Better Me Lyrics

The self-help books are piling up quick

They sell me the carrot

They sell me the stick

A pill, an elixir, a new way to think

A vain attempt to build a better me

With complex guilt and a glass half full of spilt milk

How am I supposed to build a better me

Go on, get with it, roll up your sleeves

You could widen your smile and whiten your teeth

In man's search for meaning

I'm lost in the weeds

I can barely see the front row

Stuck in the nose bleeds

Life in the cheap seats

The major flaw in my chief regret

Is that I'm not somebody else

So give me hell or give me help

Or something in-between

It's the great white whale for the black sheep

It's a nice day for a better me

The master blueprints

I tore a hole in them

These TED Talks and deep thoughts sound like condolences

There's no room left in this crowded city

The one in my head where the neighbors keep screaming

It's the inkblot test and the box of Wheat Thins

Pulling the plug on the power of now

My untethered soul stole the car and left town

I've thrown out my back trying to boost self-esteem

Tell that blind watchmaker I'm missing pieces

The major flaw in my chief regret

Is that I'm not somebody else

So give me hell or give me help

Or something in-between

I'm throwing brick shots at my life goals

Burn the house down, baby, with this ray of hope

I get motion-sick so I missed the boat

That was years ago

Years ago

Break the rock

Bend the steel

What's the odds that I'll succeed

Trying to re-re-invent the wheel

It's not you electric blue

It's better me

Break the rock, bend the steel

What's the odds that I'll succeed

Trying to re-re-invent the wheel

It's not you

Better me