s spark +Or rent out wonder’s flame +And you can’t sue inspiration +Just for whispering your name + +[OUTRO – gentle children’s chorus over swelling strings] +So let the music move +Wherever hearts are spun +For nobody can claim the light +You can’t copystrike the sun \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/track.eno b/st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/track.eno new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f8470f --- /dev/null +++ b/st33vRecords/eli/message/sun/track.eno @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +more_label: Lyrics + +--more + +[VERSE 1 – bright, earnest, strummy guitar] +I’d like to share a little tune +With everyone around +A melody that drifts like wind +No owner to be found + +[VERSE 2 – gentle choir joins, smiling like a marketing department] +I’d like to hum a simple line +That everybody knows +A song that lived before the laws +And every time it grows + +[CHORUS – full advertising-choir sincerity, arms open on a hillside] +You can’t copystrike the sun +Or trademark every star +You can’t put fences ’round the sky +To tell us where we are + +You can’t copyright the rain +Or patent falling snow +But you wanna lock music in a vault +To sell it back for more + +[VERSE 3 – a single child’s voice, devastatingly pure] +I’d like to teach the world to sing without a licence key +A chorus made of breath and time +Completely Dee R. Em - free + +[BRIDGE – soft key change, wholesome as freshly baked ideology] +Let’s take the locks off every mind +And open every ear +A song that wants to wander +Should be something we revere + +[CHORUS – triumphantly naïve, like peace-through-beverage] +You can’t copystrike the sun +Or watermark the dawn +You can’t tell forests who can hear +The sparrows’ morning song + +You can’t own culture’s spark +Or rent out wonder’s flame +And you can’t sue inspiration +Just for whispering your name + +[OUTRO – gentle children’s chorus over swelling strings] +So let the music move +Wherever hearts are spun +For nobody can claim the light +You can’t copystrike the sun +--more -- cgit v1.3