That's weird.. I was just reliving those years when I heard this song.. this song was popular while I was in rehab for heroin and that's where I heard it for the first time. Music from that time period hits me in an entirely different way than anything else
@@MeanBeanComedy the cinematic bits are actually generally there to keep you from ripping it off of youtube. Thats why they only became like super common after youtube. Thats why it feels like it ruins the song a lot of the time cause its explicitly designed to ruin the song.
I was lucky to see them at Bonaroo some years back. To hear hundreds of people screaming "I wanna get better", I will never experience anything quite like that ever again. Incredibly moving
PeepsILoveEllie the first time I heard that thought summed up with "...and now I'm a stranger" got me right in the feels. I'm not sure I remember how that person that used to be me ever felt so optimistic.
"I didn't know I was broken until I wanted to change" are amazing lyrics. Wanting to live a better life is the first step toward change. Then asking for help. Asking for help is a strength! Do it! Asking for help is just saying "I want my life to get better!" Love this song.
I used to listen to this A LOT around the time that I was coming to terms with severe depression and overcoming trauma. I struggled with everything and this song really helped me feel normal and even find humor in it. I just want to wish everyone who listens to this song to cope with something, absolute luck. I’m rooting for you 💛
this is such a good music video, it's realistic and a thing that a lot of people can relate to. being in therapy and not feeling like anything's going to make you Get Better.
It also shows how they're all expecting this magical answer from the therapist and he's just there like "I can't even get my own life together." It's funny but also true. Everyone's just doing their best and no one is going to reach perfect but we can listen to each other and give ourselves and each other a break.
This song means literally so much to me... Sang it to my mom when I picked her up from hospital... Had the best 3 days before she passed... She was like "I really like this song it's catchy"... She was pretty awesome. Xoxo
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's beautiful that you were able to share this with her and have those three days. Three days doesn't sound like much unless you're in the situation. I spent a week holding my dad's hand in the hospital.. even though he was in a coma I still wouldn't give up that time. Blessings to your mom's memory ❤️
Damn aging is so weird. I remember hearing this as a pre-teen being like "wow he must be living a wild party life filled with drugs, sex, and rock and roll" but now I get it. He's just a tired confused 20 something who has no idea what tf is going on and I feel that man.
I’m a musician, grew up on the Beatles, Petty, Springsteen. All of my musical tastes have evolved many times over. I think this is a perfect pop song. Jack is so nonchalant about writing and recording but I think hundreds of people screaming “I WANNA GET BETTER” night after night should clue him in. He did something really special with this song.
I love this song not only bc it's catchy but it's also lyrically really really deep, and the video strikes a great balance between dark humor and serious issues
This song came out a few months before I was sent to a residential eating disorder treatment facility and is one of the only reasons i didn't feel like a failure or give up on myself. Thank you Jack
Eating disorders are so tough (know from experience) and I hope you’re still doing ok. A big, giant mental trap where nobody wins is the only way I can think about it. Remember you’re worth the same if you eat today. Keep trying to get better ❤️
This really should be made into a movie in some way. A therapist's life where they struggle with their own problems, meanwhile also need to bear the weight of everyone who comes in
I am riding high upon a deep depression-i can relate-in time it always gets better-it is part of the total human experience-you live you learn, and you will become better- in your own special way
God, I wish there was a way to like this more than once. Amazing, sad lyrics combined with a catchy uplifting beat and a music video that is actually entertaining and powerful and not just people singing in a field? Sign me the hell up
Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room Calling my name and I follow just to find you I trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weather And I've trained myself to give up on the past 'cause I frozen time between hearses and caskets Lost control when I panicked at the acid test I wanna get better While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines I was losing my mind 'cause the love, the love, the love, the love, the love That I gave wasted on a nice face In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet Counting seconds through the night and got carried away So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars, Hey, I wanna get better! I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better, I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better, I wanna get better I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling Of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was Now I'm a stranger And I miss the days of a life still permanent Mourn the years before I got carried away So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself, Hey, I wanna get better! I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better, I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better, I wanna get better Better, 'cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi I'm screaming from my bedroom window Even if its gonna kill me Woke up this morning early before my family From this dream where she was trying to show me How a life can move from the darkness She said to get better So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet And I crash my car 'cause I wanna get carried away That's why I'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself Hey, I wanna get better! I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better, I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better, I wanna get better
1 year after and I'm here. I'm finally chasing the dreams I had. It's been a year from my recovery and I'm still here. I'm not finished. I'm still working on myself and most days, I feel like shit. I gotta trust that I'll get there. I'll be better...
