Lyrics The Science of Selling Yourself Out -

The Science of Selling Yourself Out

It’s hard to understand
Why you change your sound to get more fans
But you know that some would never sell at all
If they thought you were a ska band so you say
We’re not cool enough for your music video
We’re not cool enough for your fucking MTV
But wait, Mr. Record Exec
Don’t you hang that phone up yet
'Cause we’re willing to compromise our integrity
Yeah, yeah, yeah
We’ll be a little more pop-punk
We’ll be a little less ska
It’s like we never had a trombone in the band at all
Woah
'Cause all the kids like pop-punk
And nobody likes ska
It isn’t 1998
Yeah
Wonder what it takes (wonder what it takes)
To make a deal with Less Than Jake
Did they say
We’ll get the Gilmore Girl for you
But you gotta promise, no more saxophone, guys, come on
Cut that shit out
But that video came out great (That video? came out okay)
Got on TRL for one whole day
And you know
That all your biggest fans today
Were definitely watching TRL in 2003
We’re not cool enough for your music video
We’re not cool enough for your fucking MTV
But wait, Mr. Record Exec
Don’t you hang that phone up yet
'Cause we’re willing to compromise our integrity
Yeah, yeah, yeah
We’ll be a little more pop-punk
We’ll be a little less ska
It’s like we never had a trombone in the band at all
Woah
'Cause all the kids like pop-punk (meow)
And nobody likes ska
It isn’t 1998
Yeah
We’re not cool enough for your music video
We’re not cool enough for your fucking MTV
But wait, Mr. Record Exec
Don’t you hang that phone up yet
We’re not cool enough for your music video
We’re not cool enough for your fucking MTV
But wait, Mr. Record Exec
Hold the phone, stop the press
'Cause we’re willing to compromise our integrity
Yeah, yeah, yeah
We’ll be a little more pop-punk, woah
It’s like we never had a trombone in the band at all, woah
We’ll try to be less ska
Don’t you wish it were 1998, yeah