Make You Better

Album: What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (2014)
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  • I want you, thin fingers
    I wanted you, thin fingernails
    And when you bend backwards
    I wanted you, I needed you
    Oh-oh, to make me better

    I'll love you in springtime
    I lost you when summer came
    And when you pulled backwards
    I wanted you, I needed to
    Oh-oh, to make me better
    Oh-oh, to make me better

    But we're not so starry-eyed anymore
    Like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
    And won't it all just come around to make you
    Let it all unbreak you to the day you met her
    But it'd make you better
    It'd make you better

    I sung you, your twinges
    I suffered you, your tattletales
    And when you broke sideways
    I wanted you, I needed you
    Oh-oh, to make me better
    Oh-oh, to make me better

    But we're not so starry-eyed anymore
    Like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
    And won't it all just come around and make you
    Let it all unbreak you to the day that you met her
    And it'd make you better
    Did it make you better?
    Make you better

    And all I wanted was a sliver to call mine
    And all I wanted was a shimmer in your shine
    To make me bright

    'Cause we're not so starry-eyed anymore
    Like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
    Won't it all just come around and make you
    Let it all unbreak you to the days you met her
    But it'd make you better
    It'd make you better Writer/s: COLIN MELOY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing
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