I listen to this song every day to remind me that my anxiety does not control, and that I can get better. This song helps me change my life. Thank you Jack!
I wanna say the third time I heard this song, it hit hard. I cried and blasted this on repeat. I finally got around to getting help. I didn't realize that I had a few mental illnesses. I am currently doing much better then I was. This song is a reminder that music can change your life.
this is the only song i can listen to when i'm not ok. and i'm not ok a lot. idk about saving but it's comforting me and i couldn't thank jack enough for it
“I didn’t know I was broken until I wanted to change” really resonated with me. I ignored my mental health problems and alcoholism and didn’t want to address them, convincing myself I didn’t have a problem. I finally admitted I had a problem when I went to get help.
My friend died 4 years ago in a bad car wreck.... He just got clean, just bought a house, and just had two little girls... He used to quote this song... I didn't know he was until now and it is hitting me so hard..... Not just that he quoted it but that I needed to hear this
i like the how the music video revolves around jack listening to other people's problems while the lyrics of the song talk about his own. it reinforces the message that yeah, he SHOULD probably start analyzing himself just like he does others... and maybe he'd get somewhere. and he does, when the video shifts to him singing. this song makes me think good things. i love it so much.
I'm starting my journey to get better. This song, as silly as it seems, was a major part of that decision. Love to everyone struggling to get by day to day. Hope to report back successfuly soon!
+Samuel Day The songs pretty much about most of the shitty things that have happened in his life (his sister's death, his cousin's death during the Iraq War, 9/11) and how he 'wants to get better'. Antonoff himself calls it a 'mission statement'.
one doesn't realise this song really helps people like me who thinks every day is a turmoil of millions of different feeling trying to get hold of me that i cannot handle and ends my day with an anxiety
I loved this song as a 10 yr old because it sounded cool, not knowing what it meant, not knowing knowing that someday in the future I would be screaming “I wanna get better” into the sky with every nuance of meaning hanging from it
If anyone is going through things mentally and feels alone, just know that this will get better as long as you’re willing to fight. Even if you aren’t willing to do it for yourself. Do not give up, breathe, know that I don’t even have to know your name or where you’re from but I love you and we’re all fighting together. We will get through this. You are strong, you are beautiful, and you will get better.
When I was at my lowest with my PTSD and depression, I heard this song for the first time, and it really did inspire me to keep going and want to get as healthy as I could.
EVANNNNN you reminded me how much I love this song, and when you said it in your new video I was like 'YES I LOVE THAT SONG OMFG THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME!!!' And here I am. Thank youuu 😂
+Sophie Arabella I think it's supposed to show how the light of his life (her) is walking out on him. Edit: I noticed how the scene of her leaving is the only time he's fully lit in the video. The parts afterward he's mostly only lit on half of his face, showing his feeling of emptiness. Also after the line "...So I put a bullet where I should of put a helmet and crashed my car 'cause I wanna get carried away" (Saying he blew his brains out in his car, so he could at least have a decent funeral) He is completely dark on this point forward from the video, signifying his death. Just added this to support my theory, any other ideas anyone?
sitting outside AA 2 hours before they open at 8am and after the suicide hotline didnt answer listening to this song because i needed to change my life is the most powerful thing ive ever felt. lip syncing, smoking the remnants of a pack of cigarettes realizing i really do want to change and after almost a year living the life i know i deserve, a loving wife, a baby on the way. this song has truly changed my life in a way i never thought possible by music (i never wanted it to mean so much to me imagine being influenced by music lol) but it was and it kept me sitting there for the whole 2 hours so i can change my life for the better. And it worked!~ there is hope people its just 1 more week its just 1 more day from now. trust me a random guy on the internet who had nothing and gained everything even if it feels like nothing is going your way it truly is i only did the 1 AA meeting so this isnt some religious thing but really truly you can do it you know you can and i know you can just hold on please.
[Verse 1] Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room Calling my name and I follow just to find you I trace the faith to a broken down television, and put on the weather And I've trained myself to give up on the past cause I frozen time between hearses and caskets Lost control when I panicked at the acid test I wanna get better [Verse 2] While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines I was losing my mind cause the love, the love, the love, the love, the love That I gave wasted on a nice face In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet Counting seconds through the night and got carried away [Pre-Chorus] So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars "Hey, I wanna get better!" [Chorus] I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better [Verse 3] I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling Of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was Now I'm a stranger And I miss the days of a life still permanent Mourn the years before I got carried away [Pre-Chorus] So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself "Hey, I wanna get better!" [Chorus] I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better I didn't know I was broken 'til i wanted to change I wanna get better, better, better, better I wanna get better [Bridge] Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi I'm screaming from my bedroom window Even if it's gonna kill me [Verse 4] Woke up this morning early before my family From this dream where she was trying to show me How a life can move from the darkness She said to get better So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet And I crash my car cause I wanna get carried away
One of the few songs (and even artists) that how I think of their songs has grown with me. COMPLETELY different than the first time I heard it. AMAZING.
