girl: Hey I hear the voice
Of the 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
boy: 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 a night
And got carried away
So now I'm standing on the overpass
Screaming at the cars hey
I wanna get better
girl: I didn't know I was lonely
Till I saw your face
boy: I wanna get better
Better better better
I wanna get better
girl: I didn't know I was broken
Till I wanted to change
boy: I wanna get better
Better better better
I wanna get better
girl: 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
boy: 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
girl: 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
boy: I wanna get better
Better better better
chorus: 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
girl: 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
boy: So I put a bullet
Where I should have 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
girl: I didn't know I was lonely
Till I saw your face
boy: I wanna get better
Better better better
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken
Till I wanted to change
boy: I wanna get better
Better better better
I wanna get better