cut it out your self inflicted pain is getting too routine the crowds are catching on to the self inflicted song well here we go again the art of acting weak fall in love to fail to boost your cd sales and that cd sells you ve got to repeat it you gotta sink to swim if at first you don t you don t succeed you gotta recreate your misery cause we all know art is hard young artists have gotta starve try and fail and try again the comforts of repetition keep churning out those hits till it s all the same old shit oh a second verse well color me fatigued i m hiding in the leaves in the cd jacket sleeves tired of entertaining some double dipped meaning a soft serve analogy this drunken angry slur in thirty one flavors you gotta sink gotta sink gotta sink to swim immerse yourself in rejection regurgitate some sorry tale about a boy who sells his love affairs you gotta fake fake fake the pain you better make make make it sting you re gonna break break break a leg when you get on stage and they scream your name oh cursive is so cool  you gotta sink gotta sink gotta sink to swim impersonate greater persons cause we all know art is hard when we don t know who we are hey hey hey hey 