I've loved this song for years and always felt it in my bones. This last year some things finally shifted and I can feel it in my heart too. I don't just want to get better, I'm GOING to.
As someone who started therapy at 19 I sooooooo love this video. I got one therapist that truly was human and very harmful. Their real people too. My 7th grade counselor was a blessing Sister Helen - thank you for yellow walls and Judy Blume books and an ear.
The way I see it, in the video at least, he's sitting down and examining each part of himself that is in need of change. The younger person signifies his childish insolence, the abortion dog girl is his lust, the couple signifies his inability to understand someone else's point if view, while at the same time making every excuse under the sun and the older woman signifies his paranoia in relationships. He's sitting down examining each part of himself. This is a great song, catchy and worth more than just listening to but also understanding.
@@sophiarojas1659 Pretty great!! Out of the ED Recovery program and officially in recovery now! Going back to school, engaged to the best man I’ve ever met, and just living life basically! I still struggle but I’m a whole lot better than a year ago!
I have 9 years, 4 months, and 8 days, of getting better without alcohol or pills... and every morning I still say, Please, and Thank You, and Turn it Over and I Wanna Get (even) Better
you probably did, artists today are very unoriginal and often use songs from 30 years ago by replacing the lyrics and maybe adding a slightly different beat
Skyte100 go listen to "werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon and then "sweet home Alabama" by Kid rock and tell me Im wrong. Sorry artists today aren't original , hate to break to to you.
"Woke up this morning early before my family From this dream where she was trying to show me How a life can move from the darkness She said to get better *So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet* And I crash my car 'cause I wanna get carried away" Jesus christ that line hits like a freight train
This song always make me cry. At first it was mainly the, “i didn’t know i was lonely till i saw your face, i wanna get better, better better better i wanna get better, i didn’t know i was broken till i wanted to change.” And now the lines for his sister make me think of my brother who passed away when i was 18.
Saw these guys at Finsbury park supporting the 1975. Bit skeptical at first but they were awesome, great stage presence and music. Would recommend seeing live.
It's one of those days that doesn't come around too often, but when it does, you refuse to make eye contact but do anyway because you know you have to and you feel okay but hope that it's really okay and not just okay because you're not looking at the floor anymore. Man, I need to sweep.
I only realized this dude was from the band “fun.” just now. I was rewatching We Are Young n I was wondering why that one band member looked so familiar.
I saw this video for the first time in jail. It was a step towards me being better and I didn't remember that until just now. Just became a new favorite. Again.
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I use to listen to this song when i was heavily addicted to heroin. I'm three years clean and sober and and this song gives me chills. I got better. 💖
Congrats Kitty, well done!
That's weird.. I was just reliving those years when I heard this song.. this song was popular while I was in rehab for heroin and that's where I heard it for the first time. Music from that time period hits me in an entirely different way than anything else
MarchKitty1994 me too, I feel so much better now and congratulations to you too
Congrats to both of you for getting clean! I'm super proud and impressed. 💜
Great job MarchKitty , you go girl. Hard work I know. Just over 23 years for me.The song is fantastic and everything is better with a bit of clarity.
This is one of the only music videos I've ever seen where I feel like the cinematic bits actually add to the experience.
That's the whole point to a music video.
@@MeanBeanComedy and they said it's the only one where they feel like it adds value, dumbass
Agreed. I kinda wish the beginning was a real tv show or movie.
@@MeanBeanComedy the cinematic bits are actually generally there to keep you from ripping it off of youtube. Thats why they only became like super common after youtube. Thats why it feels like it ruins the song a lot of the time cause its explicitly designed to ruin the song.
Have... have you never seen Thriller?
"I didn't know I was lonely till I saw your face"
I hope someday I meet someone who makes me feel like that.
Kati e sadly I have but she didn't feel the same way
You and I both.
Kati e reminds me about starving tbh
Kati e but isn't this released first?
Kati e I was just thinking that as I saw your comment... I've been longing for someone for so long now...
If an artist makes you scream 'I wanna get better' at the top of your lungs, that's a good artist
While holding your abortion dog.
