[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