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Better Than Me

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What’s my BPM Again? Stand up clap your hands to the beating Of this empty heart never receiving Which way is the fastest way home? I head north on main Passed the place where I got the DUI I’ve never complained for the matter explained What sense was going through my mind If you’d like to know let’s grab a cup of coffee sometime. Around the corner there’s a great place it’s open late. You know I moved here three years ago to this day. And every day away from here I felt like I was wasting way. When I returned Everyone’s habits stayed the same When I returned There was always a drink to claim When I returned I felt like I had been tamed When I left I Lost the best part of this town. Green eyes Blonde hair A smile so devious it caused an angel to stare I’m not frightened of this town But of the future I have found.
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Better Than Me I’ve passed it onto you These fractured relationships No one will take you in Maybe we were broken from the start Impossible to tell As you wrestle with that voice inside your head This pavement turns to dirt The elevation thins out words Is this how we communicate? The ringing in my ears is so delicate I can’t hear my thoughts The closer we are the farther we grow apart I want you to try I want you to succeed I don’t want to see you not living out those dreams. Prove em wrong Shine, grown, and conquer Be better than me Be better than me.
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Glasses 02:03
Glasses Memories of experiences Not loud, but quiet and harsh This life seems formidable The more I try the more I get lost These days are blurring into years The lines on my face show A person that adapting The best way they know. The more I try the more I get lost Wide eyed aspirations I’ve gotta keep these fears at bay I’m tired of letting myself down “Is everything okay?” I’ve gotta turn around I’ve gotta protect my eyes I’m afraid to let you in I’m afraid that you’re dying I’m a set of Claude glasses Your beauty is overwhelming
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Desert Drugs 03:15
Desert Drugs You fell asleep at the wheel Those desert drugs were the real deal The sad fact is we never got to take them anyway Spending Christmas day alone In a world so far away from home I’m okay with running away from everything. These lights of sin are quite enticing While I’m off making all these new memories How could I move on with such ease? It explains a lot about our situation I’m the one that put up the wedge That was building long before this Trying to keep me in line while I was off being so reckless Refusing to make a change Keeping on this self destructive pace My excuses are catching up with me I’ll grow as I wait For a beautiful mistake In the meantime I‘ll gladly walk this desert with you. Yeah I wish we got to take those drugs too.
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Location 02:06
Location Coffin handbill Sleeping with a corpse I don’t want to fucking die anymore I’ve lived, loved, wasted, and died I can’t even say I’ve enjoyed the ride And I’m drinking again Fighting off the urge to call Location, location, location Please tell me relevant lies Where are you? What are you doing tonight? Memories with unfinished business Lingering around this house And everywhere I look A piece of you comes out I’m not in a good place And I’m drinking again Fighting off the urge to call Location, location, location Please tell me relevant lies Where are you? What are you doing tonight? These memories don’t lie So help me through the night this time.
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Flowers 02:48
Flowers Huddled in the closet escaping the sounds of this world I’m broken bankrupt and diseased A bouquet of flowers that you find stomped out on the street At one point I was beautiful So stop reminding me How some days I want to live And others I'd like to die My perspective of this life changes With each sunrise it’s these nights that seem to get the best me Is it the coffee or the alcohol That cause my hands to shake Whatever excuse makes me look better in your eyes Is the one I’m willing to make. As these vices always take ahold I see clarity Remembering what I used to hold So stop reminding me I know it’s unhealthy But what the hell? When I’m wrapped around you I finally care about myself.
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Wet Spot 03:07
Wet Spot You remind me of my favorite authors Talented but never recognized That our lives are as bad as they seem We’re filled with potential The narration comes in weak, boring, and subtle This one has the ingredients to go down in history Because of a heart attack Failed liver Or Suicide Will do just fine. My feet are worn and the binding that held us all together is now tried cracked and torn The blood used to pump, but now it’s clotting well These empty limbs will soon be dead weight An anvil that holds me to this thriving town Where everyone has a point to make Give me the mountains and a lake Picture what could come An image, a tidal wave of regret Your eyes are swollen and red from words I have said A half mile down the road I’ll picture what to write about when I get home A half mile down the road If ignorance is bliss then I’m glad to be alone You remind me of my favorite authors Talented but never recognized And our lives are as bad as they seem We’re filled with potential We are our own worst critics in everyone’s eyes Our greatest works will be published Long posthumously and I’m okay with that. We made it We found our solid ground No axe to fall, no mistakes to try to knock us down We made it This time I am sincere There’s no place I’d rather be Then anywhere but here.

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released May 1, 2023

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Richie: Guitar/Vocals
Eric: Bass/Vocals
Jen: Drums

Recored, mixed, and mastered by Alex Burton at Hog House Studios in June of 2021.

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