This makes sense to me. I totally agrre.
I know this comment is old, but try Nothing But Thieves- I wanna get better :)
ikr!!
I was lucky to see them at Bonaroo some years back. To hear hundreds of people screaming "I wanna get better", I will never experience anything quite like that ever again. Incredibly moving
"I chase that feeling of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was"
hits home..
PeepsILoveEllie loss as in the meme?
I II
lI. I__
Too bad predators ruin their lives
Yeahhhhhhhh glad I’m not the only one
PeepsILoveEllie the first time I heard that thought summed up with "...and now I'm a stranger" got me right in the feels. I'm not sure I remember how that person that used to be me ever felt so optimistic.
"Come back, I will make you an espresso." Genius.
Greatest pickup line ever
How did that not work?!!
@@redundantdna exactly the same question!! :)
True that!
I believe it's pronounced "exspresso", you uncultured swine.
"I didn't know I was broken until I wanted to change" are amazing lyrics. Wanting to live a better life is the first step toward change. Then asking for help. Asking for help is a strength! Do it! Asking for help is just saying "I want my life to get better!" Love this song.
Help.
@@davenotdoug8394 ok
Who are you supposed to ask though
this song helped me so much with stopping selfharming and i am happy that i am finally 1 full year clean.
i’m so proud of you!!
So happy for youuuuu
Congratulations!
congrats :)
I hope one day I can say the same
I'm on a binge/cycle of under appreciated music.. How come I've never heard all this gold??
Tess House any suggestion for good music?
Tess House Same, I just discovered this song today
Please, let us know what else besides "I Wanna Get Better" you've discovered as gold in your binge of under appreciated music.
Check out Max Frost. You will thank me later
TV Girl if y'all wanna get really indie with me. Has a lot of that old-school sampling stuff, upbeat and danceable while being relatably depressing.
I used to listen to this A LOT around the time that I was coming to terms with severe depression and overcoming trauma. I struggled with everything and this song really helped me feel normal and even find humor in it. I just want to wish everyone who listens to this song to cope with something, absolute luck. I’m rooting for you 💛
Love that bud, loving each other and taking care of each other is priority
How did you overcome
Love your positivity, I really needed it today!
Find a good support system @@PJK0PA15
this is such a good music video, it's realistic and a thing that a lot of people can relate to. being in therapy and not feeling like anything's going to make you Get Better.
It also shows how they're all expecting this magical answer from the therapist and he's just there like "I can't even get my own life together." It's funny but also true. Everyone's just doing their best and no one is going to reach perfect but we can listen to each other and give ourselves and each other a break.
This song means literally so much to me... Sang it to my mom when I picked her up from hospital... Had the best 3 days before she passed... She was like "I really like this song it's catchy"... She was pretty awesome. Xoxo
That's such a nice memory you'll have forever. Sorry for your loss ♥️
@@archieclark1139 thank you xoxo ♥️
Sorry for your loss but sounds like she found a happy thought!
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's beautiful that you were able to share this with her and have those three days. Three days doesn't sound like much unless you're in the situation. I spent a week holding my dad's hand in the hospital.. even though he was in a coma I still wouldn't give up that time. Blessings to your mom's memory ❤️
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Damn aging is so weird. I remember hearing this as a pre-teen being like "wow he must be living a wild party life filled with drugs, sex, and rock and roll" but now I get it. He's just a tired confused 20 something who has no idea what tf is going on and I feel that man.
Ellie Bean sometimes it’s the little things
I mean... "While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines, I was losing my mind"
Wait another 20 years and it will make even more sense.
@@squamish4244 fuck, 10 yrs it makes more sense. And that is to say....nothing makes sense. The only thing I'm certain of is my own uncertainty
From what I've read, the song is about losing his sister, he spirals out and he has a dream to which she tells him to get better.
"I didn't know I was broken til I wanted to change."
I think that's like... my new favorite quote.
i also love how into character these people get for the music video. one of my all-time favorites.
It's an abortion dog. I almost died.
I’m a musician, grew up on the Beatles, Petty, Springsteen. All of my musical tastes have evolved many times over. I think this is a perfect pop song. Jack is so nonchalant about writing and recording but I think hundreds of people screaming “I WANNA GET BETTER” night after night should clue him in. He did something really special with this song.
I love this song not only bc it's catchy but it's also lyrically really really deep, and the video strikes a great balance between dark humor and serious issues
This song came out a few months before I was sent to a residential eating disorder treatment facility and is one of the only reasons i didn't feel like a failure or give up on myself. Thank you Jack
Good luck gal
Same, but inpatient for suicidal intention. Best of luck
This song also helped me get through and eating disorder res program
Eating disorders are so tough (know from experience) and I hope you’re still doing ok. A big, giant mental trap where nobody wins is the only way I can think about it.
