Now I just wanna know Don't just sugar coat Or say it all if you want Now could you tell me like it is? Pretty little fears Music to my ears Bet you from the West Side, mmm, mmm Do better, who better? You better? Been around

Hey I hope you're feeling You smashing young man Beggar's description Of what I've been missing Exploit your position Don't think I didn't listen A little better now Success is so tragic Pain is your gadget

I feel better, better, better, now I'm not down any more I feel better, better, better than before There was a time I was down, down I didn't know what to do I was just stumbling around, around Thinking things could not improve I couldn't look on the

And I don't know how it gets better than this You take my hand and drag me head first And I don't know why but with you I'd dance In a storm in my best dress There's somethin' bout the way The street looks when it's just rained There's a glow off the

I need a gangsta To love me better Than all the others do To always forgive me Ride or die with me That's just what gangsters do I'm fucked up, I'm black and blue I'm built for it, all the abuse I got secrets, that nobody, nobody knows

They just thought I'd know better, better. No one ever told me when I was alone The hardest part this troubled heart has never Yet been through now. We've healed the scars that got their start Inside someone like you now. Well had I known or I'd been

And we'll build this love from the ground up For worse or for better And I will be all you need Beside you I'll stand through the good and the bad We'll give all that we have Now 'til forever it's all of me, all of you Just take my hand And I'll be the

Own my mistakes Not just pass off all the blame I'd just be better now With someone else Next time, I wont suffer this kind of pain If you were here, we could figure this out Then I wouldn't be bitter If I had one call to make I would dial yesterday and

Livin', lovin', she's just a woman Come on, babe on the round about, ride on the merry-go-round We all know what your name is, so you better lay your money down With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac

You said 'hello', I loved you so, I want you to know, I had to let go, I'm falling in love again. I just gotta believe there's something better. I just gotta believe there's something more than you and me. I've just gotta believe, I've just gotta