Better do Better (By Hard-fi)

I always used to like this song but after my ex left i really grew to like it.  I run to it and it makes me feel tough and a bit kick-ass.  It gives me back a bit of fighting spirit when i really need it. 

Sometimes my brain will run off into fantasies of us getting back together, you know ‘the grand reunion scene’ that only happens in the movies.  I try to remember this song then as it reminds me of the crap that my rose tinted brain can block out sometimes.  It reminds me of the moments i was so tried of feeling worthless/pain/hurt/raw/upset/ashamed/rejected that i would go out and pound the streets running, anything that would get him out of my head for a while.  I replaced nonsense romantic notions of a reunion (thats never gonna happen) with me shouting this song out at my ex and it helped.  Sometimes drumming up a bit of anger is exactly whats needed to take the glasses off.

My advice?  Find songs you can take some measure of strength from.  Put the sad love songs down and step away, find more.  Find you.

“Better Do Better”

You’re back, sitting on my doorstep,
ah yeah like nothing happened.
Telling me you’re free and oh,
can you see me again?
Yeah right, you’ve been kicked out,
do you think I’m that stupid?
You say you’re free but didn’t he just oh oh oh…
get tired of you kid.I could not eat for days,
I cried so much my face,
has never been the same…
And now you’re back here with your lies.
I hope you realise…

You think I’m gonna take you back!
You’d better do better than that.
I’ll tell ya how its gonna be,
don’t you never ever come near me.
Let me tell you how I’ve been:
I’ve been hiding from my friends,
hiding from the world,
hiding from myself.
You think you’ll come round here,
start singing in my ear,
girl you damaged me,
I don’t forgive so easily.
You better do better than that!

Your face makes me want to be sick,
ah yeah it’s a physical reaction…
You’d better leave because you see I
Can’t; won’t be blamed for my actions.
Oh, how I ever loved you…
So dumb, how did I ever trust you?
But you and he laughed at me, oh
when you’re laid together.

I couldn’t eat for days,
I cried so much my face,
has never been the same…
And now you’re back here with your lies.
I hope you realise…

I gave you everything I had girl,
but you had to try and take some more.
You went behind my back girl,
cheated on me, I was the last to know.
Did everything we have girl,
meant nothing to ya,
well I was such a fool…
Now you come crawling back girl,
oh let me tell ya I am through with you.

Oh I’m back up off the floor,
and I won’t get hurt no more,
I’ve been waiting for this day when,
you’ll be back here with your lies,
I hope you realise…

Say something, say something…
Say something, say something…

You’d better do better than that!

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What songs make you strong?