Exactly What You'd Think

from Getting Worse by Better Things

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This song tackles the feeling you get when you’re reaching out to someone for help. Sometimes, as much as you hear “everything will be fine in the end” you can’t quite wrap your mind around that.

Musically we’re really happy with how different this song is from a lot of our work. Really heavy, some odd time signatures, tons of distortion, and big beautiful noise to cap off the ending. - Mark

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If everyone gets what they deserve in the end
Why am I talking talking in circles
Repeating myself again
And if everyone gets what they deserve, we'd all be fine
But our dreams are in our sleep this time (and our nightmares are alive)

Everyone's trying to tell me that I'm strong
But in all honesty, I'm the weakest link in a chain of uncertainty

If everyone gets what they deserve in the end
Why am I talking talking in circles
Repeating myself again
And if everyone gets what they deserve, we'd all be fine
But our dreams are in our sleep this time (and our nightmares are alive)

Why does it feel like this life is over when it's only just begun
Stripped away and left for dead is not what I pictured at twenty-one
(at twenty-one)

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from Getting Worse, released August 19, 2016

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Better Things Burlington, Vermont

Better Things new album "Getting Worse" is a culmination of over a year of work between Better Things and their producer, Ryan Cohen (of Robot Dog Studio) which showcases the band's appetite for raw emotion, catchy harmonies, and the complete diversity that their musical collaboration represents.

The first single from Getting Worse, "25 Miles Per Hour Blues" is available now. ... more

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