Do Better

Album: Say Anything (2009)
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  • Life is not a spark in space
    An episode of Will & Grace
    Controversial yet mundane
    Debra's messing with your brain

    Even scientologists
    Know there's more to all of this
    Search the ruins for trap doors
    Wonder what you're put here for

    Simple as a hint of gas
    Climbing nostrils as you pass
    Making Harvard graduates feel childish when they laugh at it

    Climb the rungs to kingdom come
    Sour patch to acid tongue
    Are you opposed to having fun you clench the world between your bun

    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)
    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)

    Your life is always the post of something else
    Where's the present?
    The way that you present yourself
    And it's disgusting how little that you try
    The existential equivalent of pink eye

    Drink alone and watch TV
    Your'e expecting harmonies
    To tap yout tune with silver spoons
    The anthem of impending doom

    Guiding Satan's steady hand
    Forcing Beatles to disband
    It's eco-freaks and drama queens
    The young at heart know what I mean

    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)
    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)

    You could do better
    Better than that
    You're a fraud
    Thank god you learnt to keep your shirt on
    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world

    You burn so brightly
    You burn so brightly in the dark
    You burn so brightly
    You burn so
    You burn so

    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)
    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)

    You could do better
    Better than that
    You're a fraud
    Thank god you learnt to keep your shirt on
    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)
    You could do better
    You could do better
    You could be the greatest man in the world (woah!)
    We could do better
    We could do better
    We could be the greatest band in the world (woah!) Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 1

  • AnonymousI get the impression that this song has to do with, how much we as men feel each time we think we’re finished doing something productive. Like we don’t deserve taking a break that we must keep doing more because society tells us that there’s more we could/ should be doing. Don’t believe it. Just keep doing your best and that’s enough if not they can kiss your a** goodbye. Believe there’s always something you can do more and you’ll live in regret with what you’ve already done. Work hard but don’t let others tell you you’re not doing enough or what you do isn’t enough. Living to please others only brings you more regrets and those who don’t appreciate it will only use you to gain more in there favor. Let them talk and continue glow you’ll be better off. Better off without them.
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