Remember you’re worth the same if you eat today. Keep trying to get better ❤️
One doesn't simply listen to this song at a normal volume.
Beautifully written my friend
FULL BLAST
Big facts
I blast t hff e living F$$$out of this.
As loud as you can play it, and screaming along with it. Only way.
This really should be made into a movie in some way. A therapist's life where they struggle with their own problems, meanwhile also need to bear the weight of everyone who comes in
That's just the TV show "Frasier".
'hector and the search for happiness ' pops into mind
Check out Gypsy on Netflix! Only one series but so so good!
This song reminds me of “It’s Kind of a Funny Story.” The book is better than the movie.
Me everyday at work as a cashier
I somehow forgot the name of this song, I legit just searched “Your ketchup toast is ready” and here I am
🤣🤣
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂❤
Lmfao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I could have sworn he said Texas toast but... ketchup toast makes the song great but I love Texas toast and who doesn't
Lmao nice
I'm quitting smoking. I'm getting out of depression. I didn't know I was broken till i wanted to change and now. I'm gonna get better.
I am riding high upon a deep depression-i can relate-in time it always gets better-it is part of the total human experience-you live you learn, and you will become better- in your own special way
we'll get better
I want to be fine I don't want to feel sad anymore
i wanna get better
you will im absolutely certain
Nice hope everything goes well
All these comments talking about Soso and no one mentions Donna?!
TREAT YO SELF
YES
Lol right
TREAT YO SELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS TOO FOCUSED ON RETTA TO REALIZE THAT WAS SOSO
YAAAAAS
God, I wish there was a way to like this more than once. Amazing, sad lyrics combined with a catchy uplifting beat and a music video that is actually entertaining and powerful and not just people singing in a field? Sign me the hell up
Pumped up kicks
"Timings great, I just came out of my coma." "Are you gonna keep using that?" I couldn't stop laughing.
I love it too lol.
Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room
Calling my name and I follow just to find you
I trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weather
And I've trained myself to give up on the past 'cause
I frozen time between hearses and caskets
Lost control when I panicked at the acid test
I wanna get better
While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines
I was losing my mind 'cause the love, the love, the love, the love, the love
That I gave wasted on a nice face
In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet
Counting seconds through the night and got carried away
So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars,
Hey, I wanna get better!
I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling
Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling
Of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was
Now I'm a stranger
And I miss the days of a life still permanent
Mourn the years before I got carried away
So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself,
Hey, I wanna get better!
I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
Better, 'cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi
I'm screaming from my bedroom window
Even if its gonna kill me
Woke up this morning early before my family
From this dream where she was trying to show me
How a life can move from the darkness
She said to get better
So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet
And I crash my car 'cause I wanna get carried away
That's why I'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself
Hey, I wanna get better!
I didn't know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better,
I wanna get better
Thanks
1 year after and I'm here. I'm finally chasing the dreams I had. It's been a year from my recovery and I'm still here. I'm not finished. I'm still working on myself and most days, I feel like shit. I gotta trust that I'll get there. I'll be better...
Wouldn't it be Hey I, ?
You're a legend
Thank you❤️❤️❤️
I listen to this song every day to remind me that my anxiety does not control, and that I can get better. This song helps me change my life. Thank you Jack!
I wanna say the third time I heard this song, it hit hard. I cried and blasted this on repeat. I finally got around to getting help. I didn't realize that I had a few mental illnesses. I am currently doing much better then I was. This song is a reminder that music can change your life.
This song inspired me to get help ♡♡♡ this song is a life changer
Hope you're still on the up & up! x
this is the only song i can listen to when i'm not ok. and i'm not ok a lot. idk about saving but it's comforting me and i couldn't thank jack enough for it
“I didn’t know I was broken until I wanted to change” really resonated with me.
I ignored my mental health problems and alcoholism and didn’t want to address them, convincing myself I didn’t have a problem.
I finally admitted I had a problem when I went to get help.
This song is currently keeping me alive
Hope your still with us
My friend died 4 years ago in a bad car wreck.... He just got clean, just bought a house, and just had two little girls... He used to quote this song... I didn't know he was until now and it is hitting me so hard..... Not just that he quoted it but that I needed to hear this
i like the how the music video revolves around jack listening to other people's problems while the lyrics of the song talk about his own. it reinforces the message that yeah, he SHOULD probably start analyzing himself just like he does others... and maybe he'd get somewhere. and he does, when the video shifts to him singing. this song makes me think good things. i love it so much.
