I Wanna Get Better Lyrics

Lyric discussion by BrookeN 

Cover art for I Wanna Get Better lyrics by Bleachers

So in an interview he said that this song was about him as a teenager. His sister died, so when he refers to a woman that's who he's talking to. After her death, he went down hill and got involved in drugs, (panicked at the acid test). Until his sister appeared to him in a dream and told him that he needs to stop and get better: "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." I think the car is himself: "So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars" , "So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself". And then after his sister tells him to get better he kills his old self: "So I put a bullet where I shoulda 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" again with the car representing himself.

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