Hey friend,
It's a competition
To see who...
Hates himself the most
Direct statement of the nature of this competition that "It is" according to the title. Yes, many of the annotations will be very dry and obvious like this.
Who...
...ever wins
Indisputably
Gains the right to boast
The only interesting thing here you might not get on your first listen is that the word "indisputably" applies to both lines before and after it: winning indisputably and indisputably gaining the right to boast.
You could say you hate yourself the most
I could say I hate myself the most
More statements about the nature of the competition, but this time in the tone of an advertisement to a potential contestant.
It's a competition
It's a competition
He could say he hates himself the most
She could say she hates herself the most
More statements about the nature of the competition, but this time in the tone of an advertisement to any audience who may want to watch the competition.
It's a competition
It's a competition
Here friend,
It's a competition
You know what for
And the forum is the host
Everyone liked the first competition so much that the elusive "they" decided to make it a series. The people being advertised to about it already know the drill. The forum in this case refers to an online forum, which is a common place for people to unreasonably complain.
We all
Like to say
Our lives are worse
Than most
Everyone wants to be pitied to be thought tough for pushing through whatever problems they may or may not have.
But are they really?
Do you really feel the worst?
It might be someone else,
but if you are, then...
This is probably the least obvious lyric in the whole song. The point of it is to say that the people who actually have it the worst are rarely the complainers.
You could say you hate yourself the most
I could say I hate myself the most
It's a competition
It's a competition
He could say he hates himself the most
She could say she hates herself the most
It's a competition
It's a competition
Let me have self loathing
(No, I won't let you have self loathing)
What, do you think I'm lying?
(I do think that you're lying)
Do you think it's popular to hate oneself?
(I think you think that but won't admit it)
Well, what if I've got nothing else going for me?
(Well, in that case, I'd say...)
This is a conversation between a "contestant" and a watcher (in parentheses). In case you haven't noticed, the extreme example used for the form of suffering to complain about is self-loathing. The watcher, who is one of few who can see this whole competition for what it truly is, tries to convince the contestant, who is perhaps friend or family to him, to withdraw from the competition. Eventually, our watcher who sees the truth gives in and goes along with the motions of the competition.
You could say you hate yourself the most
I could say I hate myself the most
It's a competition
It's a competition
He could say he hates himself the most
She could say she hates herself the most
It's a competition
It's a competition
Everything will be okay,
Everything will be alright
Everything will be okay,
Everything will be alright
This is the truth-seeing watcher speaking to his contestant friend in one last ditch effort to get him to withdraw; it isn't worth it, everything will be fine.
Look at me, man!
My life sucks!
Aren't you looking at me?
Pay attention! Agh!
And this is the contestant realizing that the competition really isn't worth winning, now shouting at everyone to celebrate that he appears to have it worse than anyone else.