I Wanna Get Better Tab by Bleachers

Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher

from the back room

Calling my name and I follow just to find you

I trace the faith

to a broken down television

And put on the weather

And I've trained myself to give up on the past

'cause I froze in time

between hearses and caskets

Lost control when I panicked

at the acid test

I wanna get better

While my friends were getting high

and chasing girls down parkway lines

I was losing my mind because the love,

the love, the love, the love, the love

That I gave wasted on a nice face

In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet

Counting seconds through the night

and got carried away

So now I'm standing on the overpass

screaming at the cars

"Hey, I wanna get

(better!") I didn't know I was lonely

'til I saw your face

I wanna get better,

better, better, better

I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken

'til I wanted to change

I wanna get better,

better, better, better

I wanna get...

I go up to my room

and there's girls on the ceiling

Cut out their pictures

and I chase that feeling

Of an eighteen year old

who didn't know what loss was

Now I'm a stranger

And I miss the days of a life still permanent

Mourn the years before I got carried away

So now I'm staring at the interstate

screaming at myself

"Hey, I wanna get

(better!") I didn't know I was lonely

'til I saw your face

I wanna get better,

better, better, better

I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken

'til I wanted to change

I wanna get better,

better, better, better

I wanna get...

Better, 'cause I'm sleeping

in the back of a taxi

I'm screaming from my bedroom window

Even if it's gonna

kill me

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Woke up this morning early before my family

From this dream

where she was trying to show me

How a life can move from the darkness

She said to get better

So I put a bullet where I shoulda put helmet

And I crash my car

'cause I wanna get carried away

That's why I'm standing on the overpass

screaming at myself

"Hey, I wanna get

(better!") I didn't know I was lonely

'til I saw your face

I wanna get better,

better, better, better

I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken

'til I wanted to change

I wanna get better,

better, better, better

I wanna get

(better)