Art Is Hard chords by
Cursive
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Key: G minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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C
C

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Cut it out - your self-inflicted pain
G
G

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Is getting too routine
Bm
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The crowds are catching on
Em
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To the self inflicted song
Verse 2
C
C

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Well, here we go again
G
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The art of acting weak
Bm
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Fall in love to fail
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To boost your CD sales
Verse 3
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(And that CD sells - yeah,
what a hit)
You've got to repeat it
You gotta' sink to swim
C
C

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If at first you don't succeed
Verse 4
Bm
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You gotta recreate your misery
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G

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'Cause we all know art is hard
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B
B

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Young artists have got to starve
C
C

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Try, and fail, and try again
Verse 5
Bm
Bm

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The comforts of repetition
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G

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Keep churning out those hits
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B
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'Til it's all the same old shit
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Verse 6
Oh, a second verse!
C
C

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Well, color me fatigued
G
G

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I'm hiding in hte leaves
Bm
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In the CD jacket sleeves
Verse 7
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Tired of entertaining
Some double-dipped meaning
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meaning
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A soft serve analogy
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This drunken angry slur
Verse 8
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In thirty-one flavors fla
vors
You gotta' sink to swim
Immerse yourself in rejection
Verse 9
Regurgitate some sorry tale
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About a boy who sells his love affairs
You gotta' fake the pain
You better make it sting
Verse 10
You're goin' break a long
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When you get on stage
C
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And they scream your name
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C
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"Oh, Cursive is so cool!"
Verse 11
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You gotta sink to swim
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Impersonate greater persons
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'Cause we all know art is hard
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B
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When we don't know who we are
Outro 1
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