Art Is Hard

Tim Kasher seems to be describing the act of "selling out". That to "boost your cd sales", you have to be someone that you're not, you have to conform to the ideals of everyone else. You're no longer putting out albumns full of emotion that you personally feel, you're putting forth an albumn that will only please the public. In other words, Kasher's criticising artists who make music for money, instead of because they love it.

I dedicate this song to Conor Oberst.

tim's saying how when you write a song or get on stage you have to re-enact your pain. he's pretty much mocking that whole idea.

Tim Kasher seems to be describing the act of "selling out". That to "boost your cd sales", you have to be someone that you're not, you have to conform to the ideals of everyone else. You're no longer putting out albumns full of emotion that you personally feel, you're putting forth an albumn that will only please the public. In other words, Kasher's criticising artists who make music for money, instead of because they love it.

I think that is not about selling out,is about self-loathing,and is self-ironic.He criticizes himself.The selling out theory doesn't sit well with me,I think these lyrics are deeper than that.

i think this song is about how, when you write something personal to get something off your chest or whatever, you have to reenact what the song meant to you for stage show (possibly aimed at dashboard confessional who cries during his songs). after a while, it all starts to become an act of showmanship instead of an act of actual emotional significance. or maybe it's the public's want for artists to do something like that (cry) on stage when they sing their songs that are "touching," and their want of heartbreaking lyrics (artists have got to starve). i know the emo crowd loves that.

I like the break a leg line. break a leg as you wish to actors before they go on stage, but it also links well to the first verse :

cut it out your self-inflicted pain is getting too routine the fans are catching on to the self-afflicted song

nice. I think that reading a couple interviews would help you to understand the song better its not about selling out or conor oberst or anything remotely similar.

just a couple corrections on the lyrics.

it's -the crowds are catching on

the anabashed weak -is-The art of acting weak

yeah, the artists have gotta starve-is-young artists have gotta starve

double deaf meaning-is-double dipped meaning

yeah, thirty one letters-is-in thirty one flavors

make the scene-is-make it sting

oh kasher, he's so cool-is-oh cursive is so cool

the person the grave to exist-is-impersonate greater persons

and we don't know who we are-is-when we don't know who we are

Isnt this song just as much about him as it is about bands like dashboard and bright eyes? I mean a lot of Cursive's songs are about how Kasher's wife left him and fucked him over.

i really think this song is about both things. meaning, about the showmanship and fakeness of emotion and self pity (i.e. dashboard, emo) but also, realizing at the same time, that sometimes that he himself does that. and he is really bad and bitter about that part of himself.