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Hands Like Houses
TROPO - EP
Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie)

TRACK

Hands Like Houses

Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie)

Release date: 14th March 2024

From TROPO - EPTrack 23:39

Hard Rock Music Rock

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About This Track

"Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie)" is a track by Hands Like Houses, from the album TROPO - EP, released 14th March 2024. The track is 3:39 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Hands Like Houses.

About the Artist

Hands Like Houses

Hands Like Houses

Lyrics

Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie)

I was better before I met you
Before I met you

I'm always coming down (down), living at the bottom
This pain don't feel the same (same), drowning in the sorrow
The magic you erased, left me so hollow
The smile upon your faces haunt me

Lying again, playing the game
Finding a way to barely escape
Look at your smile, circle the drain
A beautiful cycle

On and off again, bathing in the sin
I can never seem to win (but you love to watch me try)

It felt good to know (to know)
I let you in my soul
I gave you all control (control)
But I was better before, better before
Better before I met you
Before I met you

It felt so good to hate
And see just what you did
Would you chase me down the drain
Or live in your madness

There's no chance that I'll get worse
There's no chance that I won't hurt

Lying again, playing the game
Finding a way to barely escape
Look at your smile, circle the drain
A beautiful cycle

It felt good to know (good to know)
I let you in my soul (my soul)
I gave you all control
But I was better before, better before
Better before I met you

Is it better now?
Do you think you got enough?
Ever wonder why?
I never gave it up
It's so funny how
You ruined me with love
Ain't it funny that
You'll never get enough
You'll never get enough
(Why won't you?)
You'll never take enough

It felt good to know
I let you in my soul

I gave you all control (I gave you all control)
But I was better before, better before
Better before I met you
(It felt good to know)
Before I met you
(I let you in my soul)
But I was better before I met you

Better before I met you
Better before I met you

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From TROPO - EP

3:392024

Listen

Album

Hands Like Houses

14th March 2024

Track number

2

Release year

2024

1Heaven
3:48
2Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie)
3:39
3BLOODRUSH (feat. Emmy Mack)
3:33
4Paradise (feat. Matthew Wright)
3:39

