Fusion

The intermingling of two musics

I say it's the music of the future

And hey, I oughta know

Have you heard my latest album?

It's a masterpiece of fusion

Just a masterpiece of fusion, if I do say so myself

A true collaboration of the heaviest musicians on the planet

That's Sakimoto playing the bamboo flute; he's a monster

And Picho Zuptabuma's on a vira; check it out

And over on the cabassa; who is that on the cabassa?

Oh yeah; that's the guy who drove me in from the airport

I forget his name, but he's a monster too

We're all just monsters of fusion

We're intermingling our musics

In a welter of ethnic confusion

This pretty tune was written by Hans Leo Hassler in 1599

I wrote some words and changed about three notes

Now ASCAP says it's mine

I love constructing albums from objects that I find

From all kinds of folk riffs that're just sort of out there

Nobody owns them, they're in public domain

And the foreign musicians who play those folk riffs

Well, they're just grist for my fevered brain

Mamma don't take my copyright

Gimme that folk riff copyright

Mamma don't take my copyright from me

There've been slurs and innuendos

There've been nasty little comments

I don't bother to respond to them; they roll right off my back

I'm well aware that there's an element you could call exploitation

In the way that I appropriate the cultures of these peoples for my own commercial purposes

But everyone who works for me gets credit, and royalties, and Grammies

And a chance to ride to stardom on my coattails

But hey, let's just remember who's the genius here

Who is the master of Fusion

Fusion

It's a matter of finders keepers

'Cause there ain't no copyrights in fusion

Fusion

We're all just rippin' off each other

In a jungle of ethical confusion

Fusion

And it's a hell of a lot of fun, fun

A hell of a lot of fun, fun

Fusion

I'm thinkin' this song is a labalber (?)