I'm starting my journey to get better. This song, as silly as it seems, was a major part of that decision. Love to everyone struggling to get by day to day. Hope to report back successfuly soon!
This song is actually really sad
+Maya Magination Yeah. It is.
+Maya Magination As sad as Jack Dunham?
+Maya Magination is it about suicide?
+Maya Magination Unless you don't speak English. Than it sounds like a happy anthem!
+Samuel Day The songs pretty much about most of the shitty things that have happened in his life (his sister's death, his cousin's death during the Iraq War, 9/11) and how he 'wants to get better'. Antonoff himself calls it a 'mission statement'.
"I didn't know I was broken, till I wanted to change."
Let's go, 2021 is the year we get better.
my girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me on new years lmaoooo maybe next year man.
Well said sir
@@irequirecaffeine I'm sorry man but now you get todo whatever you want whenever you want so what's the down side.
@@irequirecaffeine Well dude, look at it as you have all of 2021 to get better, so the sentiment is still true!
G3t it bdash!
one doesn't realise this song really helps people like me who thinks every day is a turmoil of millions of different feeling trying to get hold of me that i cannot handle and ends my day with an anxiety
Dude same
I loved this song as a 10 yr old because it sounded cool, not knowing what it meant, not knowing knowing that someday in the future I would be screaming “I wanna get better” into the sky with every nuance of meaning hanging from it
I have NO idea where I've been BUT... I can't get enough of this very VERY talented band!!!!
If anyone is going through things mentally and feels alone, just know that this will get better as long as you’re willing to fight. Even if you aren’t willing to do it for yourself. Do not give up, breathe, know that I don’t even have to know your name or where you’re from but I love you and we’re all fighting together. We will get through this. You are strong, you are beautiful, and you will get better.
You are such a kind soul. Thank you for this ❤
Needed this. ❤️❤️
thank you. i love you too and we'll get better
My name is Murray.
🤗✨
This song made me cry cause like kinda speaks facts. Didn’t know I was broken till I wanted to change
"Your ketchup toast is ready."
I thought that was what she said...but I was like "who the hell does that?!?" Then I remembered some people use ketchup for pasta sauce :P
Texas Toast
I think it's just one word ... ketchuptoast ... lol
Had to rewind to make sure I heard right.
I heared cutTED toast tho. Its weird
When I was at my lowest with my PTSD and depression, I heard this song for the first time, and it really did inspire me to keep going and want to get as healthy as I could.
Hope you can achieve the better. Keep doing the good work. I'm cheering for you 🥰❤️🌹
This is our year! Just remember, "every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around."
"The timing's great... I just got out of a coma..."
"Are you gonna keep using that?"
Tom jones
And this is how you start a band.
alhjlkarFrance dans
Is that SoSo from OITNB? And Donna from Parks and Rec? :P Love it even more
+emma n SOSO FROM OITNB. fuck, I was thinking so hard.
"Waiting til I get dressed and then putting on the same thing; is not fixing yourself." Makes me cackle every time
If people see me and I'm not wearing pajama's, they should know I put in effort for them.
I love that actress SOOOOOO much.
@@crookedywookedy8736 who is she? this was like my 80th watch of the video and my first time realizing her acting was like the pinnacle of it lol.
This was a great music video!
Agreed
+Evan Edinger yeah
Evan! :)
+Evan Edinger same evan
EVANNNNN you reminded me how much I love this song, and when you said it in your new video I was like 'YES I LOVE THAT SONG OMFG THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME!!!' And here I am. Thank youuu 😂
the real question: why did she only take the lamp
true lmfao
+Sophie Arabella Lightning for selfies
+Sophie Arabella I may be wrong but I think that it is a play off of the movie The Jerk...
Good question
+Sophie Arabella I think it's supposed to show how the light of his life (her) is walking out on him.
Edit: I noticed how the scene of her leaving is the only time he's fully lit in the video. The parts afterward he's mostly only lit on half of his face, showing his feeling of emptiness.
Also after the line "...So I put a bullet where I should of put a helmet and crashed my car 'cause I wanna get carried away" (Saying he blew his brains out in his car, so he could at least have a decent funeral) He is completely dark on this point forward from the video, signifying his death.
Just added this to support my theory, any other ideas anyone?
