Feel Better by Penelope Scott

I don't wanna feel better

No one's ever gonna love me like that again

I don't wanna get over you

I wanna sit with you in bed


I don't wanna feel better

I'd give anything to miss you again

I don't wanna get over it

I wanna get under it instead


The book sits on top of clean and messy blankets

On a bed that fucking creaks at night when I get in it late

And late at night I'm chugging Gatorade

And someone's breaking up, and I crack up

Because I know I'll never know just what to say


I'm a communist, a terrorist, an MPDG thot

Or I'm a sad girl in a dorm room

Living out the shady Christian plot

Of "Twilight," or "The Bible," or "The Lover" by Duras

Or I'm just really fucking selfish

And really fucking lost



But someone loved me

Someone fucking loved me

Someone fucking loved me

And I fucking loved them too

Goddamn it, I was worth something

I fucking learned something

I had my cake

And I ate it

It ate me too


And God, no

I don't wanna feel better


(I don't wanna feel better)

(I'd give anything to miss you again)

(I don't wanna get over it)

(I wanna rip it to shreds)


We kept our liquor in a suitcase underneath my bed

And we drank it to go out or just stay in

Or to feel sad, but in a hot way

A way I'll fucking never have again

The sun has begun to set


I'm a socialist, Marxist, libertarian slut

I am an awkward teenage virgin

And I sorta, kinda laugh a lot in bed

But other times I cry or don't make noise at all

I'd give my life to have a room that feels that small


'Cause someone loved me

Someone fucking loved me

Someone fucking loved me

And I fucking loved them too

Goddamn it, I was worth something

I fucking earned something

I had a right to die

A right to live

A right to choose, too


And God, no

Of course I don't wanna feel better

Can you fucking imagine?



No one's ever gonna love me like that again

I don't wanna get over it

I wanna rip the stars to shreds

I don't wanna feel better



I mean of course it hurt

Of course it fucking hurt

It hurt like nothing in the world sometimes

And I was super scared

And we were all a trainwreck

And also somehow making it

I think I might've died there twice

And I would do it all again


I'm a nihilist, a soldier, an OCD machine

Or I'm a healthy baby girl

Who traded sunshine for disease

But when my head hit my cheap pillow

I could tell I had a heart

And I wanna tear this fascist Milky Way apart



'Cause someone loved me

Someone fucking loved me

All my filthy life I loved someone I barely knew

Goddamn it, I was worth something

I fucking learned something

And it felt better in my mouth than fresh, warm food



I guess I loved you

I guess I really loved you

All my filthy life I loved someone I barely knew

And now you're over there

And I'm way over here

What am I gonna do?


I don't wanna feel better

No one's ever gonna love me like that again

I don't wanna get over you

I wanna sit with you in bed



I don't wanna feel better

(I don't wanna feel better)

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