Your Chosen Misery

[Verse 1]
When the ones you love have let you down
Feel failure and wear the fool's crown
Remember: still, there is a blessing
Within the hardest lesson

[Chorus]
You self-serving, arrogant sycophant
Your selfish acts, thoughtless tasks, and livid rants
Every time you want to make the world go away
Just take an injection of your chosen misery

[Verse 2]
And when I fall
I have the strength to learn the steps
To crawl into the pain
Sometimes, the mirror is cruel
If your mother gave the lesson
Never waste her truth

[Chorus]
You self-serving, arrogant sycophant
Your selfish acts, thoughtless tasks, and livid rants
Every time you want to make the world go away
Just take an injection of your chosen misery

[Bridge]
Yesterday was plagued with rain
Like seven drops of velvet pain
Hail yesterday
Thursday was the day of sin
Friday: silent hell began
Hail yesterday

(Saturday was plagued with rain)
I played the jester perfectly, hail yesterday
(Sunday never came to mind)
I played the jester perfectly when misery delivered me
(Monday's afterthought was blind)
I played the jester perfectly, hail yesterday
(Tuesday stole the show)
I played the jester perfectly when misery delivered me

[Refrain]
Hail yesterday
Hail yesterday

[Outro]
(Tuesday stole the show
When Wednesday killed the golden crow)