Just discovered this amazing song. Crazy how music like this can fly under the radar.
sitting outside AA 2 hours before they open at 8am and after the suicide hotline didnt answer listening to this song because i needed to change my life is the most powerful thing ive ever felt. lip syncing, smoking the remnants of a pack of cigarettes realizing i really do want to change and after almost a year living the life i know i deserve, a loving wife, a baby on the way. this song has truly changed my life in a way i never thought possible by music (i never wanted it to mean so much to me imagine being influenced by music lol) but it was and it kept me sitting there for the whole 2 hours so i can change my life for the better. And it worked!~ there is hope people its just 1 more week its just 1 more day from now. trust me a random guy on the internet who had nothing and gained everything even if it feels like nothing is going your way it truly is i only did the 1 AA meeting so this isnt some religious thing but really truly you can do it you know you can and i know you can just hold on please.
[Verse 1]
Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room
Calling my name and I follow just to find you
I trace the faith to a broken down television, and put on the weather
And I've trained myself to give up on the past cause
I frozen time between hearses and caskets
Lost control when I panicked at the acid test
I wanna get better
[Verse 2]
While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines
I was losing my mind cause the love, the love, the love, the love, the love
That I gave wasted on a nice face
In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet
Counting seconds through the night and got carried away
[Pre-Chorus]
So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars
"Hey, I wanna get better!"
[Chorus]
I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better
I wanna get better
[Verse 3]
I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling
Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling
Of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was
Now I'm a stranger
And I miss the days of a life still permanent
Mourn the years before I got carried away
[Pre-Chorus]
So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself
"Hey, I wanna get better!"
[Chorus]
I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face
I wanna get better, better, better, better
I wanna get better
I didn't know I was broken 'til i wanted to change
I wanna get better, better, better, better
I wanna get better
[Bridge]
Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi
I'm screaming from my bedroom window
Even if it's gonna kill me
[Verse 4]
Woke up this morning early before my family
From this dream where she was trying to show me
How a life can move from the darkness
She said to get better
So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet
And I crash my car cause I wanna get carried away
Friez The Potato up
I like people like you, the good guys who put the lyrics in the comments
Lov u
Thank uuu
Thanks fren
This song... says words I couldn’t say for myself, whilst simultaneously rocking my world. Thank you for the beauty.
I'm surprised this doesn't have more views.
Exactly...
at least a 100 are from me lol
more than 5 million ?
ThermoNuclear GR ya but this was a pretty big song for a couple weeks, just seems like 5 mil is low is all
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the few songs (and even artists) that how I think of their songs has grown with me. COMPLETELY different than the first time I heard it. AMAZING.
Their songs and vidoes give me this old MTV early 90s nostalgia vibe. Love it
I've loved this song for years and always felt it in my bones. This last year some things finally shifted and I can feel it in my heart too. I don't just want to get better, I'm GOING to.
The middle aged lady's performance was amazing. "I'm not crazy!" Whole heartedly believed the need to convince us she's not just making it up.
Her name is Mary Kay Place, she"s been in many films (Big Chill).., and before her acting career took off, she was a songwriter/ singer
As someone who started therapy at 19 I sooooooo love this video. I got one therapist that truly was human and very harmful. Their real people too. My 7th grade counselor was a blessing Sister Helen - thank you for yellow walls and Judy Blume books and an ear.
The way I see it, in the video at least, he's sitting down and examining each part of himself that is in need of change. The younger person signifies his childish insolence, the abortion dog girl is his lust, the couple signifies his inability to understand someone else's point if view, while at the same time making every excuse under the sun and the older woman signifies his paranoia in relationships. He's sitting down examining each part of himself. This is a great song, catchy and worth more than just listening to but also understanding.
I’m in an eating disorder recovery program and bruh this song makes me feel less abnormal and more like just another person going through some stuff.
hey darling! how r u doing?
@@sophiarojas1659 Pretty great!! Out of the ED Recovery program and officially in recovery now! Going back to school, engaged to the best man I’ve ever met, and just living life basically! I still struggle but I’m a whole lot better than a year ago!
@@jej.claess269 Wow, I am so glad for you! My life is kind of a complete mess right now so good to hear it actually will get better.
It's always nice when you hear a song on the radio and get hooked on it, then see the video and wind up liking it even more. :-)
the closing sold it for me :D
:-D
"You gonna keep using that." Prob my fav P&R character. Perfect
Yes!
💜💜💜
So thankful for this song. It's the only song that got me through my brother passing. I love you Justin, I miss you everyday 🖤
She left with one bag, two fake birds, and a lamp. Priorities.
Emotional support lamp obv.
this video's casting is an allstar team of comedy show extras
Phoenix fan!!!!!
