> People want lyrics. They don't want to pay for them

You're wrong. We pay for everything all the time.

We pay for home internet (not cheap!). We pay for various subscriptions and streaming services. We pay for online tools. We pay for a TON of stuff.

And we still get hit by tons of obnoxious, invasive ads regardless of how much we pay. And people call us pirates if we want to install and adblocker. Advertisers like to violate us; it's their business model.

Stop parroting their lines, and stop defending bullshit.