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
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
this song helped me so much with stopping selfharming and i am happy that i am finally 1 full year clean. edit: Thank you for for all the likes and comments :)) Recovery is not linear but im going strong 3 years now and it will get better. If it isn't better, the battle is not over!!! Sending you all love and strength for your own battles!! :)
@@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.
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.
Getting better is a process. If you are struggling, know you're not alone. I don't know you, but I feel ya. Don't let the world beat you down. I'm with you.
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 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 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 ❤️
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.
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
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 ❤️
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
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.
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
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 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
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
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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!
+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'.
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 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
"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
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.
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
@@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 always love that she moves out with like just a lamp. I haven't seen this vid in years, I used to watch it all the time. I think I was always most focused on the girl with the dog (reminded me of kesha who I liked), but now through my current lens I find the couple hilarious. Idk how they kept a straight face.
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
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.
[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
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
The talking parts are the BEST part of this video. Love the song, but doesn't hit the same without the talking parts. Waiting till I get dressed then putting on the same thing is NOT fixing yourself! LMFAO
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.
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.
After 45 years of having a frozen heart I'm finally trying to thaw it out. This is my life right now. Judgemental, that rings so true. I have frozen time between hearses and caskets. Wow that sums up my mothers death.I was a 15 year old that didn't know what loss was. Then into my life came love. Pure love and I could only love back from my head not my heart. She told me to move from the darkness and that there would be light. I should of taken the steps I've now taken sooner. Now I've lost that love. Lost forever. I wanna get better.
+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?
Yeah, the lyrics always made me picture someone hitting rock bottom then making the conscious effort to do everything they could to, "get better".. I didn't really get that impression as strongly from the video, but it's still a great song nonetheless.
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.
To every single person listening to this song: we're all here from different lives and different circumstances, but all for the same reason. I see you, there. Let's get better.
The fact that this comment section is filled with people saying "X years old, I was Y", and then I see "10 years ago" up top, is just OOF. This song hit right at the right time in college that it kept me still here ten years later.
The best part of this song is that it took me at least three times of viewing before I realized all the patients made up the band at the end. The thought that they were all in his head and created this song, or were people he did counsel consistently that created parts of the music by their harmonic differences, phantoms he related to, or each one is an aspect of his own personal problems he's visualizing doesn't matter. It's just that they are all on a stage at the end performing. Or is it just him? Or is he even?
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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"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.
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 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 song helped me so much with stopping selfharming and i am happy that i am finally 1 full year clean.
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Thank you for for all the likes and comments :)) Recovery is not linear but im going strong 3 years now and it will get better. If it isn't better, the battle is not over!!!
Sending you all love and strength for your own battles!! :)
i’m so proud of you!!
So happy for youuuuu
Congratulations!
congrats :)
I hope one day I can say the same
"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...
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 chase that feeling of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was"
hits home..
PeepsILoveEllie loss as in the meme?
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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.
Getting better is a process. If you are struggling, know you're not alone. I don't know you, but I feel ya. Don't let the world beat you down. I'm with you.
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.
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 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
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 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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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.
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
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 ❤️
"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 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
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.
"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!
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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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
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.
I somehow forgot the name of this song, I legit just searched “Your ketchup toast is ready” and here I am
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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂❤
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 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!
"The timing's great... I just got out of a coma..."
"Are you gonna keep using that?"
Tom jones
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 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.
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!
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'.
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 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
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
This song is currently keeping me alive
Hope your still with us
"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
I have NO idea where I've been BUT... I can't get enough of this very VERY talented band!!!!
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 🥰❤️🌹
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’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.
"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.
i always love that she moves out with like just a lamp. I haven't seen this vid in years, I used to watch it all the time. I think I was always most focused on the girl with the dog (reminded me of kesha who I liked), but now through my current lens I find the couple hilarious. Idk how they kept a straight face.
this song helped me continue with therapy and my meds and reminds me to stop SH’ing
"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
This song made me cry cause like kinda speaks facts. Didn’t know I was broken till I wanted to change
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
And this is how you start a band.
alhjlkarFrance dans
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"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.
Almost 2 years ago, this song came over the radio, and helped me come to terms with needing help in my life.
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.
[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 is our year! Just remember, "every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around."
Hey! It's Soso, and she finally got out of Litchfield! Good to see man
I knew I recognised her
She left with one bag, two fake birds, and a lamp. Priorities.
Emotional support lamp obv.
This song... says words I couldn’t say for myself, whilst simultaneously rocking my world. Thank you for the beauty.
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.
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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...
Just discovered this amazing song. Crazy how music like this can fly under the radar.
Their songs and vidoes give me this old MTV early 90s nostalgia vibe. Love it
6 months clean off a 10 year Oxy habit, and this song helped me every step of the way.
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!❤
The talking parts are the BEST part of this video. Love the song, but doesn't hit the same without the talking parts. Waiting till I get dressed then putting on the same thing is NOT fixing yourself! LMFAO
"I wanna get better" Donna: *TREAT YO SELF*
Bareilles,
You are the thing that makes me BETTER!
I love you
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- 🤢 🤮 🤮
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.
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.
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.
2:58 is my fav. it cracks me up every time
0:58 idk why but I love this part. The little “Oh god!”
I can't understand why this only has 12 million views. It seems like it's worthy of a lot more
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 🖤
After 45 years of having a frozen heart I'm finally trying to thaw it out. This is my life right now. Judgemental, that rings so true. I have frozen time between hearses and caskets. Wow that sums up my mothers death.I was a 15 year old that didn't know what loss was. Then into my life came love. Pure love and I could only love back from my head not my heart. She told me to move from the darkness and that there would be light. I should of taken the steps I've now taken sooner. Now I've lost that love. Lost forever. I wanna get better.
I heard this song the summer before my sophomore year of highschool. I am not better. Thank you Jack Antonoff and Bleachers
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?
This was my anthem when I thought I was losing my mind. Thanks for being there.
Great song! Shame the image of someone standing on the overpass wasnt in the video cos thats a really powerful image for me
I agree! There's definitely great imagery in the lyrics, it would be nice to see another video focusing more on that.
Yeah, the lyrics always made me picture someone hitting rock bottom then making the conscious effort to do everything they could to, "get better"..
I didn't really get that impression as strongly from the video, but it's still a great song nonetheless.
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!
💜💜💜
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.
This song/video IS therapy.
I discovered this band today and am so happy I did.
To every single person listening to this song: we're all here from different lives and different circumstances, but all for the same reason. I see you, there. Let's get better.
The fact that this comment section is filled with people saying "X years old, I was Y", and then I see "10 years ago" up top, is just OOF. This song hit right at the right time in college that it kept me still here ten years later.
Still to this day this song still gives me that tingling feeling. I can’t describe it (only when I blast it obviously)
The best part of this song is that it took me at least three times of viewing before I realized all the patients made up the band at the end. The thought that they were all in his head and created this song, or were people he did counsel consistently that created parts of the music by their harmonic differences, phantoms he related to, or each one is an aspect of his own personal problems he's visualizing doesn't matter. It's just that they are all on a stage at the end performing. Or is it just him? Or is he even?
I think you are correct my friend
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.
OMG! I forgot this was the first place I saw Retta! She's such a great actress!
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.
A friend who I thought was a friend dropped off of the world. This song help me move forward. It continues to help.
This is a very good music video unlike that crap mainstream pop puts out
my desktop channel
lena dunham directed it!!