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

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

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 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

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 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

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 b