Jonathan Coulton - Better lyrics

rate me

Where did we go?

When was the moment that we broke in two?

I think I know

In fact I am sure I can blame it on you

I remember the first big surprise

The day you came home with your infrared eyes

I looked inside them, but all I could see

Were tiny reflections of me

But it’s not me it’s you, what you’re turning into

Is some kind of something that I never knew

You used to be OK and I liked you that way

But I don’t think that I like you better

No I don’t think that I like you better

You started out small

Some gills and some wings and a few extra thumbs

Now you’re thirteen feet tall

Even when you’re asleep your machinery hums

And I’m tired of the evenings I spend

Making small talk with your new robot friends

And their stupid insistence on scanning my iris

When they know damn well who I am

And you look like the victim of a surgical crime

A little Darth Vader, a little Optimus Prime

You used to be OK and I liked you that way

But I don’t think that I like you better

No I don’t think that I like you better

So that’s how it goes

Snap your mandibles once to say you understand

Now hold me close

Wait, now that’s too close, you’re crushing my hand

I can tell by that shrieking alarm

That your weapons systems are active and armed

Do me a favor and power them down

Just so we don’t have a scene

And I wish it were different, but we’re just not the same

At least we got someone we know we can blame

You used to be OK and I liked you that way

But I don’t think that I like you better

No I don’t think that I like you better