copyright kills

[Verse 1]
There's a cure behind the curtain
Locked away with lawyer's ink
They got a patent on your breathing
While your mama's at the brink
Call it business, call it progress
I just call it what it is
When the dying wait for mercy
And the living pay for his

[Chorus]
Copyright kills
Nobody pays the bill
When money's standing there between the heart and pill
Justice ain't for sale
And love don't have a price
How many more we gonna lose
Before we make this right

[Verse 2]
There's a mother down in Brownsville
Watching fever take her son
The medicine exists somewhere
But the lawyers say she's done
They tell her it's the system
That it keeps the research going
But all she sees is profit
While her baby's blood stops flowing

[Chorus]
Copyright kills
Nobody pays the bill
When money's standing there between the heart and pill
Justice ain't for sale
And love don't have a price
How many more we gonna lose
Before we make this right

[Bridge]
They outlawed the generic
The poor can't buy a breath
When healing's owned by empires
Then patents deal out death
Open hands could save us all
But greed has locked the gate

[Final Chorus]
Copyright kills
Nobody pays the bill
When profit is the poison
Who's dying for the thrill
Tear down those papers
Break those seals
Let the cure run free
Copyright kills
Copyright kills

[Outro]
The cure should be for everyone
Not just the ones who pay
No law should stop a beating heart
No law should work that way