I Wanna Get Better

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I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers

About I Wanna Get Better

"I Wanna Get Better" is a song by American indie pop act Bleachers. Written and produced by frontman Jack Antonoff and John Hill, it was released as the lead single from Bleachers' debut studio album "Strange Desire" on February 17, 2014, through RCA Records. "I Wanna Get Better" topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, becoming the band's first number-one single, and also reached the top ten of the Hot Rock Songs chart. Its accompanying music video stars Antonoff as a therapist and was directed by his then girlfriend .

I Wanna Get Better Lyrics

[00:09.80] Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room
[00:12.91] Calling my name and I follow just to find you
[00:15.42] I trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weather
[00:19.83] And I've trained myself to give up on the past 'cause
[00:22.79] I frozen time between hearses and caskets
[00:25.48] Lost control when I panicked at the acid test
[00:28.37] I wanna get better
[00:29.95] While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines
[00:33.70] I was losing my mind because the love, the love, the love, the love, the love
[00:37.53] That I gave wasted on a nice face
[00:40.94] In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet
[00:43.36] Counting seconds through the night and got carried away
[00:46.29] So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars
[00:49.18] "Hey, I wanna get better!"
[00:50.80] I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
[00:55.99] I wanna get better, better, better, better
[00:59.76] I wanna get better
[01:00.94] I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
[01:06.00] I wanna get better, better, better, better
[01:09.99] I wanna get better
[01:10.43] I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling
[01:13.40] Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling
[01:15.66] Of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was
[01:19.19] Now I'm a stranger
[01:20.47] And I miss the days of a life still permanent
[01:23.69] Mourn the years before I got carried away
[01:26.74] So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself
[01:29.30] "Hey, I wanna get better!"
[01:31.11] I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
[01:36.29] I wanna get better, better, better, better
[01:40.01] I wanna get better
[01:41.22] I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
[01:46.40] I wanna get better, better, better, better
[01:50.33] I wanna get better
[01:52.05] 'Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi
[01:54.70] I'm screaming from my bedroom window
[01:57.52] Even if it's gonna kill me
[02:01.66]
[02:31.72] Woke up this morning early before my family
[02:34.45] From this dream where she was trying to show me
[02:37.02] How a life can move from the darkness
[02:39.76] She said to get better
[02:41.30] So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet
[02:44.09] And I crash my car cause I wanna get carried away
[02:47.65] That's why I'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself
[02:50.38] "Hey, I wanna get better!"
[02:52.19] I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
[02:57.35] I wanna get better, better, better, better
[03:01.04] I wanna get better
[03:02.14] I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
[03:07.44] I wanna get better, better, better, better
[03:11.24] I wanna get better
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From the album: Happiness Forever