[00:18.801]Cut it out - your self-inflicted pain
[00:22.523]is getting too routine
[00:24.916]the crowds are catching on - to the self-inflicted song
[00:29.423]Well, here we go again - the art of acting weak
[00:34.744]Fall in love to fail - to boost your CD sales
[00:41.378]And that CD sells - yeah, what a hit
[00:44.566]You've got to repeat it
[00:46.427]you gotta' sink to swim
[00:47.761]
[00:48.281]If at first you don't succeed
[00:49.628]you gotta recreate your misery
[00:52.815]'cause we all know art is hard
[00:55.475]young artists have gotta starve
[00:56.541]Try, and fail, and try again
[00:58.655]the comforts of repetition
[01:01.048]Keep churning out those hits
[01:02.908]'til it's all the same old shit
[01:05.304]
[01:14.063]Oh, a second verse!
[01:15.924]Well, color me fatigued
[01:18.585]I'm hiding in the leaves
[01:20.710]in the CD jacket sleeves
[01:23.093]tired of entertaining
[01:25.490]some double-dipped meaning
[01:27.612]a soft serve analogy
[01:31.603]This drunken angry slur
[01:32.657]in thirty-one flavors
[01:45.671]You gotta' sink to swim
[01:46.737]immerse yourself in rejection
[01:48.064]regurgitate some sorry tale
[01:50.192]about a boy who sells his love affairs
[01:53.381]You gotta' fake the pain
[01:55.245]you better make it sting
[01:57.624]you're gonna' break a leg
[01:59.220]when you get on stage
[02:01.350]and they scream your name
[02:09.312]"Oh, Cursive is so cool!"
[02:10.910]
[02:11.439]You gotta sink to swim
[02:13.036]impersonate greater persons
[02:15.428]'cause we all know art is hard
[02:17.555]when we don't know who we are