I Wanna Get Better (MTV Unplugged)

Hey I hear the voice of a 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 frozen 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 the night and got carried away

So now 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

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

You know that I woke up this morning early before my family

From this dream she was trying to show me

How a life can move from the darkness

Yeah she said to get better

So I put a bullet where I should 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 what

I wanna get better better better better

I wanna get better