David Rovics - The Pirate Radio Song lyrics

This is how it started, it's not hard to understand. From coast-to-coast they're lying at a CEO's command. From Nationalist Public Radio, to C.N.N. and N.B.C. Big Brother spewing misinformation from the dis-information ministry. They say the economy is booming, we hear the homeless beggars cry. They say we help poor countries, we see bombs falling from the sky. Reality doesn't exist, they're trying to say, but some of us decided there is another way. Seize the airways! Seize the time! 'Cause lying to the people is the real crime. When it's all owned by corporations and theirs is the only word, we will seize the airwaves, speak freely, and be heard. Someone got a transmitter started up a station, then the idea spread right across the nation. Like the land and water, the air must be free. So let us shout together, "fu*k THE F.C.C." (Chorus) And we'll do it all together, in a gra**roots-style, tearing down the fences through-out this whole square mile. It's the new town meeting, it's the way the news should be. The rulers call it chaos, we say it's democracy. So when you turn on the radio and you've had it with this sh**, from 88 to 107 makes you want to have a fit. When you listen to the music and it's all the same pop songs, start up a pirate station because that's where you belong. (Chorus)