Call It Cheating Songtext
von Aria Rivers

You called it cheating before you heard the song
You already had your answer
Before the first note played
You didn′t hate the music until
You learned how it was made
You felt something for a second
Then your pride got in the way
You say it takes no talent, you say it takes no soul
Then why can't everybody
Make something people know?
If it′s just pressing buttons
Go press them and make a hit
If it's really that easy
Why are you still mad at this?
You judge the tool because
You can't judge the result
You call it fake, but you still felt the pulse
I wrote the story
I chose the sound
I shaped the feeling


I built the world around it
That is not cheating
That is direction, that is taste, that is creation
Call it cheating
Call it fake
Say it′s easy
Then do the same
Call it nothing
Call it shame
But you still listened
You still know my name
You think your process makes you more real
Like struggle only counts if it looks the way you feel
You don′t own music because you learned it one way
You don't decide who creates or what people replay
The tool is out there. Everybody can try
So if there′s no vision needed, why don't all of them fly?
A brush doesn′t paint without a hand that can see
A camera doesn't frame what the mind doesn′t dream
I picked the words
I cut the lines
I changed the story a thousand times
I heard what was wrong, I knew what to fix
I turned an idea into something that lives
So call me lazy, call me wrong
But you're still here talking about my song
Call it cheating
Call it fake
Say it's easy
Then do the same
Call it nothing
Call it shame
But you still listened
You still know my name
You′re not angry at the tool, you′re angry at the door
Because people you ignored can create now more and more
You liked the old gate, you liked the old wall
You liked deciding who gets heard at all
But the room got wider and the rules got weak
Now someone without your blessing can still make people speak
You say there's no soul because you don′t like the source
But feeling doesn't ask permission before it runs its course
You say it′s not art because it scares your pride
Because someone found another way
To bring what's inside outside
I′m not replacing anyone. I'm not asking for your seat
I'm just making what I hear and putting it on repeat
You can hate the method. You can hate the name
But if the song connects, then the feeling is the same
Call it cheating
Call it fake
Say it′s easy
Then do the same
Call it nothing
Call it shame
But you still listened
You still know my name
Call it cheating
Call it art
Either way
It left a mark
Say what you want
I′m still creating
You call it cheating
I call it changing
You called it cheating before you heard the song
Now you know the words
So maybe it worked all along