Lyrics

Better Than This - Anne E. DeChant, Vita Dennis 2010


It’s 2am the cops bust in
To that little white house on the dead end street
Yelling and screaming ain’t nothing new
It’s the third time somebody called this week

They haul him out in the flashing lights
She’s standing there crying in her bare feet
Why do you make me act this way
He screams at her when there eyes meet

The officer pulls her aside
Says are you gonna leave him this time
I know it’s tough but I’ll tell you what

It doesn’t get better than this
Nothing’ll change
This isn’t love he’ll swear it is
When he calls you up crying begging you to forgive
But it doesn’t get better than this

They drive him off she walks inside
Says why am I shaking even when he’s gone
I’m tired of being scared and feeling dumb
Of shutting up and being wrong

She says I ain’t gonna take any more
Grabs the money she his under the floor
There’s no more doubt she says I’m getting out

It’s got to get better than this
He’ll never change
This isn’t love he swore he’d quit
She walks out the door wipes the blood off her lip
And says it’s got to get better than this

Is it flying down the highway that makes her feel alive
Or being behind the wheel of the car he said she couldn’t drive

It doesn’t get better than this
Everything’s changing
This is the life she almost missed
Feels like freedom driving into the wind
Oh it doesn’t get better than this