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Hands Like Houses - EP

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Hands Like Houses — Flowers [2:55]
Hands Like Houses — Wicked Game [3:07]
Hands Like Houses — Love & Affection
Hands Like Houses — Love & Affection [3:04]
Hands Like Houses — Heaven (from ATMOSPHERICS (DELUXE)) [3:48]
Hands Like Houses — Paradise (feat. Matthew Wright) (from ATMOSPHERICS (DELUXE)) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — BLOODRUSH (feat. Emmy Mack) (from ATMOSPHERICS (DELUXE)) [3:33]
Hands Like Houses — Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie) (from ATMOSPHERICS (DELUXE)) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — Parasite (from THERMO - EP) [3:03]
Hands Like Houses — Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie) (from ATMOSPHERICS) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — Heaven (from ATMOSPHERICS) [3:48]
Hands Like Houses — Fatally Fractured (from THERMO - EP) [3:29]
Hands Like Houses — The End (from THERMO - EP) [3:47]
Hands Like Houses — ICU (from THERMO - EP) [3:38]
Hands Like Houses — BLOODRUSH (feat. Emmy Mack) (from ATMOSPHERICS) [3:33]
Hands Like Houses — Paradise (feat. Matthew Wright) (from ATMOSPHERICS) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — Hurts Like Hell (from Meso - EP) [3:41]
Hands Like Houses — Obey (from Meso - EP) [3:04]
Hands Like Houses — Chemicals (from Meso - EP) [3:11]
Hands Like Houses — The Devil of Decisions (from Meso - EP) [3:32]
Hands Like Houses — Wildfire (from STRATO - EP) [3:21]
Hands Like Houses — Panic (from STRATO - EP) [3:16]
Hands Like Houses — Hollow (from STRATO - EP) [3:31]
Hands Like Houses — 24 Hours (from STRATO - EP) [3:09]
Hands Like Houses — Heaven (from TROPO - EP) [3:48]
Hands Like Houses — Paradise (feat. Matthew Wright) (from TROPO - EP) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — BLOODRUSH (feat. Emmy Mack) (from TROPO - EP) [3:33]
Hands Like Houses — BLOODRUSH
Hands Like Houses — Better Before
Hands Like Houses — Hurricane [4:14]
Hands Like Houses — Better Luck Next Time
Hands Like Houses — Stranger (from Hands Like Houses - EP) [2:39]
Hands Like Houses — Wired (from Hands Like Houses - EP) [3:01]
Hands Like Houses — Dangerous (from Hands Like Houses - EP) [2:58]
Hands Like Houses — The Water (from Hands Like Houses - EP) [3:14]
Hands Like Houses — Space (from Hands Like Houses - EP) [3:04]
Hands Like Houses — Shimmer (triple j Like a Version)
Hands Like Houses — Shimmer (triple j Like A Version) [2:58]
Hands Like Houses — Dangerous [2:58]
Hands Like Houses — Space [3:04]
Hands Like Houses — Headrush
Hands Like Houses — Sick (from Anon.) [3:36]
Hands Like Houses — Monster (from Anon.) [3:27]
Hands Like Houses — Half-Hearted (from Anon.) [3:10]
Hands Like Houses — Kingdom Come (from Anon.) [2:42]
Hands Like Houses — Tilt (from Anon.) [3:40]
Hands Like Houses — No Man’s Land (from Anon.) [3:24]
Hands Like Houses — Overthinking (from Anon.) [2:53]
Hands Like Houses — Through Glass (from Anon.) [3:26]
Hands Like Houses — Bad Dream (from Anon.) [3:11]
Hands Like Houses — Black (from Anon.) [3:08]
Hands Like Houses — Drift
Hands Like Houses — Division Symbols (from Dissonants) [3:41]
Hands Like Houses — New Romantics (from Dissonants) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — Momentary (from Dissonants) [3:15]
Hands Like Houses — Degrees of Separation (from Dissonants) [3:41]
Hands Like Houses — Colourblind (from Dissonants) [3:43]
Hands Like Houses — Perspectives (from Dissonants) [3:58]
Hands Like Houses — Stillwater (from Dissonants) [3:49]
Hands Like Houses — Motion Sickness (from Dissonants) [3:36]
Hands Like Houses — Bloodlines (from Dissonants) [3:12]
Hands Like Houses — I Am (from Dissonants) [4:20]
Hands Like Houses — Glasshouse (from Dissonants) [4:21]
Hands Like Houses — Grey Havens (from Dissonants) [3:43]
Hands Like Houses — release (A Tale of Outer Suburbia) (from Reimagine) [4:40]
Hands Like Houses — reflect (Developments) (from Reimagine) [4:16]
Hands Like Houses — recollect (Shapeshifters) (from Reimagine) [3:32]
Hands Like Houses — rediscover (No Parallels) (from Reimagine) [3:40]
Hands Like Houses — revive (Introduced Species) (from Reimagine) [4:09]
Hands Like Houses — Introduced Species (from Unimagine) [4:04]
Hands Like Houses — Developments (from Unimagine) [3:39]
Hands Like Houses — A Fire On a Hill (from Unimagine) [5:00]
Hands Like Houses — Fountainhead (from Unimagine) [3:47]
Hands Like Houses — The House You Built (from Unimagine) [3:14]
Hands Like Houses — Oceandust (from Unimagine) [3:41]
Hands Like Houses — Wisteria (from Unimagine) [3:52]
Hands Like Houses — Shapeshifters (from Unimagine) [3:05]
Hands Like Houses — No Parallels (from Unimagine) [3:37]
Hands Like Houses — Weight (from Unimagine) [3:45]
Hands Like Houses — A Tale of Outer Suburbia (from Unimagine) [4:22]
Hands Like Houses — One Hundred (from Ground Dweller) [3:28]
Hands Like Houses — Watchmaker (from Ground Dweller) [4:02]
Hands Like Houses — Lion Skin (from Ground Dweller) [4:19]
Hands Like Houses — A Clown and His Pipe (from Ground Dweller) [3:27]
Hands Like Houses — Starving To Death In the Belly of the Whale (from Ground Dweller) [3:34]
Hands Like Houses — The Definition of Not Leaving (from Ground Dweller) [2:28]
Hands Like Houses — Spineless Crow (from Ground Dweller) [3:34]
Hands Like Houses — The Sower (from Ground Dweller) [4:05]
Hands Like Houses — Antarctica (from Ground Dweller) [4:06]
Hands Like Houses — Don't Look Now, I'm Being Followed. Act Normal (from Ground Dweller) [3:14]
Hands Like Houses — This Ain't No Place For Animals (from Ground Dweller) [4:07]

DangerousHands Like Houses - EP
2:58
Dangerous
2:58
SpaceHands Like Houses - EP
3:04
StrangerHands Like Houses - EP
2:39
The WaterHands Like Houses - EP
3:14
WiredHands Like Houses - EP
3:01
24 HoursSTRATO - EP
3:09
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3:27
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5:00
A Tale of Outer SuburbiaUnimagine
4:22

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