Bleachers

Released: September 28, 2015

Featuring: Tinashe

Songwriter: John Hill Jack Antonoff

Producer: Jack Antonoff

[Verse 1 - Tinashe]
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 - Tinashe]
While my friends were getting high and chasing guys 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 - Tinashe]
So now I'm standing on the overpass
"Hey, I wanna get better!"

[Chorus - Tinashe]
I didn’t know I was lonely
'Til I saw your face
I didn't know I was broken
'Til I wanted to change
Get get get get, I wanna get get get get get, I wanna get

[Verse 3 - Tinashe]
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 - Tinashe]
So now I'm staring on the overpass
"Hey, I wanna get better!"

[Chorus - Tinashe]
I didn’t know I was lonely
'Til I saw your face
I didn't know I was broken
'Til I wanted to change
Get get get get, I wanna get get get get get, I wanna get

[Bridge - Tinashe]
Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi
I'm screaming out my bedroom window
Even if its gonna kill me

[Verse 4 - Tinashe]
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

[Pre-Chorus - Tinashe]
So now I'm standing on the overpass
"Hey, I wanna get better!"

[Chorus - Tinashe]
I didn’t know I was lonely
'Til I saw your face
I didn't know I was broken
'Til I wanted to change
Get get get get, I wanna get get get get get, I wanna get

The so-called “80s-nostalgia” indie pop artist Bleachers infuses modern electronica with stylistic elements of the 80s. Headed by Jack Antonoff of Steel Train and Fun. fame, the band’s music is deeply personal, emotive, and lyrically evocative.

Their debut album Strange Desire was released July 10th, 2014, and was mostly written by Antonoff throughout his tour with fun. A very visceral, realized album that addresses death, memory, self-image, and spontaneity, among other themes, Desire showed the world the great potential Bleachers has to become the next pop act to become a household name.

After an EP featuring new versions of Like A River Runs and an album of Desire’s songs covered by female artists in the same vein of the final Steel Train album, the group returned with Gone Now. It featured many of the same themes as the first album.

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