Dashboard Confessional - The Better of Me Lyrics

We went back to the shore

For the crash of the waves

I love that sound and the curious comfort we found in each other

Just like we did back in the day



And the crackling clouds

Of a storm out at sea

And you broke me down just by leaning a little bit closer to me

And yet still somehow leaning away



Well, nobody told me

Just how badly I'd grieve

That I'd dig through my past

That I'd keep looking back

To find out who I wanted to be



Have I forgotten

How I let myself feel?

How the slightest inflections

Were like cuts that don't heal?



And don't be mistaken

That was true, I believe

I was something, I swear it

Before life got the better of me



I think I know how you felt

I didn't know how to leave

But looking back it was easy to think you'd be better off

But I shouldn't have left you that way



Without saying it right

Or even saying it wrong

I just moved on, ripped you out of my chest

And I picked up and left

And just like a ghost I was gone



Well, nobody told me

Come on, kid, take your time

Don't go rushing too fast

'Cause if you lose your path

It's gonna be so hard to find



Have I forgotten

How I let myself feel?

How the slightest inflections

Were like cuts that don't heal?



And don't be mistaken

That was true, I believe

I was something, I swear it

Before life got the better of me



Life is hard

Just a series of battle scars

From some fights we won

And some fights we lost

In a war that we never signed on for

We keep holding our heads high

Or hold each other and just cry

And nobody's wrong

And no lines are drawn

And everyone's here

And nobody's gone



I was something, I swear it

Before life got the better

Before life got the better

Before life got the better of me