Aaron Atkins the perks of having Lena Dunham as your SO
Lena Dun- 🤢 🤮 🤮
Hey! It's Soso, and she finally got out of Litchfield! Good to see man
I knew I recognised her
Still to this day this song still gives me that tingling feeling. I can’t describe it (only when I blast it obviously)
I have 9 years, 4 months, and 8 days, of getting better without alcohol or pills... and every morning I still say, Please, and Thank You, and Turn it Over and I Wanna Get (even) Better
i could've sworn that i had heard this song before when i heard it the first time
you probably did, artists today are very unoriginal and often use songs from 30 years ago by replacing the lyrics and maybe adding a slightly different beat
Steven F Yo no though not really
Steven F "Creating drama needlessly and making this all up"
Skyte100 go listen to "werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon and then "sweet home Alabama" by Kid rock and tell me Im wrong. Sorry artists today aren't original , hate to break to to you.
That's only one artist though, not everyone.
I can’t explain how much I love this song
Still listening to this song after years and years of depression, Still trying to get better
❤
Same here
Praying for you ❤
Same. Best to you! We got this!❤
"Woke up this morning early before my family
From this dream where she was trying to show me
How a life can move from the darkness
She said to get better
*So I put a bullet where I shoulda put a helmet*
And I crash my car 'cause I wanna get carried away"
Jesus christ that line hits like a freight train
This song/video IS therapy.
Isn't that SoSo from Orange Is The New Black in the beginning?
That's where I know her from! It couldn't think of where I saw her before
Yeah! That's her, ahah incredible
Omg thank you!! She was so familiar!
Elizabeth Purvis ur cute
I KNEW I KNEW HER FROM SOMEWHERE, lol thanks, it was bothering me so much
This song always make me cry. At first it was mainly the, “i didn’t know i was lonely till i saw your face, i wanna get better, better better better i wanna get better, i didn’t know i was broken till i wanted to change.” And now the lines for his sister make me think of my brother who passed away when i was 18.
Jack Antonof's sister passed of brain cancer when he was in high school, its been a major influence on his songwriting. I hope you're well
giving hope when you need some. perfect song
I discovered this band today and am so happy I did.
A friend who I thought was a friend dropped off of the world. This song help me move forward. It continues to help.
i listen to this song every day of my life. its whats getting me through everything. i dont think i would still be here without it.
This was my anthem when I thought I was losing my mind. Thanks for being there.
That is how you make a music video.
Word!!
One of my all time favorite songs
Don't think I'll ever get tired of this
Saw these guys at Finsbury park supporting the 1975. Bit skeptical at first but they were awesome, great stage presence and music. Would recommend seeing live.
I'm thrilled this song conjured up such emotion in people. It's good to feel & interpret those feelings. You'll grow more as a person.
holy shit, real music :)
The music video goes along perfectly with the song. I liked the song but now I LOVE the song.
And I miss the days of a life still permanent. Morn the years before I got carried away. Hits home for me.
It's one of those days that doesn't come around too often, but when it does, you refuse to make eye contact but do anyway because you know you have to and you feel okay but hope that it's really okay and not just okay because you're not looking at the floor anymore.
Man, I need to sweep.
Poetry.
That made my day
keith greco and your comment made mine - thanks :)
I wish I wrote that...
This is a very good music video unlike that crap mainstream pop puts out
my desktop channel
lena dunham directed it!!
I only realized this dude was from the band “fun.” just now. I was rewatching We Are Young n I was wondering why that one band member looked so familiar.
I was literally scratching my brain thinking, where have I seen this guy. Thank you.
He is super talented....he produced and co wrote a ton of good albums. Lordes Melodrama,Taylor Swifts folklore etc.
This song almost made me cry, for all the right reasons.
I can't understand why this only has 12 million views. It seems like it's worthy of a lot more
The casting in this is beautiful :)
"I wanna get better" Donna: *TREAT YO SELF*
Almost 2 years ago, this song came over the radio, and helped me come to terms with needing help in my life.
I saw this video for the first time in jail. It was a step towards me being better and I didn't remember that until just now. Just became a new favorite. Again.
I heard this song on an episode of New Girl. Love this song and the video is so fun👍. Glad I discovered this group.
Me and my boyfriend put this song on repeat and screamed this song when we were moving to maine to get sober such an anthem.
So glad I grew up with this song. Just found it back again and I couldn't be happier...
anthem of the human race
Best comment I ever read anywhere, period. Well done.
Eric Kneipfer well thanks dude (: