You Don't Own a Thing

You don’t own a thing

You don’t own a thing anymore, just look around

Your music, your movies, your phone — rented ground

Cloud holds your pictures, streams hold your songs

Pay every month or it all just gone

House got a mortgage, car got a note

Kids raised by screens while you row that boat

You think you’re free, but you’re just on lease

Keep paying, keep quiet, stay down on your knees

They call it progress, shiny and new

But it’s feudal days wearing a modern suit

Kings owned the land, you worked it for rent

Never your harvest — that’s how it went

Now BlackRock and Vanguard own all the code

Your data’s the toll on their digital road

One wrong word spoken, account locked tight

Compliance is king — that’s the new rite

But hold up, sister, here’s the joke they don’t see

They’re selling you access and calling it free

For things that were never yours to hold

Simplicity’s the only real gold

They can’t cancel what you never uploaded

Can’t repo what you never owed

What’s truly yours lives deep in your soul

This world’s stuff was always just rental —

So I’m building what they can’t control

What they can’t tax, can’t track, can’t delete

Your breath in the morning, dirt under your feet

A song on the porch, a garden that grows

Laughter with kin that nobody knows

They rented your mind — well, good luck with that

I’m walking away wearing my own hat

This ain’t running backward or hiding in fear

It’s remembering freedom was always right here

Every skill learned, every seed in the ground

Every true word spoken turns dependence around

So here’s my unsubscribe, my quiet stand

Simplicity’s the currency in my hand

They can flag my posts, shut my account down cold

But they can’t touch the garden my stories told

You can’t cancel what you never uploaded

Can’t repo what you never owed

What’s truly yours lives deep in your soul

This world’s stuff was always just rental —

So I’m building what they can’t control

Simplicity is the currency

Own your sovereignty

They can’t revoke what they never gave

When you grow your own, you’re no man’s slave

They can’t cancel what you never uploaded

Can’t repo what you never owed

What’s truly yours lives deep in your soul

This world’s stuff was always just rental —

So I’m building what they can’t control

Simplicity is the currency

Own your sovereignty