I Wanna Get Better Lyrics

Hey I hear a voice of the preacher from the backroom

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 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

'Till I saw your face

I wanna get better, better, better, better

I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken

'Till I wanted to change

I wanna get better, better, better, better

I wanna get better

I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling

Cut out their pictures, and I chase that feeling of 18 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

'Till I saw your face

I wanna get better, better, better, better

I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken

'Till 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 gon' kill me!

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 should've put a 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

'Till I saw your face

I wanna get better, better, better, better

I wanna get better

I didn't know I was broken

'Till I wanted to change

I wanna get better, better, better, better

I wanna get better