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Beartooth – The Better Me (2023) | Track profile | Dork

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Beartooth
The Surface
The Better Me

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The Better Me

Release date: 12th October 2023

From The Surface

Track 4

3:15

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About This Track

'The Better Me' by Beartooth is a 2023 hard rock track from the album 'The Surface'. Its lyrics are a strained vow of self-reinvention, shot through with doubt, injury, and the sense that change keeps costing something. The narrator measures their resolve against how badly they are coping, circling back to the same question of whether tomorrow will really be different, even as they admit they can barely speak. One moment they sound fired up to “make changes”, the next they confess to being burned, wrestling with what those effects do to their spirit.

"The Better Me" is a single by Beartooth, from the album The Surface, released 12th October 2023. The track is 3:15 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Beartooth.

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Beartooth

Beartooth

Lyrics

The Better Me

How many times have I said I was gonna be someone
When I get back onto my feet?
Tomorrow, I'm gonna make changes
'Cause today I can barely speak
Hit 'em with the riff
Woo

I been burned by it, concerned 'bout it
I can't stay my hand
Side effects of it have been soul crushin'
This wasn't part of my plan

I don't wanna suffer
Trying to lie and I try to recover
But I'm back in the gutter
Banking on the same things

How many times have I said I was gonna be someone
When I get back onto my feet?
Tomorrow, I'm gonna make changes
'Cause today I can barely speak
I know how to pull myself out
And it's gonna hurt like Hell to set myself free
Just say it out loud, today's the day I stop fucking around
And be the better me
(And be the better me, oh)

I'm so done with it, and I'll run with it
As long as I can
I'm shutting down with one foot in the ground
And I got no confidence left

Don't need one another
Testify that it's time to recover
I won't die in the gutter
Cold, alone, and unseen

How many times have I said I was gonna be someone
When I get back onto my feet?
Tomorrow, I'm gonna make changes
'Cause today I can barely speak
I know how to pull myself out
And it's gonna hurt like Hell to set myself free
Just say it out loud, today's the day I stop fucking around
And be the better me
Woo

How many times have I said I was gonna be someone?
(I was gonna be someone)
How many times have I said I was gonna be someone?
(I was gonna be someone)

How many times have I said I was gonna be someone
When I get back onto my feet?
Tomorrow, I'm gonna make changes
'Cause today I can barely speak
I know how to pull myself out
And it's gonna hurt like Hell to set myself free
Just say it out loud, today's the day I stop fucking around
And be the better me

Stop fucking around
And be the better me
Stop fucking around
And be the better me

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Track details

From The Surface

3:152023Single

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Album

13th October 2023

Track number

4

Release year

2023

1The Surface
3:54
2Riptide
3:31
3Doubt Me
3:11
4The Better Me
3:15

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Disease (Live)I Was A... LIVE
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Caleb Shomo
Lyricist: Caleb Shomo
Composer: Caleb Shomo
Producer: Caleb Shomo
Drums: Connor Denis
Guitar: Will Deely, Zach Huston
Vocals: Caleb Shomo, HARDY
Additional Production: Oshie Bichar
Bass Guitar: Oshie Bichar
Featured Artist: Hardy (32)
Mastering Engineer: Caleb Shomo
Mixing Engineer: Caleb Shomo
Recording Engineer: Caleb Shomo, James Musshorn

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