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


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
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


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


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

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 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


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